Philosophical and Theoretical Approaches
Within each of the subfields, various philosophical approaches can be used in research; therefore, an urban geographer could be a Feminist or Marxist geographer, etc.
Such approaches are:
- Behavioural geography
- Critical geography
- Feminist geography
- Marxist geography
- Non-representational theory
- Positivism
- Postcolonialism
- Poststructuralist geography
- Psychoanalytic geography
- Psychogeography
- Spatial analysis
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