By Paul J Cloke, Ron Johnston
Areas of Geographical concept examines key rules – like house and position - which tell the geographic mind's eye. The textual content explains the importance of those binaries within the structure of geographic idea and exhibits what number of those binaries were interrogated and reimagined in additional contemporary geographical pondering. A attention of those binaries will outline the thoughts and situate scholars within the most present geographical arguments and debates. The textual content should be required analyzing for all modules at the philosophy of geography and on geographical idea.
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Qxd 26 8/14/2004 12:22 PM Page 26 SPACES OF GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT on barriers, practices and regulations. What Law succeeds in demonstrating here is the ways in which the explosion – one specific, calamitous event – broke down the barriers that framed a specific scientific project (the TSR2), as well as those between this project and Parliament and between the project and public debate. Correspondingly, so he argues, much of the ‘work’ that went on following the explosion was not just about establishing scientific causes and solving these, but about struggling to restore and rebuild previous barriers.
But what words also staked out the ground for – and here I am thinking rather more about certain performances in words, specifically the various public speeches and broadcasts of George W Bush and Tony Blair on the one hand and the very different ones of, say, General Musharraf of Pakistan – was a connection between meaning frameworks, human action and the reinstatement of the established world order; notably a highly particular form of largely US military action that saw the repeated bombing of Afghanistan through the autumn and winter of 2001.
FURTHER READING Abrams, P. (1983) Historical Sociology. Milton Keynes: Open University Press. esp. Preface and Ch. P. (1963) The Making of the English Working Class. Harmondsworth: Penguin. esp. Preface Two of the most influential earlier accounts of agency/structure, in which agency is understood as human agency. qxd 8/14/2004 12:22 PM Page 39 Agency : Structure 39 Thrift, N. (1983) ‘On the determination of social action in time and space’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 1: 23–57 A good illustration of the way these ideas about human agency came into human geography.