Regional Geography
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Overview
Providing a critique of the practices of academic geography, this book identifies the field's biases and hypocrisy, reveals its self- censorship and rails against its intellectual cowardice. Chapters focus on postmodernism, elitism, the abuse of logic and language, intellectual turf wars, studies of migrant workers, feminist conceits, and New Orleans. Symanski teaches ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California at Irvine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OREditorials
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A work strongly critical (in various places, bitterly critical) of the work of numerous distinguished American geographers, both living and deceased. The work is reasoned, if not always reasonable, and reveals something of the anatomy of a profession.Booknews
Providing a critique of the practices of academic geography, this book identifies the field's biases and hypocrisy, reveals its self- censorship and rails against its intellectual cowardice. Chapters focus on postmodernism, elitism, the abuse of logic and language, intellectual turf wars, studies of migrant workers, feminist conceits, and New Orleans. Symanski teaches ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California at Irvine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
March 31, 2002
Publisher
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2002.
Pages
277
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780815607328