Remaking Human Geography

Abstract

Introduction: Humanism and historical materialism in contemporary social geography, Suzanne Mackenzie and Audrey Kobayashi. Part 1 Issues: the social and economic imperatives of restructuring - a geographic perspective, John Bradbury restructuring the relations of work and life - women as environmental actors, feminism as geographic analysis, Suzanne Mackenzie theory, hypothesis, explanation and action - the example of urban planning, Jeanne M. Wolfe synthesis in human geography - a demonstration of historical materialism, Richard Harris. Part 2 Methods: quantitative techniques and humanistic historical materialist perspectives, Geraldine Pratt theory and measurement in historical materialism, Simon Foot et al agency in economic geography and the theories of economic value, Trevor Barnes responsive methods, geographical imagination and the study of landscape, Edward Relph a critique of dialectical landscape, Audrey Kobayashi. Part 3 Directions: historical considerations on humanism, historical materialism and geography, Denis Cosgrove on the dialogue between humanism and historical materialism in geography, Andrew Sayer fragmentation, coherence and limits to theory in human geography, David Ley.