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My Dinner with Derrida, or Spatial Analysis and Poststructuralism Do Lunch

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  • D P Dixon

    (Department of Geography, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA)

  • J P Jones III

    (Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA)

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Menu. This paper extends our previous efforts to (de)lineate contemporary divisions between poststructuralist and spatial analytic, or scientific, approaches in geography. We adopt the format of a dialogue between a hypothetical spatial analyst (SA) and a poststructuralist (PS). Their exchange covers, among other items, the differing stances of these approaches to epistemology, ontology, research questions and methods, and the concept of ‘context’. We also further develop the concept of the ‘epistemology of the grid’, which we define as the spatialization of categorical thought. We link this epistemology to two others, Cartesian perspectivalism and ocularcentrism, arguing that their realization in social practice is generative of social order.

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  • D P Dixon & J P Jones III, 1998. "My Dinner with Derrida, or Spatial Analysis and Poststructuralism Do Lunch," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 30(2), pages 247-260, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:30:y:1998:i:2:p:247-260
    DOI: 10.1068/a300247
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    1. Emilio Casetti, 1995. "Spatial Mathematical Modeling And Regional Science," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 74(1), pages 3-11, January.
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