ABSTRACT
A range of new research opportunities has been opened up by the current convergence of social and cultural geography, blurring the distinctions between formerly separate subdisciplines and making new connections possible (Cosgrove and Jackson 1987). Traditional concepts like landscape and nature, space and place, have been criticized and recast, while newer concepts like locality, flexibility and postmodernity are bringing together human geographers from different branches of the discipline in the exploration of common theoretical concerns. As a result, human geography has been remodelled, remade and rethought, some authors encouraging the transgression of existing boundaries, others diagnosing the contemporary situation in terms of fragmentation and impending chaos.
