By Jon Murdoch
Post-structuralist Geography is a hugely obtainable advent to post-structuralist conception that seriously assesses how post-structuralism can be utilized to check house and position.
The textual content comprises:
- a radical appraisal of the paintings of key post-structuralist thinkers, together with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Bruno Latour
- case stories to clarify, illustrate, and observe the idea
- boxed summaries of advanced arguments which - with the attractive writing sort - supply a transparent evaluate of post-structuralist techniques to the examine of area and position.
Comprehensive and understandable - speaking a brand new and intriguing time table for human geography - Post-structuralist Geography is the scholars' crucial advisor to the theoretical literature.
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