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Radical Approach by Harvey and Peet - Perspectives in Human Geography

Radical Approach

  • In geography radical approach is only about 25 years old.
  • Radicalism grew as a major criticism of:
    • Quantitative geography
    • Positivism
    • Traditional regional geography
  • Origin of radical geography can be traced to the radical geography movement.
  • It started in the USA in the 1960՚s.
  • Radicalism believes in economic classes and the Subsequent class

Against

  • Quantitative Revolution
  • Positivism
  • Regional Geography
Illustration: Against

Cause of Origin

  • Vietnam War
  • Civil rights movement of the Blacks
  • Poverty in urban ghettos – Cause of social tension.

THEORY + PRACTICE

  • (Value Based – Theory of Labour Value)
  • (Act of Individual in Structural Perspective)

Evolution of Radical Approach

  • Radicalists put emphasis on the need for a revolution in both theory and practice of geography.
  • Therefore, this approach is value-based especially the theory of labour value as against the supposedly value-free approaches.

Critic of Radical Approach

  • It reduces human beings to a passive existence in the field of historical and structural determinism.

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