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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
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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