User:Aude/Geography
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Geography concepts and topics:[1]
- Acculturation
- Agglomeration theory
- Agricultural revolution
- Behavioral geography
- Boundary
- Carrying capacity
- Core-periphery
- Central business district
- Central place theory
- City block (and superblock)
- Cultural geography
- Demographic transition
- Distance
- Economic base theory
- Economic development
- Economic geography
- Economic rent
- Economies of scale
- Ecosystem
- Enclave
- Exurb
- Frontier
- Gentrification
- Geopolitics
- Gerrymander
- Ghetto
- Gravity model
- Heartland
- Infrastructure
- Journey to work
- Landscape
- Land use
- Location
- Location theory
- Mental maps
- Migration
- Model
- Modernization
- Natural hazard
- Natural resource
- Paradigm
- Plantation
- Political geography
- Population density
- Population geography
- Population pyramid
- Region
- Rimland
- Scale
- Sector theory
- Sense of place
- Social change
- Spatial analysis
- Spatial diffusion
- Spatial interaction
- State
- Suburb
- System
- Territoriality
- Urban geography
- Urbanization
- Urban planning
[edit] Theory
Theoretical approaches include:[2]
- Feminism - How gender relations have played to the advantage of men rather than women. In geography, space may have been crucial to maintain this structure. - Donna Haraway,Bell Hooks, Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, Iris Marion Young
- Marxism - Based on ideas from Karl Marx, sesks to expose injustices caused by capitalism - Mike Davis, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey, Neil Smith, Edward Soja, Peter Taylor, Immanual Wallerstein
- Positivism - Universal laws and explanations can be developed through an objective and independent scientific approach. Brian Berry, Peter Haggett, David Harvey
- Poststructural - The role of language in the construction of knowledge, with language helping to give stability - Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault
- Postcolonial - Legacy of the colonial era on former colonies - Homi Bhabha, Derek Gregory, Bell Hooks, Gearoid O Tuathail (Gerard Toal), Edward Said, Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak
- Postmodernism - Breakdown of order, rationality, and progress, postmodern times are fluid and flexible.Jean Baudrillard, Mike Davis, Michael Dear, David Harvey, David Ley, Edward Soja
- Subaltern - Bell Hooks, Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak
