The criticism of bases and claims of post-structural geography
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The criticism of bases and claims of post-structural geography Mahmood Vasegh . Ahad Mohammadi
. Javad Heshmati
Accepted: 14 September 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract In contrast to structuralists, who sought to achieve a fixed and static framework of meanings by referring concepts and content of knowledge to dominant structures and discourses, denying structures and meanings, post-structuralists abandoned the content of knowledge from any constraint and involved it in fluidity and ambiguities, and denied any predesigned semantic structure. According to the poststructuralism view, there is no fixed semantic framework and no reliable foundation for knowledge, and everything is in the process of continuous decay and disintegration and every meaning is exposed to a continuous process of semantic dialectics in the dual oppositions between different and conflicting interpretations, and experiences changes, and this process continues and there is no end for it. In the field of geography, meanings are produced in the process of communication between spaces, and there are no independent meanings and identities for geographical space and place alone. According to the authors of this article, post-structuralism, despite the great noise, is a non-scientific and non-epistemic viewpoint, and before having an epistemic nature, it is considered as M. Vasegh A. Mohammadi (&) J. Heshmati Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran e-mail: [email protected] M. Vasegh e-mail: [email protected] J. Heshmati e-mail: [email protected]
a political and social movement and approach. A look at the fundamentals and assumptions of this school suggests that this view has conceptual and epistemic contradictions. Relying on the claims of this school, the possibility of any scientific research, and the ability to communicate between geographic spaces and to reach the fields of interaction and dialogue between individuals, groups and spaces are lost. Therefore, the article authors’ opinion is that, basically and logically, post-structuralism is something impossible, unreasonable, dimensionless, and a meaningless term. Keywords Communication space Decay and disintegration Dual oppositions Post-structuralism Structuralism
Introduction Post-structuralism is the title of one of the idealist schools that came out of the structuralism school and gradually evolved from the second half of the twentieth century and, as a radical viewpoint, involved many social and human sciences, including geography. Although this view has the same root with structuralism school at its origins, it has gradually become far from the school while having conceptual development and even criticized it. Nevertheless, the
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followers of this school have the same view in some of the underlying assumptions of the structuralism school such as relativism, historicism, the elimination of the subject, and the emphasis on the social context of knowledge. According to some post-s
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