Progress: Geographical Essays

Sack

ISBN 10: 0801868726 / ISBN 13: 9780801868726

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press -, 2002

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Inhaltsangabe:

"The connection between geography and progress is fundamental," writes Robert Sack in the introduction to the present volume. Touching on both moral and material progress, six of the world's leading geographers and environmental historians explore differing aspects of this connection. Thomas Vale discusses whether progress is discernible in the natural realm; Kenneth Olwig examines fundamental changes that occurred to the notion of progress with the rise of modernity, while David Lowenthal and Yi-Fu Tuan discuss recent geographical changes that have resulted in an increasing societal disenchantment and anxiety. Nicholas Entrikin looks at progress as "moral perfectibility, and its connection to democratic places," a theme which Robert Sack further explores by prescribing ways in which geographers and citizens can evaluate and create places that increase our awareness of reality in its variety and complexity.

Contributors: J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California-Los Angeles; David Lowenthal, University College, London; Kenneth Olwig, University in Trondheim, Norway; Robert David Sack, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas R. Vale, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Robert David Sack is Clarence J. Glacken and John Bascom Professor of Geography and Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Homo Geographicus: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern and Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's World: A Relational Framework for Geographical Analysis, both available from Johns Hopkins.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Progress: Geographical Essays
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press -
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good