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Why is radicalism seen as major a paradigm shift in geography? Explain its causes, approaches, and criticism.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Radical geography is the thought that emerged in Anglo-American geography from the late 1960s treating space not as a neutral container but as a social product — created by, and actively reproducing, relations of class, race, gender and imperial power.

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  • Why It Counts as a Paradigm Shift: Applying the Kuhnian Test
  • Causes: The Crisis That Made the Old Paradigm Untenable
  • External — the societal and political conjuncture
  • Internal — the exhaustion of spatial science
  • Approaches Within Radicalism: A Spectrum, Not a Single Doctrine
  • Criticism: Where the Radical Paradigm Fell Short
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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