2017•The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social TheoryRequires access
Geography (Human and Urban)
Dragos Simandan
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Abstract
The entry begins with a definition of geography and with a description of what the discipline shares with the other social sciences and what makes it distinctive among them. Terminological clarifications are provided with regard to the relationship between human geography and physical geography, and between human geography and urban geography. After, a brief history and overview of human geography's engagement with social theory, the entry offers a discussion of the politicization of contemporary human geography and of how this phenomenon is reflected in theory building and concept development.