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A student's introduction to geographical thought : theories, philosophies, methodologies / Pauline Couper.

Couper, Pauline (författare)
ISBN 9781446282960
Publicerad: London : SAGE, 2015
Copyright: ©2015
Engelska xvi, 256 pages
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Before we get there: Introducing philosophy and theory -- 1.2. On arrival: What are we studying? -- Exercise 1.1: Things not to do at the beach -- 1.3. Conclusion: -isms and geography -- Exercise 1.2: Revising -isms -- 2.1. Introduction: Geography and 'science' -- Exercise 2.1: What do you think of as 'science'? -- Exercise 2.2: What does 'scientific' geography look like? -- 2.2. The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte -- 2.2.1. The development and organisation of knowledge -- 2.2.2. Method in the natural sciences and the foundation of 'social physics' -- 2.3. The Vienna Circle: Logical positivism -- 2.3.1. On language and meaning: Basic principles of logical positivism -- Exercise 2.3: The verification principle of meaning in practice -- 2.4. Positivist geography and its critics -- 2.5. Positivism in practice -- 2.5.1. A spatial analysis of civil war -- Exercise 2.4: Identifying some positivist characteristics in physical geography research -- 2.6. Positivism at the beach -- 2.7. Positivism in summary -- 3.1. Popper's critical rationalism -- 3.1.1. The problem of demarcation -- 3.1.2. The problem of induction -- 3.1.3. Deductive falsification of theories -- 3.1.4. Science's social dimension -- 3.2. Critical rationalism in practice -- 3.2.1. Effects of beaver dams on stream ecosystem -- 3.2.2. The myth of Martin Luther King Street -- Exercise 3.1: Ethnic diversity and social trust in urban neighbourhoods -- 3.3. Critical rationalism at the beach -- 3.4. Critical rationalism's place in geography -- 3.5. Criticisms of critical rationalism -- 3.5.1. The problem of identifying the source of error -- 3.5.2. The problem of theory preference -- 3.5.3. The problem of what constitutes a 'severe test' -- 3.5.4. The social nature of scientific practice -- 3.6. Critical rationalism in summary -- 4.1. Marxism -- 4.2. Marxism in geography -- 4.2.1. The globalisation of wine production -- Exercise 4.1: The political economy of aggregates extraction: 'Pits, quarries and climate change' -- 4.3. Critical realism -- 4.3.1. Transcendental realism: Understanding science -- 4.3.2. Critical naturalism: A cautious application of natural science methods to social science -- 4.4. Critical realist geographies -- 4.5. Critical realism in practice -- 4.5.1. Violation of national pesticide regulations in the global food chain -- 4.6. Marxism and critical realism at the beach -- 4.7. Some criticisms -- 4.8. Marxism and critical realism in summary -- 5.1. Introducing phenomenology -- 5.1.1. Beginning with Husserl's phenomenology -- 5.1.2. Variations in phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty -- 5.2. Phenomenology and humanistic geography of the 1970s -- 5.2.1. Methods in humanistic geography -- 5.3. A more recent return to experience -- 5.3.1. Actor Network Theory (ANT) -- 5.3.2. Non-representational theories -- Exercise 5.1: Researching the materialities of sugar-cane fields -- 5.4. Phenomenology, or post-phenomenology, at the beach -- 5.5. Phenomenology and post-phenomenology in summary -- 6.1. Introducing social constructionism -- 6.1.1. How are things socially constructed? -- 6.1.2. Social constructionism in geography -- 6.1.3. The social construction of academic knowledge -- 6.2. Feminism -- 6.2.1. Some starting points -- 6.2.2. Feminism and geography -- Exercise 6.1: Gender in your local context -- 6.2.3. Feminist geographies -- 6.2.4. Feminist geographies in practice -- Exercise 6.2: Where is the 'global city'? -- 6.3. Feminism at the beach -- 6.4. Social constructionism and feminism in summary -- 7.1. Structuralism: A useful departure point -- 7.2. Poststructuralism -- 7.2.1. Derrida: Difference and deconstruction -- 7.2.2. Foucault: Connecting knowledge with power -- Exercise 7.1: The model prison -- Exercise 7.2: Self-regulation according to norms -- Exercise 7.3: National identity on the Fourth Plinth -- 7.3. Postmodernism -- 7.3.1. Postmodernism as style -- 7.3.2. Postmodernism as epoch -- 7.3.3. Postmodernist theory and method -- 7.4. Poststructuralism and postmodernism in geography -- 7.4.1. Rapa Nui/Easter Island: A postmodern analysis of a postmodern place? -- 7.4.2. Discipline and control in the classroom -- 7.4.3. Beyond poststructuralism and postmodernism -- 7.5. Postmodernism and poststructuralism at the beach -- 7.6. Structuralism, poststructuralism and postmodernism in summary -- 8.1. Introducing complexity: Emergence and interdependence -- Exercise 8.1: Emergence and interdependence in action -- 8.2. Key ideas -- 8.2.1. Chaos -- 8.2.2. Path dependence -- 8.2.3. Attractors -- 8.2.4. Self-organisation and self-organised criticality -- 8.2.5. Fractals -- Exercise 8.2: Measuring the coast -- 8.2.6. Implications of complexity -- 8.3. Researching complexity -- 8.3.1. Initial description or identification of complexity -- 8.3.2. Analysing the consequences of a model -- 8.3.3. Testing models against empirical data -- Exercise 8.3: Characterising the rate of deforestation -- 8.4. Complexity at the beach -- 8.5. Complexity theory in summary -- 9.1. Introduction: Understanding ethics -- 9.1.1. Aristotle's virtue ethics -- Exercise 9.1a: What would a virtuous person do? -- 9.1.2. Kant's deontological ethics -- Exercise 9.1b: What are the motivations? -- 9.1.3. Bentham's utilitarian ethics -- Exercise 9.1c: What are the consequences? -- 9.1.4. Feminist ethics of care -- Exercise 9.1d: What would a caring person do? -- 9.2. Ethics and geography -- 9.2.1. Universality versus particularity: Normativity versus difference -- 9.2.2. How far should our moral concerns extend? -- 9.3. Ethics and geographical research -- 9.3.1. Research integrity and research ethics -- 9.3.2. Research and society -- 9.4. Moral philosophy and ethics in summary -- 10.1. Back to the beach! A summary of philosophies and theories in methodological terms -- 10.2. Some thoughts on human geography and physical geography -- 10.2.1. Ontological and epistemological differences -- 10.2.2. A socially constructed 'divide' -- 10.2.3. Is this the geography we need?.

Ämnesord

Geography  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)
Geography  -- Methodology. (LCSH)
Geografi  -- teori, filosofi (sao)
Geografi  -- metodik

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910 (DDC)
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