"The twentieth century has witnessed at least two major rifts in geography with lasting effect on the discipline. One is the separation of physical geography from human geography, which stemmed from the ontological separation of nature and society in geographic discourses. The other is the separation of spatial-analytical geographies from social-cultural geographies through attempts to create a mode of disembodied geographical analysis that separate spatial patterns and relations from social, cultural, and political processes. As a result of this separation and subsequent rounds of critiques through Marxist, humanist, feminist, poststructuralist, postcolonialist, queer, and other critical perspectives, social-cultural and spatial-analytical geographies are increasingly perceived or represented as irreconcilable spheres of geographical endeavors. In the process, human geographers have become identified in binary and pejorative terms: social theorists and postmodernists on the one hand, and spatial analysts, quantifiers, or GISers on the other."