Present a critical review of contemporary geographical debates which focus upon culture and economy.
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Laura Kelly BA (Hons) Geography Reg: 199938141 Dr. Mark Boyle Geographical Ideas and Debates 'Present a critical review of contemporary geographical debates which focus upon,... Culture and Economy' Following a rejection of the positivist approach in the discipline of human geography, an emergence of a relevance debate became apparent. Geographers became increasingly concerned with making geography relevant to and critical of real world problems. This relevance debate then gave rise to an opening up of geographical sub-disciplines, including those disciplines of cultural geography and economic geography. During the course of this essay I will offer a critical review of the contemporary culture-economy debate within human geography, starting with a historical account of the evolution of the debate, before reviewing the different aspects and voices of the debate, whilst critically engaging with these, and then finally to articulate my stance in the contemporary debate. Firstly, it is important to understand the evolution of the contemporary debate, in order to...


