Hyphenated Geographies

The Deindustrialization of Nature-Society Geography

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ID4756087
AutoresMatthew T Huber (0000-0001-5861-4679, Assistant professor of geography in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244., autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume100
Fascículo1
Páginas74-89
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2010.00007.x
OpenAlexW1968019393
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas68

As visions of ecological crisis mark the daily headlines, industrial spaces of intensive energy and material consumption become a more intense object of political and social concern. In this article, I attempt to situate geography's relative neglect of the ecological underpinnings of industrial capitalism within the context of the history of geographical thought. I argue that the ways in which geographers read the hyphen in the phrase "nature‐society" reveals epistemological limits to their object of study. I then offer three dramatically different readings of the hyphen and discuss how they have affected the lineages and trajectories of geographical research—Barrows's human ecology, Sauer's cultural landscape, and critical theories of social nature. I conclude by suggesting that geography needs to let go of its empirical and conceptual fixation on "nature".KeywordsHarlan H. Barrowshistory of geographical thoughtnature‐society geographyCarl O. Sauer * I would like to thank Jody Emel, Deborah Martin, Richard Peet, Billie Lee Turner II, Dianne Rocheleau, Timothy Currie, Diana Ojeda, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on previous versions of this article. I would like to especially thank Craig Colten for his editorial guidance. All errors and omissions are my own.* I would like to thank Jody Emel, Deborah Martin, Richard Peet, Billie Lee Turner II, Dianne Rocheleau, Timothy Currie, Diana Ojeda, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on previous versions of this article. I would like to especially thank Craig Colten for his editorial guidance. All errors and omissions are my own.Notes* I would like to thank Jody Emel, Deborah Martin, Richard Peet, Billie Lee Turner II, Dianne Rocheleau, Timothy Currie, Diana Ojeda, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on previous versions of this article. I would like to especially thank Craig Colten for his editorial guidance. All errors and omissions are my own

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