Postmodern Geography Theory and Praxis

This edited collection brings together some of the most authoritative voices in contemporary debates in geography: Michael Dear, Giuseppe Dematteis, Franco Farinelli, Cindy Katz, Don Mitchell, Gunnar Olsson, Neil Smith and Edward Soja to address the question of 'praxis' within broader discussions of the postmodern in geography.

Claudio Minca is Associate Professor in Political and Economic Geography at the University of Venice and teaches an annual course on "Postmodern Cities and Spaces" at Venice International University. He has written widely on geographical representations and the postmodern turn in geography and is the author of Spazi Effimeri (1996) and the editor of Introduzione alla Geografia Postmoderna (2001).

List of Figures

vii

List of Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xii

Prelude

xiv

Claudio Minca

The Postmodern Turn

1

(36)

Michael Dear

Cities...

Exploring the Postmetropolis

37

(20)

Edward W. Soja

Postmodern Geographical Praxis? The Postmodern Impulse and the War against Homeless People in the `Post-justice' City

57

(36)

Don Mitchell

Hiding the Target: Social Reproduction in the Privatized Urban Environment

93

(20)

Cindi Katz

Scales...

Shifting Cities

113

(16)

Giuseppe Dematteis

Adventures of a Barong: A Worm's-eye View of Global Formation

129

(18)

Steven Flusty

Rescaling Politics: Geography, Globalism, and the New Urbanism

147

(22)

Neil Smith

Mappings...

Millennial Geographics

169

(27)

Denis Cosgrove

Luciana L. Martins

Postmodern Temptations

196

(30)

Claudio Minca

Paradoxes of Modern and Postmodern Geography: Heterotopia of Landscape and Cartographic Logic

226

(12)

Vincenzo Guarrasi

Mapping the Global, or the Metaquantum Economics of Myth

238

(17)

Franco Farinelli

Washed in a Washing Machine

255

(27)

Gunnar Olsson

Afterword

282

(13)

Edward W. Soja

Index

295

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Postmodern Geography Theory and Praxis

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