Post-structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space by Jon Murdoch

By Jon Murdoch

Post-structuralist Geography is a hugely obtainable creation to post-structuralist conception that severely assesses how post-structuralism can be utilized to review house and position.

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  • Offers an intensive appraisal of the paintings of key post-structuralist thinkers, together with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Bruno Latour
  • Provides case reviews to explain, illustrate, and observe the theoryВ 
  • Presents boxed summaries of complicated arguments which - with the enticing writing variety - supply a transparent assessment of post-structuralist ways to the learn of area and position

Comprehensive and understandable - speaking a brand new and fascinating time table for human geography - Post-structuralist Geography is the students’ crucial advisor to the theoretical literature.

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Relations between relations therefore become important. The shape of space can be seen as the ‘expression’ of ‘underlying’ relations; but it can also be seen as the suppression of all those other relations that might have gained some amount of permanence had they not ‘flickered out of existence’ in Thrift’s (2004a: 91) telling phrase. ‘Consensual’ because relations are usually made out of agreements or alignments between two or more entities; ‘contested’ because the construction of one set of relations may involve both the exclusion of some entities (and their relations) as well as the forcible enrolment of others.

1991: 196–7), in a general introductory text, say that scientific or narrative writings ‘risk imposing order and indifference upon the subject matter being addressed’. The term ‘post-structuralism’ could easily be exchanged for ‘postmodernism’ in this passage. 2. One exception might be the historical geographies of Ferdinand Braudel. Along with other members of the so-called Annales School, Braudel produced histories rooted not in the actions of individuals or social movements but in geography, climate, terrain and natural resources.

3. Space is never closed, never fixed. In other words, space is always in the process of becoming as relations unfold:‘there are always – at any moment “in time” – connections yet to be made, juxtapositions yet to flower into interaction (or not, for not all potential connections have to be established), relations which may or may not be accomplisheded’ (Massey, 1998: 28). These three points reinforce Harvey’s argument that spaces are (provisionally) stabilized out of complex, open-ended processes.

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