THE MATTER OF NATURE
THE MATTER OF NATURE
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自然问题
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8330.1989.tb00183.x
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1989
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影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Margaret Fitzsimmons
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作者：
Margaret Fitzsimmons
在其起源，“地理”一词是指地球和正式的，社会建构的知识的物质现实的世界，而不是空间和空间关系。如果我们在重建人文地理学时问“还能做什么”，我们不应该忽视地理学工程的这一重要方面。然而，在激进地理学发展的20年里，在本杂志和其他地方，我将称之为“社会自然”的物质现实问题得到的理论关注相对较少，激进传统地理学家的大多数著作对社会自然问题--社会与其物质环境之间的地理和历史辩证法--保持了一种特殊的沉默。我认为，自然的社会生产问题在任何重建的人文地理学中都有着深刻的根源和必要的地位。我认为，自然是一种“具体的抽象”（哈维，1985年，遵循马克思），在我们的社会和智力生活中，它的神秘作用和力量与空间是等同和平行的。[1]激进地理学似乎是一个从事这种抽象的合适的竞技场，但是，正如皮特十多年前所建议的那样：
In its origins, the term” geography” refers to the earth and to formal, socially-constructed knowledge of the material reality of the world-not to space and spatial relations. If we ask “what’s left to do” in the reconstruction of human geography, we ought not overlook this essential aspect of the geographical project. Yet, in the twenty years of development in radical geography, in this journal and elsewhere, the question of the material reality of what I will call “social Nature” has received relatively little theoretical attention.Most work by geographers in the radical tradition has continued a peculiar silence on the question of social Nature: the geographical and historical dialectic between societies and their material environments. I argue that this question of the social production of nature has deep roots and a necessary place in any reconstructed human geography. Nature, I suggest, is a “concrete abstraction”(Harvey, 1985, following Marx) that is equivalent and parallel to Space in its mystifying role and power in our social and intellectual life. 1 Radical geography seems an appropriate arena within which to engage this abstraction but, as Peet suggested more than ten years ago: