Human Geography - Philosophical and Theoretical Approaches

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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