Postmodernism became prevalent in human geography in the late 1980s. It rejects the notion of absolute truth and modernism's belief in objective truth, instead arguing that individual life experiences lead to personal truths that cannot be proven wrong. Postmodernism is a subjective approach that emphasizes differing individual values and beliefs over universal experiences. It was an critique of modernism and its rational, scientific thinking.

1. Towards post modernism: Geography in
the 21st century, Future of geography

2. Postmodernism
. In the late 1980’s the postmodernism became a trend in human
geography. Postmodernism is a theoretical approach to human
geography. This approach is born as an critique approach against
the modernism. The postmodernism rejects the theory of the
modernism. That means that the postmodernism doesn’t believe in
the absolute truth and that every person has it’s own truth. Nobody is
able to doubt about others truth because life-experiences and
personal visions create a personal truth. This is for every person
different. Therefor nobody can be wrong about the truth. In short
postmodernists seemed to throw reason itself into doubt. Everything
is a subjective

3. Characteristic of Postmodernism
Postmodernism was prevalent from the mid-twentieth century.
This approach is born as an critique approach against the modernism. The
postmodernism rejects the theory of the modernism.
Postmodernism was influenced by the second world war.
Postmodernism was based on an unscientific, irrational thought process, and it
rejected logical thinking.
The word “subjective” refers to the individual perspective rather than some
sort of universal experience. Postmodernism emphasises our individual
values and beliefs.
Nobody is able to doubt about others truth because life experiences and personal
visions create a personal truth.

4. What do postmodernists believe?
Many postmodernists hold one or more of the following views:
(1) there is no objective reality; (2) there is no scientific or
historical truth (objective truth); (3) science and technology
(and even reason and logic) are not vehicles of human progress
but suspect instruments of established power; (4) reason and
logic are not universally valid; (5) there is no such thing
as human nature (human behavior and psychology are socially
determined or constructed); (6) language does not refer to a
reality outside itself; (7) there is no certain knowledge; and (8)
no general theory of the natural or social world can be valid or
true (all are illegitimate “metanarratives”).

5. geography in 21st century
Teaching geography in the 21st Century
includes working with mobile and online
mapping tools, in addition to traditional focuses
such as physical and cultural geography,
fieldwork, and understanding landscapes.

6. Teaching geography in
the 21st Century includes
working with mobile and
online mapping tools, in
addition to traditional
focuses such as physical
and cultural geography,
fieldwork, and
understanding