For a new geography

• Verfasst von: Santos, Milton [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: For a new geography
• Mitwirkende: Davies, Archie [ÜbersetzerIn] [VerfasserIn einer Einleitung]
• Werktitel: Por uma geografia nova
• Verf.angabe: Milton Santos ; translated and with an introduction by Archie Davies
• Verlagsort: Minneapolis
• Verlag: London
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: xxxv, 225 Seiten
• Fussnoten: "This book was originally published in Portuguese as Por uma Geografia Nova: Da Critica da Geografia a uma Geografia Critica. copyright Editora da Universidade de São Paulo 1978." ; Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0908-6
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0907-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Geografie / (s)Wissenschaftstheorie
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Santos, Milton: For a new geography. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021] |(DLC)2021022889
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Santos, Milton, 1926 - 2001: For a new geography. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (xxxv, 225 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: RB 10038
• K10plus-PPN: 1766065120

Abstract

Translator's introduction: The newness of geography / Archie Davies -- Introduction : from a critique of geography to a critical geography -- The founders : scientific pretensions -- Philosophical inheritance -- Postwar renovation : "a new geography" -- Quantitative geography -- Models and systems : the ecosystems -- The geography of perception and behavior -- The triumph of formalism and ideology -- The balance of the crisis : geography, widow of space -- A new interdisciplinarity -- An attempt to define space -- Space : reflection of society or social fact? -- Space : a factor? -- Space as social order -- In search of a paradigm -- Total space in our time -- State and space : the nation-state as a geographical unit of study -- The ideas of totality and social formation and the renovation of geography -- The idea of time in geographical studies -- Conclusion: Geography and the future of man.

Abstract

"Originally published in 1978, For a New Geography marked the emergence of Milton Santos as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and a foremost global theorist of space"--