Humanistic and New Cultural Geography: Review and Contemporary Reading

The dissertation presents a bibliographical review of four classics of humanistic and new cultural geography in order to evaluate their contemporary academic relevance. The analysis and investigation conducted on the research published by Relph (1976), Tuan (1977), Cosgrove (1984), and Jackson (1989) demonstrates their fundamental influence on the development of their discipline. In spite of the critics that have been moved in the last few decades according to the advancement of geographical thinking, they have proved themselves to be still pertinent to contemporary issues thanks to their multidisciplinary approach. They have established theoretical frameworks, notions, and future challenges that have resulted in the flourishing of new stimulating research even in other fields of knowledge.