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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829065803321

Autore

Santos Mílton

Titolo

For a new geography / / Milton Santos ; translated by Archie Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4529-6323-1

1-5179-0908-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages)

Disciplina

910.01

Soggetti

Geography - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in 1978, For a New Geography marked the emergence of Milton Santos as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and a foremost global theorist of space"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book was originally published in Portuguese as Por uma Geografia Nova: Da Critica da Geografia a uma Geografia Critica. copyright Editora da Universidade de São Paulo 1978."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Translator's introduction: The newness of geography / Archie Davies -- Introduction : from a critique of geography to a critical geography -- The founders : scientific pretensions -- Philosophical inheritance -- Postwar renovation : "a new geography" -- Quantitative geography -- Models and systems : the ecosystems -- The geography of perception and behavior -- The triumph of formalism and ideology -- The balance of the crisis : geography, widow of space -- A new interdisciplinarity -- An attempt to define space -- Space : reflection of society or social fact? -- Space : a factor? -- Space as social order -- In search of a paradigm -- Total space in our time -- State and space : the nation-state as a geographical unit of study -- The ideas of totality and social formation and the renovation of geography -- The idea of time in geographical studies -- Conclusion: Geography and the future of man.

Sommario/riassunto

"Originally published in 1978, For a New Geography marked the emergence of Milton Santos as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and a foremost



global theorist of space"--