1st Edition
The Spatial Turn Interdisciplinary Perspectives
256 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Across the disciplines, the study of space has undergone a profound and sustained transformation. Space, place, mapping, and geographical imaginations have become commonplace topics in a variety of analytical fields in part because globalization has accentuated the significance of location. While this transformation has led to a renaissance in human geography, it also has manifested itself in the... Read more
1. Introduction (Barney Warf and Santa Arias) 2. Taking Space Personally (Edward W. Soja) 3. Spacing Movements (Sebastián Cobarrubias and John Pickles) 4. From Surfaces to Networks (Barney Warf) 5. Geography, Postcommunism, and Comparative Politics (Jeffrey Kopstein) 6. Retheorizing Global Space in Sociology (Harry Dahms) 7. Sex and the Modern City (Pamela K. Gilbert) 8. The Geopolitics of Historiography from Europe to the Americas (Santa Arias) 9. "To See a World in a Grain of Sand": Space and Place on an Ethnographical Journey in Colombia (Margarita Serje) 10. Spatiality and Religion (John Corrigan) 11. The Cultural Production of Space in Colonial Latin America (Mariselle Meléndez) 12. Documentary as a Space of Intuition (Joan Ramon Resina)
Biography
Barney Warf is Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography, particularly economic and political issues.
Santa Arias is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. She specializes in the literatures of colonial Latin America and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and culture.