New Centrality of Geography in a Changing World

This incisive book proposes a return to the theory of spatial and territorial analysis. It provides an authoritative exploration of developments in geographical thought to the present day, the importance of the spatial dimension in scientific knowledge and the new centrality of geography as a discipline. Rubėn Lois González argues that geography has reinforced its internal unity and its holistic vocation by remaining an integrative discipline across the Social and Earth Sciences. Moving beyond the dominant Anglophone and European frameworks of knowledge, he considers geographical discourses which are being developed in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Particular attention is given to the way geography has adapted to new critical and environmental discourses such as the Anthropocene and new forms of cartographic expression.This book is essential reading for geography researchers and students around the world. It will also benefit academics from diverse disciplines across the social and earth sciences interested in the renewal of territorial analysis.