Space

Space: Critical Concepts in Geography

Edited by Peter Merriman

Volume I: Foundational Texts

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction - ‘Space’: Outlining a Key Concept, by Peter Merriman

1. René Descartes, ‘The Principles of Material Things (extracts from Part 2 of Principles of Philosophy)’, in J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff and D. Murdoch (translators), The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Volume 1, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 [originally published in Latin, 1644), pp.223-47.
2. Isaac Newton, ‘Scholium to the Definitions’, in The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Volume I), (London: HD Symonds, 1803 [originally published in Latin, 1686]), pp.6-14.
3. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, ‘Extracts from the Third and Fifth Papers to Samuel Clarke’, in H.G. Alexander (ed.), The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1956 [originally published in English, 1717]), pp.25-26, 63-64, 66-78, 89.
4. Immanuel Kant, ‘The Transcendental Aesthetic’, in Marcus Weigelt (trans.) Critique of Pure Reason, (London: Penguin, 2007 [originally published in German, 1781]), pp.61-84, 674-676.
5. Albert Einstein, ‘Relativity and the Problem of Space (Appendix 5)’, in Relativity: The Special and General Theory, (London: Routledge, 2001 [originally published in 1916]), pp.139-158.

Part 2: Geographical Interpretations, Advancements, and Translations

6. Richard Hartshorne, ‘The Concept of Geography as a Science of Space, from Kant and Humboldt to Hettner’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 48, 2, 1958, pp.97-108.
7. Fred Lukermann, ‘The Concept of Location in Classical Geography’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 51, 2, 1961, pp.194-210.
8. James M. Blaut, ‘Space and Process’, The Professional Geographer, 13, 4, 1961, pp.1-7.
9. John D. Nystuen, ‘Identification of Some Fundamental Spatial Concepts’, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 48, 1963, pp.373-384.
10. David Harvey, ‘Geometry – the Language of Spatial Form’, in Explanation in Geography, (London: Edward Arnold, 1969), pp.191-229.
11. Robert D. Sack, ‘The Spatial Separatist Theme in Geography’, Economic Geography, 50, 1, 1974, pp.1-19.
12. David Harvey, ‘Between Space and Time: Reflections on the Geographical Imagination’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 80, 3, 1990, pp.418-434.
13. Doreen Massey, ‘Space-Time, "Science" and the Relationship Between Physical Geography and Human Geography’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 24, 3, 1999, pp.261-276.
14. Neil Smith, ‘Space and Substance in Geography’, in P. Cloke, P. Crang and M. Goodwin (eds), Envisioning Human Geographies, (London: Arnold, 2004), pp.11-29.
15. Rob Shields, ‘Knowing Space’, Theory, Culture and Society, 23, 2-3, 2006, pp.147-149.
16. Joel Wainwright and Trevor J. Barnes, ‘Nature, Economy, and the Space　–　Place Distinction’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27, 6, 2009, pp.966-986.
17. Peter Gould, ‘Space and Rum: an English Note on Espacien and Rumian Meaning’, Geografiska Annaler B, 63, 1, 1981, pp.1-3.
18. Kenneth R. Olwig, ‘The Duplicity of Space: Germanic "Raum" and Swedish "Rum" in English Language Geographical Discourse’, Geografiska Annaler B, 84, 1, 2002, pp.1-17.

　

Volume II: Productions: Socialities, Politics, Structures

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Part 3: Social Space

19. Georg Simmel, ‘The Sociology of Space’, in D. Frisby and M. Featherstone (eds), Simmel on Culture, (London: Sage, 1997 [originally published in German, 1903]), pp.137-170.
20. Anne Buttimer, ‘Social Space in Interdisciplinary Perspective’, Geographical Review, 59, 3, 1969, pp.417-426.
21. David Harvey, ‘Social Processes and Spatial Form: an Analysis of the Conceptual Problems of Urban Planning’, Papers of the Regional Science Association, 25, 1, 1970, pp.47-69.

Part 4: Politics, Power, and Capitalist Spatialities

22. Henri Lefebvre, Extract from ‘The Plan of the Present Work’, in The Production of Space, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991 [originally published in French, 1974]), pp.36-46.
23. Edward W. Soja, ‘The Socio-Spatial Dialectic’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 70, 2, 1980, pp.207-225.
24. Doreen Massey, ‘Politics and Space/Time’, New Left Review, 196, 1992, pp.65-84.
25. Neil Smith and Cindi Katz, ‘Grounding Metaphor: Towards a Spatialised Politics’, in M. Keith and S. Pile (eds), Place and the Politics of Identity, (London: Routledge, 1993), pp.67-83.
26. David Harvey, ‘Globalization and the Spatial Fix’, Geographische Revue, 3, 2, 2001, pp.23-30.
27. Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell, ‘Neoliberalizing Space’, Antipode, 34, 3, 2002, pp.380-404.
28. Noel Castree, ‘The Spatio-Temporality of Capitalism’, Time and Society, 18, 1, 2009, pp.26-61.
29. Michel Foucault, ‘Space, Knowledge and Power’, Skyline: The Architecture and Design Review, March 1982, pp.16-20.
30. John Allen, ‘The Whereabouts of Power: Politics, Government and Space’, Geografisker Annaler B, 86, 1, 2004, pp.19-32.
31. David Harvey, ‘Space as a Keyword’, in N. Castree and D. Gregory (eds), David Harvey: A Critical Reader, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp.270-293.
32. Mustafa Dikec, ‘Space as a Mode of Political Thinking’, Geoforum, 43, 4, 2012, pp.669-676.
33. Helga Leitner, Eric Sheppard and Kristin M. Sziarto, ‘The Spatialities of Contentious Politics’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33, 2, 2008, pp.157-172.

