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Article: Poststructuralist Geographies: the Diabolical Art of Spatial Science.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
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- March 22, 2003
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By Marcus Doel. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Acknowledgments, bibliography, name index, and subject index, ix+229 pp. $28.95 paper.
Symptomatic of a self-affirmed love for geography, Marcus Doel's Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science, is a truly moving book, not so much by evoking teary pathos as creating a vibration that shakes up and re-evaluates geography. Prescribing a "pop-philosophical remix-, which affects you or not" (2), Doel's book is an attempt to swerve readers away "from the negatory myths that have tended to envelop and deaden the joyful force and insatiable passion of poststructuralism" (2). Such ...