Beschreibung:
This book analyses approaches to space, identifying commonalities, and explores how and why differences appear. It includes thirteen essays by authors from America, Canada, Europe and Latin America and will appeal to everyone conducting conceptual and theoretical research on space in geography and other related fields.
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)