{"product_id":"new-worlds-new-geographies-paperback","title":"New Worlds, New Geographies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Short\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Rennie Short maintains that the \"new world order\" is neither new nor orderly. His book, \u003ci\u003eNew Worlds, New Geographies, \u003c\/i\u003e connects global change, urban transformation, and scholarly integrity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe disintegration of the comforting illusion that the present is just a continuation of the past demands a closer evaluation of how to live one's life in the fragmented, chaotic world of postmodemity and the current distrust of rationality and progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a personal yet analytical style, Short elucidates the struggles of governments and individuals to situate themselves within changing nation states and the restructurings of urban spaces into a kind of global village. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShort insists that it is the responsibility of academics to help make order out of the chaos of postmodemity and make sense of the relationships between people and the environment, the social and the spatial, the structural\u003cbr\u003eand the personal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the restructuring of a \"new world order\" to the reappraisal of the role of academics, this accessible collection of essays calls for a \"progressive human geography\" to help cope with the political changes of a postmodern age. \u003ci\u003eNew Worlds, New Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e represents a reluctant postmodernist and resident alien's attempt to make sense of a changing world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Rennie Short \u003c\/b\u003ewas a professor of geography at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Order, Imagined Country: Society, Culture and Environment \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Humane City and \u003c\/i\u003ethe editor of \u003ci\u003eHuman Settlement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.57 x 5.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47533906198777,"sku":"9780815628385","price":37.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/kepo7eSnf-9780815628385.webp?v=1773879702","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/new-worlds-new-geographies-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}