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The concepts of, as well as practices related to, space, place, and mapping have become key elements of literary and cultural studies in the past few decades.What some have called the spatial turn in recent critical theory has highlighted the significance of spatiality in comparative and world literature, among other areas, as the relations between geographical knowledge and cultural Download chapter PDF Further Reading. The clearest summary of Harvey's work will be found in his 'The Geopolitics of Capitalism', in Derek Gregory and John Urry (eds) Social Relations and Spatial Structures (London: Macmillan, 1985) pp. 128-163. (Many of the essays in this book are directly relevant to the themes addressed in the present chapter). CrossRef Google Scholar For more Derek Gregory is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His previous publications include The Colonial Present (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and Geographical Imaginations (Blackwell Publishing, 1995). Derek Gregory is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His previous publications include The Colonial Present (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and Geographical Imaginations (Blackwell Publishing, 1995). Table of Contents. GO TO PART. Export Citation(s) Export Citations The Colonial Present by Derek Gregory Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 367 pp, paperback £16.99 ISBN 1 57718090 9 (paperback) In The Colonial Present Derek Gregory traces the imaginative geographies that connect the on going military and symbolic violence in Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq. This is a timely intervention, following a series of works that have sketched the geographies of contemporary "An essential synopsis of essential readings that every human geographer must read. It is highly recommended for those just embarking on their careers as well as those who need a reminder of how and why geography moved from the margins of social thought to its very core." —Barney Warf, Florida State University "Key Texts in Human Geography will surely become a 'key text' itself. by Fabulous Printers Pte Ltd 3 2007 ISBN: 978--631-23509-5 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN: 978--631-23510-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 978--631-23510-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) Contents Notes on Contributors vii 1 Introduction: Troubling Geographies 1 Derek Gregory 2 Between Deduction and Dialectics: David Harvey on Knowledge 26 Trevor Barnes 3 David Harvey and Marxism 47 Alex In this chapter I explore some of the relations between human geography and social theory. I do not want to be drawn into any boundary disputes over the first of those terms — there have been too many deadening proclamations about the 'nature' or 'spirit and purpose' of geography — but I do need to say something about the second because I do not use it as a synonym for sociology or 10. print. Studies in contemporary German social thought. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999. Harvey, David. « Evaluation: Geographical Knowledge in the Eye of Power: Reflections on Derek Gregory's Geographical Imaginations ». Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, no 1 (1995): 160-64. ———. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. 2e éd. Verso print, and thereby privilege, certain places over others. %e Houston Daily Post demon-strates how a middling r