For a New Geography
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For a New Geography

  1. 266 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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For a New Geography

About this book

For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography

Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space.

Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography’s past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field’s foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside.

Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography. 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Translator’s Introduction: The Newness of Geography
  6. Introduction: From a Critique of Geography to a Critical Geography
  7. Part I: The Critique of Geography
  8. Chapter 1. The Founders: Scientific Pretensions
  9. Chapter 2. Philosophical Inheritance
  10. Chapter 3. Postwar Renovation: “A New Geography”
  11. Chapter 4. Quantitative Geography
  12. Chapter 5. Models and Systems: The Ecosystems
  13. Chapter 6. The Geography of Perception and Behavior
  14. Chapter 7. The Triumph of Formalism and Ideology
  15. Chapter 8. The Balance of the Crisis: Geography, Widow of Space
  16. Part II: Geography, Society, Space
  17. Chapter 9. A New Interdisciplinarity
  18. Chapter 10. An Attempt to Define Space
  19. Chapter 11. Space: Reflection of Society or Social Fact?
  20. Chapter 12. Space: A Factor?
  21. Chapter 13. Space as Social Order
  22. Part III: For a Critical Geography
  23. Chapter 14. In Search of a Paradigm
  24. Chapter 15. Total Space in Our Time
  25. Chapter 16. State and Space: The Nation-State as a Geographical Unit of Study
  26. Chapter 17. The Ideas of Totality and Social Formation and the Renovation of Geography
  27. Chapter 18. The Idea of Time in Geographical Studies
  28. Conclusion: Geography and the Future of Man
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index
  33. About the Author

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