Title: Postmodernism - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism: Philosophical Aspects
Postmodernism in Sociology
Postmodernism in Geography
Postmodernism: Methodology
2.4 Relativism and Questioning Postmodernists
Photographic image issues
Postmodernism defined
Archaeology
Conclusion
Art History
5 Methodological Pluralism
Organizations
Museum
Family Systems
Narrative family therapy
Warfare and Military Studies, Overview
The Postmodern Military

Content: Marxist Geography and geopolitical economy, humanistic Cultural Geography, and geographical feminism. In each stream, postmodernism focused attention on the distinctiveness of the present, on what is new and different in the contemporary period. In addition to defining an empirical condition of contemporary life, especially in the geographies arising from Postmodern Urbanism, postmodernism also expressed itself as a method of textual and visual representation and, most controversially, as a comprehensive epistemological critique of all modes of modern geographical enquiry. Postmodern approaches have been particularly influential in geographical studies of globalization and urban economic restructuring; in rethinking such core concepts as space, place, region, and environment; and in expanding geography's impact on both the social sciences and the humanities. Although still controversial, with few geographers specifically labeling themselves postmodernists, postmodernism has probably had a more intense and far-reaching impact on geography than it has on any other social science discipline. View chapter Purchase book
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Postmodernism: Methodology
P.V. Rosenau, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001
2.4 Relativism and Questioning Postmodernists
Postmodernism is plagued, because of its European philosophical precursors, with the charge of relativism (Gellner 1992) but many postmodernists defy this heritage and reject relativism.