For a New Geography

A significant work of critical geography, For a New Geography was first published in 1978 in Portuguese and marked the emergence of Milton Santos as a major interpreter of geographical thought. It bridges the gap between geography's past and future, offering an ontology of space and a methodology for critical geography.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 272 pages
\n Publication date: 14 December 2021
\n Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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For the first time in English, a pivotal work of critical geography has been translated into the language. Originally published in Portuguese in 1978, For a New Geography is a landmark in the history of critical geography, marking the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926-2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space.

Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography served as a bridge between geography's past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the fields foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside.

Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogeneous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography.

\n Weight: 380g\n
Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781517909086\n \n