Geography and abstraction: Towards an affirmative critique

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 715-734

  McCormack, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abstraction; critique; diagram; experience; line; materiality

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84869174147     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132512437074     Document Type: Article

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