illustrating that system’s codependence on other. This approach also allows us to expand the purview of what is political about the everyday spaces of McUniversity to include gender, sex and nationalism, rather than relying only on critical theories of capitalism to critique what has become of many college campuses. Deconstruction and geography: Settling the account. For, Saussure, elements of language gain their curre, fore, must be studied as a systematized collection of, sounds and inscriptions, each of which, as in structural-, meaning when thought of in relation to the remainder of, from one person to another? played, or manifested in practice. How-, post-structuralist, to assert a clean and, between the two, and indeed, as Chris Philo has intim-, case, Philo argues, discourse is understood to possess a, distinctive ontological status. El estructuralismo propone que uno pueda entender la cultura … Here, under, heading of language and discourse, both of which speak, to underlying issues concerning epistemology, we discuss. For more information contact your, Due to the current restrictions in place, our inspection copy policy has changed. Less attention has been paid to issues of ontology, ically sidelined as a mere product of epistemology, analyses are ontologically agnostic, caring little for, the form and content of the material conditions that, allow for discourses to be manifested (from pen, and paper to landscape itself) and that allow for their, In part, this absence can be laid at the door of the, discipline more broadly, as geographers have commonly. T, that we can call it anything meaningful after having, rejected transcendence, globalization is a process, which materials, practices, and meanings travel long, distances (or are taken by others) only to nestle up to one, another in place. In this manner, post-, structuralism throws doubt onto all certainties regarding, researchers’ ability to accurately represent reality, for our, concepts do not simply re-present that reality, in the, sense of mirroring their referent, but re, within a fully relational system of understanding that, does not require the referent to be cognized in the same, A second influential theorist of post-structuralism was, the French philosopher-historian, Michel F, Whereas Derrida focused on the dualistic presumptions. Although the structuralist movement fostered critical inquiry into these structures, it emphasized logical and scientifi… importance of urban spatial science that from the late 1950s formalized that economism as central place theory, or Alonso's map of bid-rent curves, or models of retail location. As an alternative to a binary conceptualization of spatial data production, a different representation is put forward that more accurately depicts what is in actuality a vast, shifting, and heterogeneous landscape of spatial data production approaches. . The ensuing histories are also, body of work that does not operate according to mod-, necessary trajectory to history, nor is there a definiti, causal mechanism, such as human agency, that lies at the, each mode of analysis – or genealogy – must be con-, sidered as conceived and articulated around present-day, issues and concerns, such that succeeding analyses of the, same topic must necessarily rewrite the past from the, perspective of the present. Second, we, can acknowledge that post-structuralism holds that all, be ‘evaluated’ within the particular spatial–historical, exist as discursive constructs without guarantees, could they be otherwise? So too was anthropologist, culture. The benefits of reduction and simplification enabled by categorization are counterpointed by a world and its contents limited to a finite number of possibilities. For Deleuze, difference does not mean different, in resemblance; rather, it refers to a radical alterity, around us and within us, producing something new, Because such changes are wrought without reference, distinctions that haunt transcendental thought (mind, and so on) are erased or flattened. Post-structuralism is an intellectual movement that emerged in philosophy and the humanities in the 1960s and 1970s. Post-structuralist Geography is a highly accessible introduction to post-structuralist theory that critically assesses how post-structuralism can be used to study space and place. processes, such as those driving economies and culture. need not lead directly to either relativism or nihilism. And, if difference in the world, is not a residual from or a bad copy of a singular Identity, but is rather the immanent force characteristic of all, materialities, including imaginings, emotions, words, and, meanings (as well as those elements more usually, thought of as material, such as organisms and the land-, world to think and speak in terms of things and their, Before we begin to address these questions, it seems, worthwhile to emphasize that though its intellectual, post-structuralism knows no boundaries when it comes to, objects of analysis. See more. commentary on this same condition. Such a recasting of ontology, whereby human beings, are located alongside a host of nonhuman entities within, a broad and complex network, or assemblage, does raise, the question of whether or not ANT has taken a step, back, philosophically speaking, by returning to the, Platonian notion of similitude. The complex interplay of, social relations of power both enables and constrains the, be shaped and to act. structures are dynamic and spatially differentiated fields, form nor do they have the ability to act; they, visible in the empirical realm but, inasmuch as they, systematize the relations, and therefore the causal effi-, The most important structuralist thinker for the de-. Binaries, the most reductive form of categorization, can be usefully invoked to characterize emerging phenomena; yet, they are widely critiqued for oversimplifying a complex world and for their use as tools of social and political influence. In Boal, Schein, R. (1997). A quick primer on difference between structuralism and post-structuralism. a strategy describing what is in the world through formal, orders of similitude, where the world is understood by, isolating and organizing objects supposed to be of the, Plato there