Part 5: Contexts and Structures

34. Michel Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’, diacritics, 16, 1, 1986 [originally drafted in French, 1967], pp.22-27.
35. James M. Blaut, ‘Space, Structure and Maps’, Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 62, 1, 1971, pp.18-21.
36. Torsten Hägerstrand, ‘Space, Time and Human Conditions’, in A. Karlqvist, L. Lundqvist and F. Snickars (eds), Dynamic Allocation of Urban Space, (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1975), pp.3-14.
37. Anthony Giddens, ‘The Time-Space Constitution of Social Systems’, in The Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism Vol.1: Power, Property and the State, (London: Macmillan, 1981), pp.26-48, 254-257.
38. Allan Pred, ‘Contexts and Bodies in Flux: Some Comments on Space and Time in the Writings of Anthony Giddens’, in J. Clark, C. Modgil and S. Modgil (eds), Anthony Giddens: Consensus and Controversy, (London: Falmer, 1990), pp.117-129.
39. Nigel Thrift, ‘On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1, 1, 1983, pp.23-57.
40. John Shotter, ‘Accounting for Place and Space’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 3, 4, 1985, pp.447-460.
41. Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner　and Martin Jones, ‘Theorizing Sociospatial Relations’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26, 3, 2008, pp.389-401.

Part 6: Networks, Spheres, Relations

42. Jonathan Murdoch, ‘The Spaces of Actor-Network Theory’, Geoforum, 29, 4, 1998, pp.357-374.
43. Ash Amin, ‘Spatialities of Globalisation’, Environment and Planning A, 34, 3, 2002, pp.385-399.
44. Sallie A. Marston, John-Paul Jones III and Keith Woodward, ‘Human Geography Without Scale’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30, 4, 2005, pp.416-432.
45. Martin Jones, ‘Phase Space: Geography, Relational Thinking, and Beyond’, Progress in Human Geography, 33, 4, 2009, pp.487-506.
46. Peter Sloterdijk, ‘Spheres Theory: Talking to Myself about the Poetics of Space’, Harvard Design Magazine, 30, Spring/Summer 2009, pp.126-137.
47. Bruno Latour, ‘Spheres and Networks: Two Ways to Reinterpret Globalization’, Harvard Design Magazine, 30, Spring/Summer 2009, pp.138-144.
48. Lauren Martin and Anna J. Secor, ‘Towards a Post-Mathematical Topology’, Progress in Human Geography, 38, 3, 2014, pp.420-438.

　

　

　

　

Volume III: Inhabiting: Bodies, Subjects and Positions

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Part 7: Phenomenological and Existential Spatialities

49. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ‘The Spatiality of One’s Own Body and Motility’, in Phenomenology of Perception, (London: Routledge, 2002 [originally published in French, 1945]), pp.112-170.
50. Martin Heidegger, ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’, in D. Farrell Krell (ed.), Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978 [ originally prepared in German, 1951]), pp.323-339.
51. David Lowenthal, ‘Geography, Experience and Imagination: Towards a Geogrpahical Epistemology’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 51, 3, 1961, pp.241-260.
52. Edward Hall, ‘Distance in Man’, in The Hidden Dimension, (London: The Bodley Head, 1966), pp.107-122.
53. Anne Buttimer, ‘Grasping the Dynamism of the Lifeworld’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 66, 2, 1976, pp.277-292.
54. Christian van Paassen, ‘Human Geography in Terms of Existential Anthropology’, Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 67, 6, 1976, pp.324-341.
55. J. Nicholas Entrikin, ‘Geography’s Spatial Perspective and the Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer’, The Canadian Geographer, 21, 3, 1977, pp.209-222.
56. Yi-Fu Tuan, ‘Space, Time, Place: A Humanistic Frame’, in T. Carlstein, D. Parkes and N. Thrift (eds), Timing Space and Spacing Time Volume 1: Making Sense of Time, (London: Edward Arnold, 1978), pp.7-16.
57. David Seamon, ‘Body-Subject, Time-Space Routines, and Place-Ballets’, in A. Buttimer and D. Seamon (eds), The Human Experience of Space and Place, (London: Croom Helm, 1980), pp.148-165.
58. Tim Ingold, ‘Against Space: Place, Movement, Knowledge’, in P.W. Kirby (ed.), Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach to Movement, (Oxford: Berghahn, 2009), pp.29-43.

