Thinking Space.
Title:
Thinking Space.
Author:
Crang, Mike.
ISBN:
9780203411148
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (398 pages)
Series:
Critical Geographies
Contents:
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 andmovement -- 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 travellers: 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.
Abstract:
As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide range of prolific social theorists. Included contributions from an impressive range of renowned geographical writers, each examine the work of one writer - ranging from early this century to contemporary writers. Among the writers discussed are Georg Simmel, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gilles Deleuze, Helene Cixous, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Lacan, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault and Franz Fanon. Ideal for those interested in the 'spatial turn' in social and cultural theory, this fascinating book asks what role space plays in the work of such theorists, what difference (if any) it makes to their concepts, and what difference such an appreciation makes to the way we might think about space.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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