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Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity

ISBN: 978-0-631-19467-5

July 1997

Wiley-Blackwell

420 pages

Description
In this book, the world's leading spacial theorists provide new accounts of the central questions and issues in social-spacial theory with critical perspectives on the post-modern condition.
About the Author
Georges Benko is Professor of Geography at the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). He is a member of the editorial boards of Espaces et Societes and GeoJournal and editor of the series Geographies en Liberté and Theorie Sociale Contemporaine, both published by l'Harmattan in Paris. He is the author of Geographie des Technopoles (Masson), co-author (with Alain Lipietz) of Les Regions qui Gagnent and editor of various books on Industrial Change and Social Theory.

Ulf Strohmayer is currently lecturer in human geography at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is the author of numerous articles, co-editor of two books and author, together with Matthew Hannah, of Gnostic Materialism: Cosmology and the Ruins of Social Theory.

Features
  • The world's leading geographical theorists focus on the interactions of space, difference, culture and identity
  • A unique synthesis of social and spatial theory
  • Locks into current debates on gender, marginality and discourse, and brings a welcome perspective on realities of experience and everyday life.