Geography's inner worlds : pervasive themes in contemporary American geography

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Geography's inner worlds : pervasive themes in contemporary American geography

edited by Ronald F. Abler, Melvin G. Marcus, Judy M. Olson

Rutgers University Press, c1992

  • : pbk

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Prepared as the AAG contribution to the 1992 Washington, D.C., International Geographical Congress

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780813518299

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This first collection of fiction by Anjana Appachana provides stories that are beautifully written, the characters in them carefully and respectfully drawn. All the stories are set in India, but the people in them seem somehow displaced within their own societyaEURO"a society in transition but a transition that does not come fast enough to help them. Appachana manages to capture the pervasive humor, poignancy, and self-delusion of the lives of the people she observes, but she does so without seeming to pass judgments on them. She focuses on unexpected moments, as if catching her characters off guard, lovingly exposing the fragile surfaces of respectability and convention that are so much a part of every society, but particularly strong in India, with its caste system, gender privileges, and omnipresent bureaucracies. All life seems to be prescribed; these characters bravely or cautiously confront the rules and regulations or finally give in to them resignedlyaEURO"any small triumphs they achieve are never clear-cut. One of the most unusual aspects of many of the stories is the way in which they are informed by but never ruled by the author's feminism. She never lectures her readers but lets us see for ourselves: a bride caught in a hopeless marriage where she has given up all rights to any life of her own, a hapless college student who is confined to campus for minor infractions just at the time when she had an appointment for an abortion, a young girl who keeps the dark secret of her sister's rape, a woman executive and a digruntled male clerk both trapped in the intricate bureaucracy of their business firm and the roles they must play to survive there. By turns warm, gullible, arrogant and bigoted, all of these characters live their lives amid contradictions and double standards, superstitions and impossible dreams. Appachana's vision is unique, her writing superb. Readers will thank her for allowing them to enter territory that is at once distant and exotic but also familiar and recognizable.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813518305

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Twenty-six leading American geographers meditate on the themes that unify contemporary geography. They emphasize the concepts and methods that run through all geography's sub-disciplines and give it a distinctive place among both the natural and social sciences. Prepared under the sponsorship of the American Association of Geographers for the International Geographical Congress 1992, these insightful essays on the character of the discipline and its future will be required reading for every student of the field.

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Contemporary American geography Geography's worlds / C. Gregory Knight Places and regions / Bonham C. Richardson Representations of the world / David Woodward Observation / Philip J. Gersmehl, Dwight A. Brown Visualization / Alan M. MacEachren in collaboration with Barbara P. Buttenfield [and others] Analysis / Michael F. Goodchild Modeling / Cort J. Willmott, Gary L. Gaile Communication / David A. Lanegran Location, place, region, and space / Helen Couclelis Movements, cycles, and systems / William L. Graf, Patricia Gober The local-global continuum / William B. Meyer [and others] Scale in space and time / John C. Hudson Paradigms for inquiry? / John Pickles, Michael J. Watts Humanism and science in geography / Melvin G. Marcus in collaboration with Judy M. Olson and Ronald F. Abler Applications of geographic concepts and methods / Risa I. Palm, Anthony J. Brazel The peopling of American geography / Donald G. Janelle

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