"The connection between geography and progress is fundamental," writes Robert Sack in the introduction to the present volume. Touching on both moral and material progress, six of the world's leading geographers and environmental historians explore differing aspects of this connection. Thomas Vale discusses whether progress is discernible in the natural realm; Kenneth Olwig examines fundamental changes that occurred to the notion of progress with the rise of modernity, while David Lowenthal and Yi-Fu Tuan discuss recent geographical changes that have resulted in an increasing societal disenchantment and anxiety. Nicholas Entrikin looks at progress as "moral perfectibility, and its connection to democratic places," a theme which Robert Sack further explores by prescribing ways in which geographers and citizens can evaluate and create places that increase our awareness of reality in its variety and complexity.
Contributors: J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California-Los Angeles; David Lowenthal, University College, London; Kenneth Olwig, University in Trondheim, Norway; Robert David Sack, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas R. Vale, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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"The book builds upon Tuan's concern with progress toward the real and good. The possibilities to understand the world according to such a framework are great, of course, and the papers included here comment upon many of them. All the contributors charge ahead toward new frontiers in thinking about the place of geography in matters of 'progress.' In so doing, they all make significant contributions to our knowledge about the world and its natural and human affairs."—David Zurick, Eastern Kentucky University
Robert David Sack is Clarence J. Glacken and John Bascom Professor of Geography and Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Homo Geographicus: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern and Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's World: A Relational Framework for Geographical Analysis, both available from Johns Hopkins.
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