Milton Santos: The conceptual geographer and the philosophy of technics

Abstract

Reviewing two recent books by and about the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos, this essay argues that attention to Santos' work both provides an important lens on the multilingual histories of critical geographical thought in the second half of the twentieth century, and opens rich seams for expanding the conceptual vocabulary of geographical theory.

Keywords

Milton Santos translation Praxis technics technology

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