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Geography, History and Social Sciences

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Georges B. Benko

    1. Department of Geography, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

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  2. Ulf Strohmayer

    1. Department of Geography, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK
      Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 27)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Geography, history and social sciences : An introduction

      • Georges Benko
      Pages 3-12

  3. Spatial Thinking in History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Lefebvre, Lacan and the production of space

      • Derek Gregory
      Pages 15-44

    3. World time and world space or just hegemonic time and space?

      • Milton Santos
      Pages 45-49

    4. The language of space

      • Michel Foucault
      Pages 51-55

    5. Geography before geography : pre-hellenistic meteors and climates

      • Jean-François Staszak
      Pages 57-69

    6. Geographical systems and the order of reality

      • Martin Hampl
      Pages 71-80

  5. Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Contemporary acceleration : world-time and world-space

      • Milton Santos
      Pages 171-176

    3. Structural change, theories of regulation and regional development

      • Mick F. Dunford, Diane Perrons
      Pages 177-191

    4. Theory of regulation and territory : An historical view

      • Georges Benko
      Pages 193-210

  6. Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. Territoriality and the state

      • Ron J. Johnston
      Pages 213-225
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Georges Benko «Societies are much messier than our theories of them» Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1 Towards a unified social theory Why are there communication problems between the different disciplines of the social sciences? And why should there be so much misunderstanding? Most probably because the encounter of several disciplines is in fact the encounter of several different histories, and therefore of several different cultures, each interpreting the other according to the code dictated by its own culture. Inevitably geographers view other disciplines through their own cultural filter, and even a benevolent view remains 'ethnocentric'. It was in order to avoid such ethnocentricity that Femand Braudel called for more unity among the social sciences in 1958 : «l wish the social sciences . . . would stop discussing their respective differences so much . . . and instead look for common ground . . . on which to reach their first agreement. Personally I would call these ways: quantification, spatial awareness and 'longue duree'». In its place at the center of the social sciences, geography reduces all social reality to its spatial dimensions. Unfortunately, as a discipline, it considers itself all too often to be in a world of its own. There is a need in France for a figure like Vidal de la Blanche who could refocus attention away from issues of time and space, towards space and social reality. Geographic research will only take a step forward once it learns to address the problems facing all the sciences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Georges B. Benko

  • Department of Geography, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK

    Ulf Strohmayer

  • Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

    Ulf Strohmayer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geography, History and Social Sciences

  • Editors: Georges B. Benko, Ulf Strohmayer

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1681-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2543-7Published: 31 August 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4335-1Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1681-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 270

  • Topics: Geography, general, Human Geography, Economic Geography, History, general, Epistemology

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