ABSTRACT

On the Border with Deleuze and Guattari Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III

Introduction

Perhaps the most influential aspect of postmodernism's introduction into geography in the late 1980s was an interdisciplinary engagement with the humanities, particularly with American literary theory, British cultural studies, and French poststructuralism. Out of these interactions a growing cadre of geographers came to reject their traditional model of mimetic representation and the certainties it insured. In its place they came to highlight the indeterminacy of meaning and the inescapably social entanglements of discourse within systems of power/knowledge. These insights led to an emphasis on the textual character of space and everyday life over the brute force of underlying social structures, particularly the capitalist political economy.