Postmodern Eleştirilerin Coğrafi Düşünce ve Yeni Mekân Kavrayışları Üzerine Yansımaları

Abstract

In this article, the significance of spatiality and geographical thought in social theory is emphasized via postmodern critics in last three decades. For that purpose, firstly paradigmatic shift in social theory is pursued and evaluated through evolution of geographical thought in historical perspective. After that, different aspects of spatiality and place context, which diverse from traditional positivist paradigm and are focus of geographical thought, are stressed on. New context of spatiality or place notion which is brought to fore by socialist and other radical approaches as a “structure” and “imagination” has been mentioned in that sense. The traces of that contextual change of spatiality notion and epistemological and methodological shift in geography at last three decades can be pursued particularly in human geography. Therefore at the second part of this study, the effects of contextual and paradigmatic shift in geographical thought are debated in realm of economic and cultural geography. The main emphasis of article is that all indicators in different realms point to accruing significance of new geographical thought in social theory

Keywords

• geographical thought
• social theory
• space
• postmodern geographies