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Martin W. Lewis was born on 1956 in Coos Bay, Oregon, is an American historical geographer. Discover Martin W. Lewis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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1956

Martin W. Lewis (born 1956 in Coos Bay Oregon) is an American historical geographer, author, and academic.

He is a senior lecturer emeritus in History at Stanford University.

Lewis was born in 1956 in Coos Bay, Oregon.

1975

He graduated from Calaveras High School in San Andreas, California in 1975 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979, followed by a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 and 1987, respectively.

Lewis' early academic focus was on the interplay between economic development, environmental degradation, and cultural change in the highlands of northern Luzon in the Philippines, explored in his dissertation and first book.

He also wrote on environmental philosophy.

1992

His 1992 book Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism is often seen as a forerunner of the ecomodernist movement.

As of 2024, Lewis is a senior scholar at the Breakthrough Institute.

1997

Later, in collaboration with Kären Wigen, Lewis critically examined metageography in The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (University of California Press, 1997).

Lewis co-authored a world geography textbook, Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (Pearson), and served as the former associate editor of The Geographical Review.

2002

After teaching at George Washington University and Duke University, Lewis joined Stanford in 2002, studying and writing mostly about global geography.

2010

In a 2010 interview he gave to Leonhardt van Efferink from Exploring Geopolitics, Lewis defined metageography as the often overlooked spatial frameworks through which knowledge is organized in social sciences and humanities.

He criticized metageographies for oversimplifying the world and transforming specific places into cultural essences.

Lewis argued that metageographical constructs are inherently ideological and influenced by different ideological systems.

While acknowledging metageographies as intellectual constructs, he rejected the notion that they are merely social constructs.

Regarding postmodernism, Lewis appreciated its questioning of received categories but criticized its tendency to erase its own position and indulge in too much theory.

He noted the fallacy of unit comparability, challenging the practice of portraying all countries as comparable units, and advocated for a cosmopolitan perspective that pays attention to all parts of the world and organizes information based on size and population.

Lewis is married to Karen Wigen.

They have two children Evan and Eleanor.

2015

His interest in historical geography led to work on historical linguistics, culminating in the publication of The Indo-European Controversy (with linguist Asya Pereltsvaig) in 2015.

Lewis publishes a blog called GeoCurrents that examines a wide variety of geographical and historical topics and includes many original maps.