Harm De Blij

Biographic Data

ID958138
NAMEHarm De Blij
GIVEN NAMESHarm
FAMILY NAMEDe Blij
SIGNATUREDE BLIJ H
AFFILIATIONSMichigan State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The Power of Place

    Open AccessHarm De BlijARTICLEJournal of Economic Sociology2023

  • The Lost Art of Finding Our Way. John Edward Huth

    Harm De BlijARTICLEThe AAG Review of Books2013

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 544 pp., maps, diagrams, appendices, glossary, notes, index. $35.00 cloth. (ISBN 978-0-674-07282-4). Stand on a city sidewalk near the exit stairs fro

  • The Revenge of Geography

    Open AccessHarm De BlijARTICLEGeographical Review2013Cited by: 1

    THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle of Fate.." Geographical Review, 103(2), pp. 304–305

  • The Power of Place

    Harm De BlijBOOKThe Power of Place2008

    The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively. From our "mother tongue" to our father's faith, fro…

  • Places Open and Shut

    Harm De BlijCHAPTERThe Power of Place2008

    The power of place manifests itself in continua of opportunity and risk, advantage and privation. On the global map it is revealed in patterns of health and sickness, wealth and poverty. On the ground it is demarcated by barriers and barricades, patrols and controls. Reflecting on the impress of place on the fortunes and misfortunes of the planet’s nearly seven billion human inhabitants, it is worth noting that, for all their vaunted mobility, on…

  • The Fateful Geography of Religion

    Harm De BlijCHAPTERThe Power of Place2008

    If language is the mucilage of culture, religion is its manifesto. Any revelation of identity through language happens only when the speaker begins talking, and even then that identity remains in doubt except perhaps to the most experienced ear. Is that skilled KiSwahili speaker a Mijikenda from the Kenya coast or a Kamba from the interior? Is that cultivated French speaker a citizen of Senegal or a resident of Paris? Did those fellows at the bar…

  • The Power of Place

    Harm De Blij, Harm J De BlijBOOKThe Power of Place2008

    "In recent years a spate of books and articles have argued that the world today is so mobile, so interconnected, and so integrated that it is, in one prominent assessment, flat. But as Harm de Blij contends in The Power of Place, geography continues to hold billions of people in an unrelenting grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively. From our "mother tongue" to our fath…

  • Why Geography Matters

    G John Ikenberry, Harm De BlijARTICLEForeign Affairs2005Cited by: 8

    Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and insurgency will threaten vital American interests. How can we understand these and other global challenges? Harm de Blij has a simple answer: by improving our u…

  • African Perspectives

    Open AccessWilliam A Hance, Harm De Blij et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1983

  • African Perspectives

    Bruce Young, Harm De Blij et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1982