Thinking of Space Relationally
Thinking of Space Relationally

Author: Xiaoxue Gao

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 3839455871

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Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transformations. Yet, when leaving the gaps between the traveling and local epistemic assumptions unattended, engaging relational spatial theories in empirical research may still reproduce established theoretical claims. Following the sociology of knowledge tradition and taking Critical Realism as a meta-theoretical framework, Xiaoxue Gao takes relational spatial theories as traveling conceptual knowledge and develops meaningful and context-sensitive ways of engaging them in studying the complex urban phenomenon in China. She offers conceptual elucidations and methodological roadmaps, which leap productively from employing plural causal hypotheses to generating effect-based explanations for locally observable events. They are exemplified by manifold interrogations of Beijing's Artworld as a conjuncture of particular events.

For Space
For Space

Author: Doreen Massey

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-03-09

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781412903622

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Questioning the implicit assumptions that we make about space, this text considers conventional notions of social science, as well as demonstrating how a vigorous understanding of space can impact on political consequences.

Flirting with Space
Flirting with Space

Author: Professor David Crouch

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1409488802

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The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book. Space is conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through various contexts in our daily lives, and is considered in relation to encounters with complexities and flows of material culture. This book focuses on journeys, which are perceived as dynamic processes of contemporary life and its spaces, and how creativity happens in the inter-relations of space and journeys encourage creativity. Unravelled through a range of empirical case studies of journeys through and encountered with space, this book builds new critical syntheses of the intertwining of space and life. Based on investigations undertaken by the author over the past 20 years, it explores the mundane and the exotic, the 'lay' and the 'artistic', combining and inter-relating them in a diversity of time and expression, fleeting and surviving. Such investigations, using both visual and non-visual material, include examinations of allotment holding, the work of artists, caravanning and tourism, photography and parish maps. The analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects are linked together and build on each other to create a fascinating and original view of humanity's interaction with space. Included are fresh discussions of belonging, disorientation and the working of identity and play. The notion of 'gentle politics' is introduced.

Spatial Politics
Spatial Politics

Author: David Featherstone

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-11-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1118278836

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This critical engagement with Doreen Massey’s ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking she has helped to shape. It seeks to mark and take forward her compelling contributions to geographical theorizing and political debate. High profile contributors include Lawrence Grossberg, Chantal Mouffe, Jamie Peck and Jane Wills The global reach and significance of Massey’s work recommends this volume to a diverse readership Provides an agenda for work on spatial politics and critical geography Sets out the contours of a human geography informed by Doreen Massey’s work

Making Transformative Geographies
Making Transformative Geographies

Author: Benedikt Schmid

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 383945140X

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In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with human prosperity and ecological limits seems increasingly implausible. Tracing and dissecting the complexities of social change, »Making Transformative Geographies« speaks about the development of visions, alternatives, and strategies for a radical transformation beyond accumulation and growth. Covering an empirical sample of 24 eco-social organizations, projects, and groupings in the city of Stuttgart (Germany), the book drills down into the social, spatial, and strategic dimensions of transformation. It advances a conceptually and empirically grounded assessment of the possibilities and limitations of community activism and civic engagement for shifting transformative geographies towards a degrowth trajectory.

Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory
Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory

Author: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1317352998

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This handbook sets out an innovative approach to the theory of law, reconceptualising it in a material, embodied, socially contextualised and politically radical way. The book consists of original contributions authored by prominent academics, all of whom provide a valuable overview of legal theory as a discipline. The book contains five sections: • Spatiotemporal • Sense • Body • Text • Matter Through this structure, the handbook brings the law into active discussion with other disciplines, as well as supra-disciplinary debates on the areas of spatiality, temporality, materiality, corporeality and sensorial studies, capturing the most exciting developments in current legal theory, and anticipating future research in the area. The handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of jurisprudence, sociology of law, critical legal studies, socio-legal theory and interdisciplinary legal studies, as well as those people from other disciplines interested in the way the law converses with interdisciplinarity. Chapter 12 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

STEM THINKING SKILLS in Spatial Relation and Spatial Ability
STEM THINKING SKILLS in Spatial Relation and Spatial Ability

Author: Srini Chelimilla

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 9781697408843

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Spatial ability is becoming increasingly important with the development of new technologies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM). Ability to understand organization of objects in space and applying spatial reasoning are becoming important for success in solving many tasks in everyday life. "STEM Thinking in Spatial Relation and Spatial Ability" provide a solid foundation to fundamental skills. This book helps to: - Improve the ability to deduce relationships between mechanical parts (Mechanical Reasoning).- Improve the ability to visualize 2-D figures and better understand 3 dimensional spatial visualization (Spatial Relational Thinking )- Improve the ability to find logical relationships in figure patterns (Abstract Reasoning)This book covers: SPATIAL ABILITY - MECHANICAL REASONING(40 Questions)Three-Dimensional SPATIAL RELATIONAL THINKING(35 Questions)Two-dimensional SPATIAL RELATIONAL THINKING(30 Questions)SPATIAL THINKING - ABSTRACT REASONING(30 Questions)SPATIAL ABILITY - RELATIONAL THINKING(5 Questions)ONE FULL LENGTH PRACTICE TEST with Answers (20 Questions)

Soft Spaces in Europe
Soft Spaces in Europe

Author: Phil Allmendinger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 131766633X

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The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new, non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe, in a variety of circumstances, and with diverse aims and rationales. This book moves beyond theory to examine the practice of soft spaces. It employs an empirical approach to better understand the various practices and rationalities of soft spaces and how they manifest themselves in different planning contexts. By looking at the effects of new forms of spatial governance and the role of spatial planning in North-western Europe, this book analyses discursive changes in planning policies in selected metropolitan areas and cross-border regions. The result is an exploration of how these processes influence the emergence of soft spaces, governance arrangements and the role of statutory planning in different contexts. This book provides a deeper understanding of space and place, territorial governance and network governance.

Regional Worlds: Advancing the Geography of Regions
Regional Worlds: Advancing the Geography of Regions

Author: Martin Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1317526562

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A key concern in the debate and empirical research on the geography of regions is the evolution of the conceptualizations and practical uses of the idea of ‘region’. This idea prioritises both the intellectual and the practical development of regional studies. This book drives the discussion further. It stresses the complex forms of agency/advocacy involved in the production and reproduction of regional spaces and space of regionalism as well as the importance of geohistory and context. The book moves beyond the territorial/relational divide that has characterized debates on regions and regional borders since the 1990s. The contributors answer key questions from different conceptual and concrete-contextual angles and to motivate readers to reflect on the perpetual significance of regional concepts and how they are mobilized by various actors to maintain or transform the contested spatialities of societal power relations. This book was based on a special issue of Regional Studies.

Surfing Spaces
Surfing Spaces

Author: Jon Anderson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317534697

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The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water. As this book argues, however, this act of surfing does not exist in isolation. It is defined by the cultures and geographies that synergize with it – by the places, ideas, images, and other representations which at once reflect, create, and commodify this spatial practice. This book innovatively explores the spaces of surf and surf-riding, informed specifically by the perspective of human geography. Based on a range of critical turns within the social sciences, the book explores the locations, relational sensibilities, and transformative nature of surfing spaces, and examines how the spatial practice has been scripted by dominant surfing cultures. The book details how prescriptive (b)orders of access, entitlement, and marginalization have been created, and how, with the advent of new craft, media, and ideals, they are being actively challenged to redefine surfing spaces in the twenty-first century.