Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography

Rob Sullivan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-2009-5 (ISBN)

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Offers an investigation of how geography is informed by speech act theory and performativity. Starting with a critical analysis of how JL Austin's speech act theory probed the permeability between fact and fiction, this title explores the fictional aspects within scientific knowledge.

Geography Speaks is an investigation of how geography is informed by speech act theory and performativity. Starting with a critical analysis of how J.L. Austin's speech act theory probed the permeability between fact and fiction, it then assesses oppositional interpretations by John Searle and Jacques Derrida, and in doing so, it explores the fictional aspects within scientific knowledge. The book then focuses on five key aspects of the geographical discipline and analyses them using the theories of speech acts and performance: the performative aspects of the creation of place; speech act performances and geopolitics; acts of cartographical construction as variations of speech act performance; the performative aspects of the creation of public and private space, and, finally; the history of the discipline as a sequence of performative acts that attempt to establish geography as being constitutive of this or that type of disciplinary method or scientific viewpoint. Geography Speaks is an interdisciplinary text with a distinct and clear focus on cultural geography while also synthesizing into geography ideas germane to historiography, the philosophy of language, the history of science, and comparative literature.

Dr, Rob Sullivan, Department of Geography, UCLA, USA

Introduction; Part I Setting the Stage; Chapter 1 Speech Acts; Chapter 2 Performing Science; Part II Geographic Applications of the Performative; Chapter 3 The Performance of Place; Chapter 4 The Performance of Cartography; Chapter 5 The Performance of Private and Public Space; Chapter 6 Environmental Determinism and Geopolitical Performance; Chapter 7 The Auto-Performance of Geography; conclusion Conclusion;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.11.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4094-2009-4 / 1409420094
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-2009-5 / 9781409420095
Zustand	Neuware