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Around 1987: outline of a lesson in geographic thought
Author(s) -
Cresswell Tim
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12090
Subject(s) - sympathy , opposition (politics) , sociology , context (archaeology) , epistemology , social science , history , political science , social psychology , politics , law , psychology , philosophy , archaeology
This short commentary reflects on P hilo's 1987 A rea paper, ‘ “Not at our seaside”: community opposition to a nineteenth‐century branch asylum’ by placing it in the context of currents of thought emerging or coalescing in that year as well as my own intellectual trajectory. These contexts include the emerging interest in F oucault, developments in cultural, social and historical geography and the long‐standing interest in the significance of ‘outsiders’ and their role in the production of order. Most of all, perhaps, the paper prefigures Philo's own career with its consistent interest in (and sympathy for) outsiders, engagement with wider currents of theory (particularly F oucault) and insistence on the importance of history.