While often eluding the attention of the everyman, 'space' has been
a longstanding concern of geographers (and of great interest to
scholars from many other parts of the academy). 'Space' has been
variously treated as absolute, relative, and relational; as a
container or backdrop; as a social, aesthetic, and material
construct or production; as marked by geographies of power and
social difference; as an experiential or perceptual realm; as
represented and not representable; as topographical and
topological; and as fixed and in constant flux. Now, this new title
from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Geography series provides the
first authoritative reference work to enable users to make sense of
space and spatiality in geography, and in related disciplines.
Edited by Peter Merriman, a prominent cultural geographer and
author of Mobility, Space and Culture (Routledge 2012), Space is a
four-volume collection of classic and cutting-edge contributions.
The gathered works in Volume I explicate the philosophical and
scientific foundations of contemporary thinking about space and
spatiality, while the second volume examines the production of
social, economic, and political spaces-tracing, for example, the
emergence of social space in sociology and geography; Marxist
writings on the socio-political production of capitalist spaces;
studies of the spatialities of power; and different approaches to
the emergence and constitution of spatial structures, networks, and
relations. Volume III brings together important pieces on
inhabitation, dwelling, and spaces of embodiment, identity, and
difference. The final volume in the collection focuses on the
vibrant and dynamic spatialities of the world, including
poststructuralist examinations of how space is practised,
performed, and in process; literature on the vibrant materiality,
hybridity, and technological production of spaces; and a selection
of major works which explore the cultural representation and
articulation of spaces. With comprehensive introductions which
situate the assembled materials in their historical and
intellectual context, Space is an essential reference work for
scholars and students concerned with the intersection of theories
of space and place with questions of culture, politics, society,
economics, power, identity, difference, and materiality.
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