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Space inevitably plays an important role in our social lives. When talking to our neighbors, reading the newspaper, going the gym, answering an e-mail, we all draw on our presuppositions and understanding of spatiality and temporality.
This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Rob 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 time and space, seeking to understand the multiplicity of spatializations and relate them to our everyday life.
Contents
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 Königsburg
- 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
Additional materials
Description
Space inevitably plays an important role in our social lives. When talking to our neighbors, reading the newspaper, going the gym, answering an e-mail, we all draw on our presuppositions and understanding of spatiality and temporality.
This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Rob 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 time and space, seeking to understand the multiplicity of spatializations and relate them to our everyday life.
Contents
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 Königsburg
- 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
Additional materials
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September 2013 | 216 pages | Sage UK
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 31/03/2026 | 9781848606647 | $221.00 |
| Paperback | 31/03/2026 | 9781848606654 | $114.00 |
| Lifetime | 28/03/2023 | 9781446286739 | $97.00 |
| 180 Day Ebook | 28/03/2023 | 9781446286739 | $67.00 |
Space inevitably plays an important role in our social lives. When talking to our neighbors, reading the newspaper, going the gym, answering an e-mail, we all draw on our presuppositions and understanding of spatiality and temporality.
This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Rob 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 time and space, seeking to understand the multiplicity of spatializations and relate them to our everyday life.
Table Of Contents:
- 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 Königsburg
- 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