Worldview Flux: Perplexed Values for Postmodern Peoples - Hardcover

Norwine, Jim; Smith, Jonathan M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739101382 ISBN 13: 9780739101384

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2000

Synopsis

The most salient feature of the postmodern world, believe geographers Jim Norwine and Jonathan M. Smith, is a new set of beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions that are not yet well developed or widely diffused, so that few if any postmodern people are entirely of the new world or the old. People are "perplexed," their values inchoate. Worldview Flux defines and describes the nature of perplexity and documents the shifts and changes of the postmodern world that lead to it, attending especially to the ways changes are experienced in particular places and human communities. In theoretical chapters contributors explain the reasons for our disoriented and disorienting world; empirical chapters describe strategies developed by individuals and communities to preserve, recover, or reinvent lost values, meaning, and identity. This volume is an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking exploration of cultural geography in our time.

About this title

About the Author

Jim Norwine is Regents Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas A&M University at Kingsville. Jonathan M. Smith is Associate Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University at College Station. Both editors have published widely on cultural and physical geography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739101382
• ISBN 13: 9780739101384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296