All or Nothing? Politics and Critique in the Modernism-Postmodernism Debate

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ID4476237
AuthorsSteve Pile (0000-0003-1503-2382, Middlesex University), Pile, G Rose (0000-0002-2367-6965, Department of Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, England)
Year1992
Volume10
Issue2
Pages123-136
Publication date1992-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d100123
OpenAlexW2061938527
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited36

The abstract for this paper is presented in the form of a preface: Preface. In this paper we are concerned with the structure of the debate over modernism and postmodernism in geography. We feel we are being asked to take a position, for (or against) modernism and against (or for) postmodernism. We have different reasons for refusing the politics of this choice. Both of us take a separate route to this refusal, as shown in this paper. Some words of warning are necessary before we begin. Given the broad scope of this paper, it will be obvious that some liberties will have to be taken in the presentation. We hope that these limitations will be excused by readers sympathetic to the underlying purpose of the paper, which is to invite the most general of debates on this topic(1). In this vein, we conclude that there are more possibilities for critical and subversive geography than we are being allowed

Aesthetics · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Modernism (music · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Postmodernism · Presentation (obstetrics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance

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