GEOG 241 Lecture Notes - Steelmaking, Dialectic, Empiricism
25 Feb 2014
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Society is : spatial; secrete spaces, historical, contextual (meanings, written, readings, authors, dynamic, contested (human beings are prone to debates, arguments, disagreements, lives can be at stake. But : marxist though subject to powerful critiques, failure to socialist inspired states, geography become more professional (1980s, rise of the yuppie, electronic music, more competition for jobs1, some radicals joined the establishment", but still many self described radical geographers today. Postmodern geography: differences between and in social groups: different voices, experiences, politics, class, gender, sexuality, age, disability, race, ethnicity, etc. are socially constructed contested, resisted and (re) negotiated, ethics of the other" e. g. multiculturalism and deconstruction, comes from french social theory, we have to have something different from us in order to establish identity, says opposing difference is useless and ineffective, a good way of organizing society is empathizing with other groups.
