Toward Poststructuralist Geographies

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Toward Poststructuralist Geographies
According to Cresswell (2013), since 1980s and 1990s, human geography has seen a propagation of perspectives of theory. The modern human geography has ignored the past arguments. Postmodernism involves the thinking that denies metanarratives, essence and foundations that shut down a research on huge theoretical changes. It appears that the contemporary society is composed of people interested in self-made theories and abjections to those propounded by others. Some geographers are putting into consideration the choices made by human beings over small matters. However, others like Marxists disregard the issue as being unimportant. These questions belong to structure as well as agency.
Structuralisms basically entail a body of thought and works in culture and language. Disciplines can depict various forms of structuralism. During the 1980s, the struggle between agency and structure started being worked upon by geographers. Time geographies are concerned with routes in space and time of individuals as well as groups. From birth to death, an individual has spatial and temporal attributes which are premises of time geography. Contextual explanations can be provided by geographers through time geography. Necessary ideas are usually intertwined by critical realism. Structuration theory integrates agency and structure in human geography. However, it cannot account for daily happenings.
Key Texts, Chapter 22 "Critical Geopolitics"
In Critical Geopolitics gives an exhaustive challenge to the conventional geopolitics, formulated as theories and acts of statecraft. First and foremost, critical Geopolitics first examines geopolitics’ tradition via the work of its main proponents at the onset of 20th century. The book ends by presenting a discussion about changing geopolitics nature, particularly technological influence and media, contending for critical analysis need.
The approach of Critical geopolitics seeks to assess how international politics exist being abstract spatially or physically, and by doing this in in order to reveal the politics concern...