Part 8: Spaces of the Body, Subject and Psyche

59. Elizabeth Grosz, ‘Space, Time and Bodies’, in Space, Time and Perversion, (London: Routledge, 1995), pp.83-101, 237.
60. Kathleen M. Kirby, ‘Thinking Through the Boundary: the Politics of Location, Subjects, and Space’, boundary 2, 20, 2, 1993, pp.173-189.
61. Kirsten Simonsen, ‘Practice, Spatiality and Embodied Emotions: An Outline of a Geography of Practice’, Human Affairs, 17, 2, 2007, pp.168-181.
62. Setha M. Low, ‘Embodied Space(s): Anthropological Theories of Body Space, and Culture’, Space and Culture, 6, 1, 2003, pp.9-18.

Part 9: Feminism, Queer Theory and Other Spaces

63. Bell hooks, ‘Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness’, in Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990), pp.145-153.
64. Rosalyn Deutsch, ‘Men in Space’, in Evictions, (London: MIT, 1996), pp.195-202.
65. Linda McDowell, ‘Spatializing Feminism: Geographical Perspectives’, in N. Duncan (ed.) Bodyspace, (London: Routledge, 1996), pp.28-44.
66. Gillian Rose, ‘A Politics of Paradoxical Space’, in Feminism and Geography (Cambridge: Polity, 1993), pp.137-160, 197-201.
67. Julie Lossau, ‘Pitfalls of (Third) Space: Rethinking the Ambivalent Logic of Spatial Semantics’, in K. Ikas and G. Wagner (eds), Communicating in the Third Space, (London: Routledge, 2009), pp.62-78.
68. Bob Hodge, ‘White Australia and the Aboriginal Invention of Space’, in R. Barcan and I. Buchanan (eds), Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry, (Nedlands, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), pp.59-73.
69. Natalie Oswin, ‘Critical Geographies and the Uses of Sexuality: Deconstructing Queer Space’, Progress in Human Geography, 32, 1, 2008, pp.89-103.

　

Volume IV: Vibrant Spaces: Process, Materiality, Creativity

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Part 10: Post-Structuralism, Language and Spatial Practices

70. Michel de Certeau, ‘Spatial Stories’, in The Practice of Everyday Life, (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1984 [originally published in French, 1980]), pp.115-130, 221-222.
71. Gunnar Olsson, ‘The Social Space of Silence’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 5, 3, 1987, pp.249-262.
72. Chris Philo, ‘Foucault’s Geography’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, 2, 1992, pp.137-161.
73. Marcus A. Doel, ‘A Hundred Thousand Lines of Flight: a Machinic Introduction to the Nomad Thought and Scrumpled Geography of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari,’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 14, 4, 1996, pp.421-439.
74. Jean Baudrillard, ‘Hyperreal America’, Economy and Society, 22, 2, 1993, pp.243-252.
75. Bruno Latour, ‘Trains of Thought: Piaget, Formalism and the Fifth Dimension’, Common Knowledge, 6, 3, 1997, pp.170-191.
76. Verena Andermatt Conley, ‘Processual Practices’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 100, 2, 2001, pp.483-500.
77. Gillian Rose, ‘Performing Space’, in D. Massey, J. Allen and P. Sarre (eds) Human Geography Today, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999), pp.247-259.
78. Nigel Thrift, ‘Space’, Theory, Culture and Society, 23, 2-3, 2006, pp.139-155.
79. Peter Merriman, ‘Human Geography Without Time-Space’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37, 1, 2012, pp.13-27.

Part 11: Materiality, Technology and Space

80. Karen Barad, ‘Re(con)figuring Space, Time, and Matter’, in M. DeKoven (ed.) Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice, (London: Rutgers University Press, 2001), pp.75-109.
81. John Law, ‘Objects and Spaces’, Theory, Culture and Society, 19, 5-6, 2002, pp.91-105.
82. Nigel Thrift and Shaun French, ‘The Automatic Production of Space’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 27, 3, 2002, pp.309-335.

Part 12: Creative Movements and Aesthetic Practices

83. David Harvey, ‘Time-Space Compression and the Rise of Modernism as a Cultural Force’, in The Condition of Postmodernity, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), pp.260-283.
84. Bernard Tschumi, ‘Questions of Space’, in Architecture and Disjunction, (London: MIT Press, 1996), pp.53-62.
85. Thomas F. McDonough, ‘Situationist Space’, October, 67, 1994, pp.59-77.
86. Laura McMahon, ‘Jean-Luc Nancy and the Spacing of the World’, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 15, 5, 2011, pp.623-631.
87. Derek Gregory, ‘Cultures of Travel and Spatial Formations of Knowledge’, Erdkunde, 54, 4, 2000, pp.297-319.
88. Derek P. McCormack, ‘Geographies for Moving Bodies: Thinking, Dancing, Spaces’, Geography Compass, 2, 6, 2008, pp.1822-1836.

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Edited by Peter Merriman