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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784096303321

Titolo

Thinking space / / edited by Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-72117-X

1-134-72118-8

1-280-32253-5

0-203-41114-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Critical geographies ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

CrangMike

ThriftN. J

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Scaling (Social sciences)

Space in economics

Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ur-texts and starting points; Walter Benjamin's urban thought: a critical analysis; On Georg Simmel: proximity, distance and movement; Mikhail Bakhtin: dialogics of space; Wittgenstein and the fabric of everyday life; Reformulated spaces: decolonisation, the wake of '68; Un-glunking geography: spatial science after Dr Seuss and Gilles Deleuze; Relics, places and unwritten geographies in the work of Michel de Certeau (1925  86); Helne Cixous

Henri Lefebvre: a socialist in space Jacques Lacan's two-dimensional subjectivity; Foucault's geography; Pierre Bourdieu; The troubled spaces of Frantz Fanon; Refiguring spaces in the present; Some new instructions for travelers: the geography of Bruno Latour and Michel Serres; Edward Said's imaginative geographies; 'Alternative' film or 'other' film? In and against the West with Trinh Minh-ha; Thinking geopolitical space: the spatiality of war, speed and vision in the work of Paul Virilio; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Thinking Space looks at a range of social theorists and asks what role space plays in their work, what difference (if any) it makes to their concepts, and what difference such an appreciation makes to the way we might think about space.