Space is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive
examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse
fields as philosophy, physics, architecture, sociology, anthropology,
and geography. The text examines the influence of geometry,
arithmetic, natural philosophy, empiricism, and positivism to the
development of spatial thinking, as well as focusing on the
contributions of phenomenologists, existentialists, psychologists,
Marxists, and post-structuralists to how we occupy, live, structure,
and perform spaces and practices of spacing. The book emphasises the
multiple and partial construction of spaces through the embodied
practices of diverse subjects, highlighting the contributions of
feminists, queer theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and
post-colonial scholars to academic debates. In contrast to
contemporary studies which draw a clear line between scientific and
particularly quantitative approaches to space and spatiality and more
‘lived’ human enactments and performances, this book highlights
the continual influence of different mathematical and philosophical
understandings of space and spatiality on everyday western spatial
imaginations and registers in the twenty-first century. Space is
possibly the key concept underpinning research in geography, as well
as being of central importance to scholars and practitioners working
across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences.
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ISBN
9781000528565
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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