“…Chief influences here came from poststructuralist, postmodernist, and feminist geographers. An early expression of this concern can be found in the exchange between David Sibley and Richard Walker (Sibley, 1981a(Sibley, , 1981bWalker, 1981) about the role of order in centralized states and scholarly inquiry. Towards the end of the 1980s, the debate intensifies around the related notions of positionality, the inherently political character of discourse, and particularity (Dear, 1988;Soja, 1989).…”