Opis: Spatial Questions - Rob Shields

Space inevitably plays an important role in our social lives. When talking to our neighbours, reading the newspaper, going to the gym, answering an e-mail, we all draw on our presuppositions and understanding of space and time. This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet highly present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Shields convincingly presents the importance of spatialization and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lies within these theoretical tools. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of spatiality and temporality, seeking to understand the multiplicity of spatializations and relate them to our everyday life. 'Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology' -- John Urry 20130719List of Illustrations About the Author Preface and Acknowledgements Overtures From the Shan Hai Jing to Herodotus' Historiae and to Idrisi's Kitab Nuzhat Mediterranean Geographies Spatialisation and Space-Time The Argument of this Book Spatialisations Space as Problem: Etymology/Translation 'L'espace Lefebvre' Respecting Lefebvre: Critical Tensions The Spatialisations of Places and Regions Memorial and Anticipatory Spatialisation: Time-Spaces Vieux Quebec: The Example of Tourist Practices Histories of Space Mediterranean Geometric Space Northern Europe: Mathematical Space Dimensionality: Three, Four or More? Flatness Relativistic Space The Socialness of Space Recognising Spatialisation Marx: The Economics of Land Engels: Inequality and the Built Environment Simmel: Spatial Projections of Social Forms Cultural Understanding of Space: Emile Durkheim Physical Planning, Land Use Planning, Spatialisation and Spatial Semantics Spatial Struggles Discourses on Space Topologies 'Another Kind of Analysis' - Beyond Geometry Connectivity and Schematics Geometry and Topology The Seven Bridges of Konigsburg Non-Euclidean Space The Topological Sensorium Dimensionality and Orientability Topological Archetypes: Folds, Bridges, Labyrinths The 'Plushness' of the Real Cultural Topology Diagrams Deleuze Folding Foucault Heterotopias of Scale Scale and Topology Topology and the Social - Networks, Surfaces and Milieux Relations and Boundary Objects Cultural Topology A Topology of Experience The Cusp Glossary of Terms References Index

Szczegóły: Spatial Questions - Rob Shields

Tytuł: Spatial Questions
Autor: Rob Shields
Producent: SAGE Publications Ltd
ISBN: 9781848606654
Rok produkcji: 2013
Ilość stron: 216
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.34 kg

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