Voices from the North: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography
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Voices from the North: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography
Voices from the North: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography

Voices from the North: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography

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Jan Ohman (Author)  

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While contemporary human geography has widely acknowledged that knowledge has both contingent and contextual character, international literature has tended to blot out differences and reproduce hegemonic Anglo-Saxon discourses. Any interest in destabilizing such power-knowledge systems calls upon interventions from other voices. Nordic voices in particular have not been well represented in current human geography. This book redresses the balance by offering a unique assessment of the geographical research being undertaken in the Nordic countries and by demonstrating the way in which these voices contribute to international debate. It brings together a range of Nordic authors, each of whom has made a significant contribution to such debates, and considers the relationship between production and social institutions in local development. It also examines the ambiguous role of the welfare state in the Nordic countries, issues of social practice and identity and their relationship to spatiality, new approaches to landscape and environment, and the significance of difference and relations of power. Theoretical discussion, illustrated by empirical examples, reveals the interweaving in Nordic human geography of international affiliations and Nordic situatedness.
Jan A-hman, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden Kirsten Simonsen, Professor, Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University. Denmark
  • Contributor: Jan Ohman
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9781138416093
  • Number of Pages: 306
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 453
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2017-09-21
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Jan A-hman, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden Kirsten Simonsen, Professor, Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University. Denmark

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