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Research paper thumbnail of Contemporary fiddling in human geography while Rome burns: has quantitative analysis been largely abandoned––and should it be

Geoforum, 2003

Chris Hamnett [Geoforum 34 (2003) 1] has certainly been provocative in his claim that the nature ... more Chris Hamnett [Geoforum 34 (2003) 1] has certainly been provocative in his claim that the nature of much contemporary human geography means that the discipline Ôwill cease to be taken seriously in the world beyond the narrow confines of academeÕ (p. 1). Much of his critique focuses on what he terms Ôpost-modernism, new cultural geography and the interpretative turnÕ (p. 2) practiced by those he identifies as Ôthe new intellectual dilettantiÕ (p. 3). In responding, however, our concern is not with that aspect of his critique, but rather with HamnettÕs misrepresentation of one section of contemporary human geography.

Research paper thumbnail of Contemporary fiddling in human geography while Rome burns: has quantitative analysis been largely abandoned––and should it be

Geoforum, 2003

Chris Hamnett [Geoforum 34 (2003) 1] has certainly been provocative in his claim that the nature ... more Chris Hamnett [Geoforum 34 (2003) 1] has certainly been provocative in his claim that the nature of much contemporary human geography means that the discipline Ôwill cease to be taken seriously in the world beyond the narrow confines of academeÕ (p. 1). Much of his critique focuses on what he terms Ôpost-modernism, new cultural geography and the interpretative turnÕ (p. 2) practiced by those he identifies as Ôthe new intellectual dilettantiÕ (p. 3). In responding, however, our concern is not with that aspect of his critique, but rather with HamnettÕs misrepresentation of one section of contemporary human geography.

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