By Jon Murdoch
Post-structuralist Geography is a hugely available creation to post-structuralist idea that significantly assesses how post-structuralism can be utilized to check area and position.
Key Features
- Offers a radical appraisal of the paintings of key post-structuralist thinkers, together with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Bruno Latour
- Provides case experiences to explain, illustrate, and practice the theoryВ
- Presents boxed summaries of complicated arguments which - with the attractive writing variety - supply a transparent review of post-structuralist ways to the research of house and position
Comprehensive and understandable - speaking a brand new and intriguing schedule for human geography - Post-structuralist Geography is the students’ crucial advisor to the theoretical literature.
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As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his knowledge and power are to be something else. Nobody knows this knowledge; no one wields this power. Yes, the forms of knowledge and of power since the nineteenth century have served the bourgeoisie above all others […] But those ruling classes don’t know how they do it, nor could they do it without the other terms in the power relation – the functionaries, the governed, the repressed, the exiled – each willingly or unwillingly doing its bit.
2 Some core features of Foucault’s genealogical approach: • Discourse becomes deeply embedded in the materiality of given spaces to the point where it might be argued ‘material arrangements’ generate the ‘discursive’ aspects of these spaces. • These material and discursive spaces act upon the bodies of human subjects. Thus subjectivity is constituted spatially, in some real sense it is made by the spatial configurations in which the subjects (that is, inmates) find themselves. • Thus, ‘external’ discourses are ‘internalized’ to the extent that these discourses help to produce subjectivity.
Yet, we must now accept that differences are always spatialized, always positioned in space. 3. As space is a process of becoming, it is always in the process of being made and is always (likely to be) unfinished:‘there are always loose ends in space’ (Massey, 1998: 37). Moreover, because space is made from competing and co-existing relations, it holds an unpredictable character that can potentially generate ‘new spaces, new identities, new relations and differences’ (Massey, 1998: 38). Openness and newness thus go hand in hand.