Postmodernism emerged in the 1980s as a reaction against modernism and its ideas of logic, objectivity, and rationality. Postmodernism rejects the idea of grand narratives or objective truths about society and history, arguing that all perspectives are influenced by factors like gender and class. It is a theoretical approach in geography that questions authoritative definitions and blurs distinctions between high and popular culture.
1. Post modernism
Geography in 21st century : The future of geography
presenter : Abdul Rahim
roll: Geo203005
Department of Geography
2. Postmodernism can be seen as a reaction
against the ideas and values of modernism,
as well as a description of the period that
followed modernism's dominance in cultural
theory and practice in the early and middle
decades of the twentieth century.
3. Modernism and Geography. Modernist texts
engage with the geographical instabilities
of. the early twentieth century. New nation
states were emerg- ing, cities were
expanding, natural landscapes were
disappearing and the geographical
boundaries of nation states were redrawn.
4. According to the Oxford Dictionary of
Geography, postmodernism is '
philosophical stance which claims that it is
impossible to take grand statements –
meta-narratives –about the structure of
society or about historic causation because
everything we perceive, express, and
interpret is influenced by our gender, class.
5. The idea of postmodernism originated in
the 1980s which was against the ideas of
modernism like logic, objectivity,
rationality, and model development and it
also developed to address social problems.
Postmodernism:
Postmodernism is an idea that is a vague
and loosely defined term.
The idea of postmodernism is a
convergence of many perspectives and
theories. It is primarily a theoretical
approach to geography.
6. Its main characteristics include anti-
authoritarianism, or refusal to recognize the
authority of any single style or definition of
what art should be; and the collapsing of
the distinction between high culture and
mass or popular culture, and between art
and everyday life.
