(January 1984) " The history and present condition of Geography: an historical materialist manifesto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDoIMT-Dbyo," YouTube video, 1:10:15, posted by "IGU Channel," May 7, 2014.
“Critique in its many manifestations puts up a common opposition to instrumental rationality, because such a rationality can be linked to control in the human condition in a similar way to the idea of power in the control of the natural world.”
Robert L. Flood (1990) Liberating Systems Theory p. 204; as cited in: Trudi Cooper (2003) Critical Management, Critical Systems Theory And System Dynamics http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/ejrot/cmsconference/2003/proceedings/orsystems/Cooper.pdf.
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