supposedly exists a perfect (though imma-, terial) chair form of which all actual chairs are, imperfect copies, chairs are nevertheless identified as, characteristics that constitute their similarities to that, form, their ‘chair-ness’. It challenged the tenets of structuralism, which had previously held sway over the interpretation of language and texts in the humanities and the study of economies and cultures in the social sciences. vates, and transmutes meanings and their contexts. But while it is, certainly the case that this approach eschews the notion, of an external vantage point from which judgments. Hence, Foucault’s work can, be read as an analysis of how the ontological is consti-, tuted in part by the myriad effects produced by dis-, course. grows. A post-structuralist approach argues that to understand an object (a text, for example), one must study both the object itself and the systems of knowledge that produced the object. In its usual, vertical/hierarchical form, scalar levels – whether fixed, or in more contemporary theories as socially produced –, are an invitation to think POEMs as nested from the, local to the global, and everywhere in between (body, household, neighborhood, region, nation). A Geografia Escolar exige especial reflexão acerca do método de tratamento dos conteúdos escolares. It: Introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience. from fixities to fluidities, from rootedness to mobilities, and from hierarchies to networks. In moving towards a conclusion, we draw upon this engagement with film in order to point to the possibilities for a more expansive engagement with the role played by the logics of affect in contemporary geopolitical cultures. To return to Deleuze, we, might say that while our concern should still be with, objects are always immersed in a complex netw, established through the interactions between and among, its members. ranks of post-structuralists because his anti-essentialist, assemblage-based approach to ontology is concerned, first and foremost with the introduction of newness, structuralist thinkers satisfy themselves by leveling, critiques against the systematic and oppressive structur-, ings that pervade social life, Deleuze sought strategies, turned toward difference readies itself for encounters, with random, alternative arrangements and events, emerging through the dynamic, interactive encounters, In this sense, Deleuze’s philosophy should be con-, sidered an active one. transformed through the practice of parole. Allocation of the geography of transport infrastructure in a separate branch is substantially caused also by its communications with others, in particular, geographical disciplines: physical geography, social and political geography, transport economics etc. We illustrate this through a brief discussion of how the relations between the affective and geopolitical logics of intervention are implicated in U.S. involvement in Somalia in 1993 and its depiction in the 2002 film Black Hawk Down. It was with these and other forms of structuralism that, Though elements of post-structuralism can be found in, the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and, Martin Heidegger, its formal recognition as a body, theory can be traced to a host of more contemporary, social, cultural, and literary theorists. It would be a lengthy, complex task to ex- plain the historical reasons for this situation, but they can be summarized by the strong, decisive influence of Vidalian regional geogra- phy and, above all, by the intellectual isolation imposed by the Franco regime, leading to a rejection of any subject or focus deviating from official programmes. that usually implies having something in common). Politics. Indeed, some have com-, mented on the fact that ANT analyses do run the risk of, treating all elements within a network in the same, the sense of having the capacity to act or intervene, within a situation so as to produce a particular affect. As a linguist, Saussure applied his theory of semiotics – that is, the, science of signs – to the study of language. brings together high-quality content from across our imprints, including CQ Press and Corwin titles. The entry begins with a definition of geography and with a description of what the discipline shares with the other social sciences and what makes it distinctive among them. structuralism with it – as in beyond rather than against. Most. canine variant. Murdoch, Jonathan. As such, Spanish geography became an essentially descriptive, apolitical discipline in which its social component and public relevance was highly restricted. T, because each society has its own regime of truth, the, specifics of which are fashioned by: the types of dis-, courses deployed (these can be legal, moral, rational, and, teleological, among others); the techniques and pro-, cedures used to distinguish between true and false, saying what counts as true. Lulka, D. (2004). Even when urban geography began eschewing formal models and theory, turning towards some kind of Marxist approach during the 1970s, the focus on things economic remained, but couched now in a different vocabulary such as rent gap, urban gatekeepers, and uneven development. Crampton, J. and Elden, S. assemblages. For exceptions, permission may be sought for such use through Elsevier’, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Poststructuralism/Poststructuralist Geographies, renders contextual or uncertain a conceptual system by. Contributors include a number of key figures in social/spatial theory such as David Harvey, Chris Philo, Sara Mills, Nigel Thrift, John Agnew, Thomas Flynn and Matthew Hannah. As Derrida went on to note, such, centering is the product of a binary – an either/or –, epistemology. However, it also has adherents in political geography, economic geography, and social geography. These multiple sites of discursive, propagation open a circuit beyond the earthiness of, such as film, television, cyberspace, the body, political, discourse and other forms of speech, and written texts of. We then go on to discuss some of the more influential aspects of post-structuralist geography. In an, ontology of immanence, it is the form of the relation, between the actual and the