Recalcitrant space: modeling variation in humanistic geography

Abstract

In the past decade humanistic geography has been roundly criticized by influential geographers for offering essentialist conceptions of place. In this paper it is argued that essentialism is not intrinsic to these conceptions, and a model of 'recalcitrant space' is presented to show how amenable humanistic geographies are to constructivist adaptations that foreground variation in subjective encounters with place.

Ideas of home in palliative care research: A concept analysis

“…The results show that two attributes clearly attend to the importance of the private home for peoples' experience of health and identity, which relates to findings in previous research and to its central position in processes of palliative care and dying, also reflecting earlier findings . The exploration of geographical perspectives in the further analysis show that both attributes relate to central perspectives within humanistic geography where place is “subjectively understood, experienced and created through complex intersections of meanings, emotions and habitual behaviors in material locations” (p. 176), and perspectives of home as both a relational and an absolute space occur. These results we think reflect the humanistic foundation of nursing science, and were therefore not surprising.…”