In key texts in human geography, edited by phil hubbardrob kitchin and gill valentine, 5144. A political reading generally assumes that the possible meanings of theory in the humanities ultimately reside in the political consequences that are drawn or might be drawn from such theorizing. Sojas first published works as part of its radical thinkers series. From the suppression of space in modern social science and the disciplinary aloofness of geography to the spatial returns of foucault and lefebvre and the construction of marxist geographies alert to urbanization and global development, renowned geographer edward.
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