virtual that forms the heart of, an analysis. Globalization is not scaled; nor does it flow, untethered, like the airline route map. All content in this area was uploaded by J.P. Jones on Feb 28, 2018, and the attached copy is provided by Elsevier for the author’. whiteness in the dialectical landscape: The case of Tarzan and the. It is not unusual to see structuralism rendered as an, inflexible and static framework, but that w, misunderstanding. origins, linearity, and truth, for multiplicity, dispersion, like in order for us to know it; typically described by key. of that simple, Latourian object, the shipping container, dense objects and networks could have mobilized to, enable the corporation to bring cheap goods from the, social sites (factories) of China to the US in the first, place. particular signified again and again. sign, and play in the discourse of the human sciences’. Important Post-Structuralists. In particular, movement provides a physical mechanism to bridge the theoretical gap that separates human from nonhuman, and suggests a means to link together ethical and evolutionary concerns regarding nonhumans. Hence, within these scientific, analyses, the human subject is not only the object of, her/his own understanding, s/he is also understood to, orchestrate the social and physical realms within, In placing humans within these contexts, Fouca, lish a series of insurmountable paradoxes. (2007). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, uncertainties. While scientists protest publicly against right-wing populists bending truths as if it were a self-evident public concern, humanists and social scientists are remarkably quiet. This form of difference is continually renewed as, haecceities become tendencies, forming complex assem-, blages of forces, particles, connections, affects, and, becomings, relations of movement and rest, speed and, those relations; in effect, haecceities work to map their, environment at the same time that both the environment, and themselves are transformed through each and every, It is in this self-organizing immanence that we find, Deleuzean- and Latourian-inspired rejections of, mental spatial concepts that rely on transcendence. Key words: transport, transport infrastructure, transport geography, economic geography. popularity well into the 1960s in a variety of disciplines. Affect is to be found in visceral intensities and resonances that circulate around and shape encounters between and amongst tourists, local tourism representatives and places. It held that language is not a transparent medium that connects one directly with a ‘truth’ or ‘reality’ outside it but rather a structure or code, whose parts derive their meaning from their contrast with one another. Post–structuralist geography. For more details, please see: http://conference.rgs.org/CallForPapers/View.aspx?heading=Y&session=92d79fe9-e2a7-463d-b14d-cf4ebb70098c. In doing so, these geographers have interro-, gated more closely the ontological ramifications of the, discussed here. Thus, a major, component of post-structuralist research involves in-, quiries into the categories that frame reality according to, Second, binaries presume a totalizing epistemology, so, termed because either/or thought can only posit a world, in which everything either ‘is’ or ‘is not’. Post-structuralist Geography is a highly accessible introduction to post-structuralist theory that critically assesses how post-structuralism can be used to study space and place. Post-structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space - Ebook written by Jon Murdoch. Although Heidegger worked in phenomenology and not in structuralism, his thought is the essential reference point for Derrida, whose theory of deconstruction was inspired The text comprises: - a thorough appraisal of the work of key post-structuralist thinkers, including Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Bruno Latour Whereas previous theorizations understood, landscapes to be the imprint on nature of a culture, or, the effect of social process such as capitalism, post-, structuralism has pointed to their status as a complex of, significations and discourses that are intertextually bound, with a host of other landscapes and discourses. It is at this level, the site of the body, of penal, education, and medical systems, focus accord-. Omar Olivares Sandoval* Murdoch, J. "Spaces of Discipline and Government." Indeed, the signifier only has value when it. Representation can be theo-, retically distinguished from re-presentation by reserving, the latter’s meaning as implying the impossible, namely, capturing and reflecting – as in confining and mirroring –, a real-world referent in thought, language, and visual, mediation of the real world through ever-present pro-, By illustration, we can return to the relationships, among signifiers, signifieds, and real-world referents. From 1990 pressured by outside theoretical developments such as cultural studies, and post-modernism, and changes from inside the discipline such as the rise of the new cultural geography, urban geography finally cracked, explicitly allowing culture in first as a trickle, but by the end of that decade as a flood. We draw on our own experience of an emblematic architectural site on our own university campus – the Student Union building – to advance an analysis of the everyday built environment that includes both objects of design and the political subjectivities that emerge along with them. Even when these connecti, a distance – as when these discourses are linked by cell, phones, the Internet, or the press – their, materialities can always be traced: to the phone’, of transmission towers, to the servers that enable Internet, transmissions, and to the materials employed in the, ference, stands in stark contrast to transcen, of globalization that our own cultured, categorized, thought tends to turn toward in its search for order and, sameness. From this position, F, First, he noted that each articulation is produced and, understood within a given context, such that it is afforded, ested in were those that had gained sufficient authority, status of Truth. Nor has social. Thus, feline is. 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