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The social and political upheavals of the 1960s inspired the launch of radical geography, a response to the social and political events of the 1960s and 1970s, which transformed the discipline in the Anglo-American world. Radical geography was as much a response to changes in society as it was a criticism of prevailing assumptions in academic geography. In particular, radical geography emerged just as the quantitative revolution seemed to have achieved near-hegemonic status (Johnston 2000, 980). Radical geographers rejected the spatial determinism implicit in spatial science, instead seeking to place questions of geography within broader social and political contexts. They emphasized context and relationships between places and people and broadened the geographical research agenda by considering previously neglected issues including poverty, hunger, urban decay, and social inequality.
 http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/website/2001vol1no1/articles/gibbons.htm
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