Theory and Essentialism in Marxist Geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10962575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Graham (0009-0005-9016-845X, University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-66 |
| Publication date | 1990-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antipode (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8330.1990.tb00197.x |
| OpenAlex | W2113460737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 10 |
S Many Marxist geographers are involved in the current attempt within human geography to create nonessentialist forms of social explanation. This project has been carried forward with great, though uneven, success. I argue that the concept of ‘theory’ is an area of our discourse where essentialism tenaciously persists. I explore some essentialist meanings of ‘theory’ in Marxist geography and offer a nonessentialist alternative meaning, embedded within an explicitly nonessentialist Marxism
Epistemology · Essentialism · Marxist philosophy · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Planetary Entanglements
The Virtuous Circle of Facts and Values in the New Western History
Critical Realism in Geography
Die Politik der Verortung
Surplus Labor and Subjectivity in Urban Agriculture
Rethinking Class in Industrial Geography
Thinking around what a radical geography ‘must be’
Metaphors and Conversations in Economic Geography
Foregrounding the region
Blind Man's Buff, or Hamnett's Philosophical Individualism in Search of Gentrification
Modern Urban Theory in Question
What are Improved Seeds? An Epistemology of the Green Revolution
A world in a grain of sand
For Postcapitalist Studies
Masculinity, place and a binary discourse of ‘theory’ and ‘empirical investigation’ in the human geography of Aotearoa/New Zealand
Notes on a Southern urban practice
Teaching history, philosophy and theory
Perspectives and sensitivities
Third world development
Between modernism and postmodernism
Context in economic geography
Rethinking gentrification
Urban geography I
History and philosophy of geography
Postmodernism comes to dinner in Mr Norwine's neighborhood
Eurocentrism and African Urbanization
Masculinism, Power, and Discourses of Exclusion in Brian Berry’s “Scientific” Geography
Peddling Postmodernism
Anti‐essentialism and Overdetermination – A Response to Dick Peet
Some Critical Questions for Anti‐essentialism
Postmodernist Thought in Geography
Knowledge and the ‘Localities’ Debate
Envisioning Capitalism
What Causes Poverty
Recovering a sense of political economy
Commentary
Oppression, knowledge and the built environment
Post-Fordism as Politics
Postmodernism in Economic Geography
Foucault on Theorizing Specificity
Skeptical Realism
Constructing Competitive Spaces
On Theory's Subject and Subject's Theory
Inquiry into Environment and Body
Representations of Restructuring in the Meat-Packing Industry of Victoria
Space, time and the human being
Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and beyond
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |