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• Behaviouralism
  ...n of space. Behaviouralism tries to give an explanation of the spatiallity of human activities. And thereby they use a complex universally applicable mod ...oning of stimulus it becomes possible to change behaviour. In this process of behaviour, there is no place for consiousness and perception.
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• Behaviourism
  ...h his discovery of 'classical conditioning', where he studies the reflexes of a dog (H. Ernste, ''personal communication'' 02-2010). In the beginning the ...uli this is called learning through succes. That is also what the [[theory of instrumental learning]] describes (H. Ernste, ''personal communication'' 02
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• Cartesian rationalism and Ley & Samuels
  ... is used for getting to know the world, but by doing so makes the capacity of the human mind to acquire knowledge about (it's own) existence 'a central p ... as opposed to each other. Ley & Samuels thus conclude that the philosophy of Descartes should be regarded as 'dehumanising', as it does not adhere to th
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• Collaborative planning
  ...o inform the citizens about the possibilities, and then to map the desires of this group. Discussion groups, or focus groups, and massmedia can play a la ...nizations (Brand & Gaffikin, 2007, p. 283). This highlights the importance of a planning approach in which governments communicate with other actors in s
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• Communicative rationality
  ... together with instrumental rationality the bases of Habermas stucturation of communication. Communicative rationality is also summarized by Szczelkun an ...and critique had to link individual action and their conditions with forms of collectivity (Zierhofer, 2002, p 1365).
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• Compositional regional geography
  ...ography]] (Werlen, 2009). It is compositional as in creating a composition of human and physical elements. ...ot being put in a human perspective however, but it remains the foundation of everything else (Werlen, 2009, p. 3).
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• Contextual regional geography
  ... of structuration ([[structuralism]])and the research related to this kind of geography would distinguish two components, namely '[[locale]]' and '[[soci ...me together within a regional context, determine the distinctive character of that region (Werlen, 2009).
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• Dividing practices
  This is a key concept of [[Derek Gregory]] in his postcolonial theory. ... kept in indefinite detention. This results in [[Space of exception|spaces of exception]] (Gregory, 2006). Institutions are made to regulate the distinc
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• Edward Said
  ...nce and discretion veil the hurt, slow the body searches, soothe the sting of loss'' (Said, E., 1986 in Ashcroft & Ahluwalia, 2001, p.3) ...truggles with his dislocation, his recognition of the empowering potential of exile, his constant engagement with the link between textuality and the wor
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• Environmental Determinism
  ...etermination, this approach does not allow for speculations, since stimuli of the environment cause certain reactions and behavioural responses, the huma == Example of environmental determinism ==
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• Essentialism
  == Definition of essentialism == ... things, the invariable and fixed properties which define the ''whatness'' of a given entity'.
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• Felix Guattari
  ... Guattari]] (1930-1992) was a French born philosopher. Guattari spent most of his career working in the [[clinic La Borde]], which is an institutional ps ...omate, La Voie Communiste and also founded the F.G.E.R.I., the Federation of Groups for Institutional Study and Researcg which represented his lifelong
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• Ferdinand de Saussure
  ...as a Swiss linguist. He was born in 1857 in Geneva, and died in 1913. Much of De Saussure's thinking connects to the [[constructionist]] approach. ...e given by Hall (1997) is the following: the colour red is not the essence of the signified. It is the difference between red and (for instance) green th
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• Henri Lefebvre
  ...ench Communist Party (PCF). Between 1930 and 1940 he worked as a professor of philosophy, after which he joined the French Resistance in 1940. ...f Everyday Life', which was one of the major inspirations for the founding of the COBRA movement.
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• Heteronomy
  ...itique of Practical Reason. In his Critique Kant outlined the distinctions of a [[free will] that constituted its own law and a coerced will that permitt ...eady be preset; the limits on action would restrict him to a tapered range of theological, moral or political options (Hartmann, 2007).
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• Heterotopia
  ...either here or there, that are simultaneously physical and mental eg space of a phone call ...he commonplace, the topicality of everyday society’. The literal meaning of heterotopia is ‘other places’ and describes a world off centre with res
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• Humanism
  ...positivism]] was one traditional way of what is agreed upond the knowledge of science, Humanism is the other traditional view. ...he humanistic tradition, giving background information also to the concept of Humanistic Geography (see also Humanistic Geography).
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...o deconstruct the established truths by means of language. Derrida was one of the best known [[Post-structuralism|poststructuralists]] along with [[Miche ... he dreamed of becoming a professional football player but also read works of philosophers and philosophers such as Rousseau, Camus, Nietzsche and Gide.
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• Jean-François Lyotard
  [[File:Jean-Francois_Lyotard.png|200px|thumb|left|Portrait of Jean-François Lyotard. By: Sijmen Hendriks]] ... his life) a Marxist activist. He was an important man for the development of [[post-modernism]]. His most important post-modern work is ''The Postmoder
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• Jean Baudrillard
  ...rt of one movenment, he was always a outsider. In 1968 he became a student of the philosopher [[Henri Lefebvre]]. After this period he became a professor ...f his famous publication about the [[Simulacrumtheory]] and because of his critique on [[Michel Foucault]].
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