SPUNTI DI RIFLESSIONE SUI MATERIALI DI STUDIO ASSEGNATI

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SPUNTI DI RIFLESSIONE SUI MATERIALI DI STUDIO
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• DHG - Geography history of (what does it mean?)
• resist essentialist specification (p.295)
  whats the meaning of this?
• in fact, geographical knowledge and practice
  has been intimately intertwined with a host of
  enterprises (p. 295) can you explain,
  also using some examples, what this sentence
  implies.
• DHG - Geography (some possible questions)
• The idea that there is some eternal
  metaphysical core to geography independent of
  circumstances will simply have to go
  (Livingston, 1992, p. 28)? (p. 287). Which
  concept(s) does the author want to sustain by
  citing this statement.
• Which way of doing geography does Darby want to
  contest and which one does he want to support by
  the affirmation We can look at a picture as a
  whole and it is as a whole that it leaves an
  impression upon us we can however read only line
  by line (p. 288).
• Which consequences did the issue raised by Darby
  had for human geography once it was considered in
  a problematic way?
• The author affirms that there is a Geography of
  Geography (p. 289) what does he mean by this?
• Which main points does the author underline
  talking about the separation of Human and
  Physical Geography. And
• Whats the meaning of the authors claim
  physical geography, like science more
  generally, is a social practice too, it has its
  own highly formalized rules, but it constantly
  traffics in meaning and interpretations