POSTMODERNISTICKÉ REFLEXIE V URBÁNNEJ GEOGRAFII

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POSTMODERNISTICKÉ REFLEXIE V URBÁNNEJ GEOGRAFII

Journal Title: FOLIA GEOGRAPHICA - Year 1999, Vol 32, Issue 1

Abstract

In the present study we tackle the very recent suggestions that have been advanced regarding a postmodern geography. The aim of this paper is to present the key features of the postmodernist attitude and draw atention on the reflections of this attitude (or attitudes) in urban geography. In recent years a number of human geographers have begun to engage with the debate about what has been called postmodernism. The debate has spread into arguments about the overall working of the contemporary human world and also into reflections upon how we strive to think about these multifaceted working. Some theorists hence identify an object of study that comprises these workings and refer to this object as „postmodernity“ or as the epoch of „the postmodern“. Other theorists are more occupied with developing an attitude towards the knowledge we can acquire about the world, towards the methods we might employ in the process, towards the theories that inform our research. The postmodernist attitude is inherently suspicious of grand intellectual positions such as Marxism, humanism, structuration theory and realism, Indeed, one of the key premisses of postmodernism as a way of thinking - is that we nees to contemplate the human world less in terms of grand theories and more in terms humble, eclectic and empirically grounded materials. The second of the key premisses of postmodernism is the focus upon difference, an alertness to the many differences that distinguish one phenomenon, event, process or whatever from another, and an insistence on not obliterating these vital differences in the face of grand theoretical statements. The most popular technique in postmodernist attitude is deconstruction. This technique for teasing out the incoherencies, limits and unintentioned effects of a text has had an enormous influence upon North American literary theorists, but what has also hapened is tahat principle of deconstruction has been extended to the analysis of the incoherencies lying at the intersections of all manner of texts, cultural products, social settings or whatever. As a result numerous researches, urban geogarphers included.

Authors and Affiliations

René MATLOVIČ

Keywords

urban geography postmodernism deconstruction narration language games postmodern geography

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