Society in Time and Space: A Geographical Perspective on Change

ISBN-13: 9780521596404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 246 str.

Robert A. Dodgshon

Opis

In this highly original book, Robert Dodgshon suggests that in order to understand change we first need to understand the geographical circumstances under which society finds change difficult. Secondly, he shows how society's use of space is a powerful source of this inertia, and the different sources of geographical inertia are explored. By examining this inertia we learn that society has long steered change around such spaces. This is an important and innovative book and will be of interest to a range of geographers, historians and social theorists.

Spis treści

1. Human geography and societal change; 2. Establishing a taxonomy of societal change; 3. Varieties of change: world systems and empires; 4. The experience of change: states and regions; 5. Sources of inertia and the cultural construction of landscape; 6. Organizational sources of inertia; 7. The built environment as a source of inertia; 8. Conceptualizing inertia: the first step towards a geography of social change; 9. The geography of societal change: a concluding synthesis.