Soja's work is some of the most innovative but densest in human
geography, as I am sure he would admit. It helps to have visited Los
Angeles. Even many of us have trouble with it but he is
widely read in
cultural studies. There is an
extremely amusing review of his latest book in the Transactions of the
Institute of British Geographers by Clive Barnett, which raised many
laughs over here (a couple of years ago? Clive?). It is worth getting.
A good place to read about all of these debates, including sociao-spatial
dialectics, in only eight chapters,
is Modern Geographical Thought (Richard Peet, Blackwell, 1998) which does
justice to this work and to Lefebvre in particular.
Steve Pile's work makes the bridge between psychology and geography - he
is on this list so I am sure he can respond.
Simon Batterbury
visiting lecturer
Department of Geography
Campus Box 260
University of Colorado, Boulder
CO 80309-0260 USA
tel. 303 492 5388 fax. 303 492 7501
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Web http://www.colorado.edu/geography/people/faculty.html
My Home: http://www.chautauqua.com/
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