For a New Geography av Milton Santos

349,-

Kjøp

<P><B>For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography</B><BR/><BR/> Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, <I>For a New Geography</I> is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space.</P><P>Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, <I>For a New Geography</I> functioned as a bridge between geography’s past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field’s foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he i