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New Worlds, New Geographies

New Worlds, New Geographies

Short, John

Paperback

Series: Space, Place and Society

Travel GeneralGeneral SociologyGeography

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ISBN10: 0815628382
ISBN13: 9780815628385
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 2000
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.69 Depth: 8.57
Language: English

John Rennie Short maintains that the new world order is neither new nor orderly. His book, New Worlds, New Geographies, connects global change, urban transformation, and scholarly integrity.

The disintegration of the comforting illusion that the present is just a continuation of the past demands a closer evaluation of how to live one's life in the fragmented, chaotic world of postmodemity and the current distrust of rationality and progress.

In a personal yet analytical style, Short elucidates the struggles of governments and individuals to situate themselves within changing nation states and the restructurings of urban spaces into a kind of global village.

Short insists that it is the responsibility of academics to help make order out of the chaos of postmodemity and make sense of the relationships between people and the environment, the social and the spatial, the structural

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