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Entrikin, J. Nicholas was born on November 22, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio, United States.
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The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity (Critical Human Geography)
(Professor Entrikin argues in this work that there is no e...)
Professor Entrikin argues in this work that there is no essence or universal structure of place waiting to be uncovered or discovered by the theorist, and the significance of place is associated with the situatedness of humans.
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The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity
(What makes New York City different from Moscow? Are small...)
What makes New York City different from Moscow? Are small towns looking more and more alike? What criteria should we use to distinguish onw place from another? Today, geographers and other social scientists are debating not only the answers to these sorts of questions but even whether or not to ask them at all. This ongoing controversy about how (or whether) to study place and its meaning in modern life forms the focus of J. Nicholas Entrikin's pioneering work. Those who point to a decline in the study of place in geography, Entrikin explains, cite three main causes: the apparent homogenization of world culture; the belief that studying particular places is somehow "parochial"; and the tendency of the scientific method to generalize. Entrikin treats each of these in turn, addressing topics that include the Marxist view of a world economy, the moral implications of place (in such notions as community and provincialism), and the empiricist versus neo-Kantian traditions in philosophy. To geographers arguing the merits of hard, scientific data versus subjective experience, Entrikin offers a compromise. "To understand place", he suggests, "requires that we have access to both an objective and a subjective reality. From the decentered vantage point of the theoretical scientist, place becomes either location or a set of generic relations and loses much of its significance for human action. From the centered viewpoint of the subjective self, place has meaning only in relation to one's own goals and concerns. Place is best viewed from points in-between."
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J. Nicholas Entrikin
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J. Nicholas Entrikin, American Geographer, educator. Recipient fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1984; named Wallace Atwood Lecturer Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1988. Member Association American Geographers, International Geographic Union (member of commission on the history of geography).
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Education
Bachelor, Syracuse University, 1969; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1975.
Career
Professor geography, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1975;
chair department geography, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1991. Visiting lecturer University College, London, 1983. Director University of California at Los Angeles History-Geography Project, Los Angeles, since 1993.
Visiting director research French National Research Center, France, 1994.
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The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity
(What makes New York City different from Moscow? Are small...)
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The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity (Critical Human Geography)
(Professor Entrikin argues in this work that there is no e...)
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The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity
Membership
Member Association American Geographers, International Geographic Union (member of commission on the history of geography). M C.
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Son of John N and Vermona M. (Calliven) E. Married Diane Jane Searight, May 30, 1970. Children: John Christopher, Devin.
