Title & Author:

Thinking space / edited by Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

xiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Critical geographies ; 9

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Ur-texts and starting points. 1. Walter Benjamin's urban thought: a critical analysis / Mike Savage. 2. On Georg Simmel: proximity, distance and movement / John Allen. 3. Mikhail Bakhtin: dialogics of space / Julian Holloway and James Kneale. 4. Wittgenstein and the fabric of everyday life / Michael R. Curry -- pt. 2. Reformulated spaces: decolonisation, the wake of '68. 5. Un-glunking geography: spatial science after Dr. Seuss and Gilles Deleuze / Marcus A. Doel. 6. Relics, places and unwritten geographies in the work of Michael de Certeau (1925-86) / Mike Crang. 7. Helene Cixous / Pam Shurmer-Smith. 8. Henri Lefebvre: a socialist in space / Andy Merrifield.

Summary:

Thinking Space is ideal reading for those looking to learn about the 'spatial turn' in social and cultural theory. Theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world.

Resources:
2000.
Publisher description

ISBN:

(hardback ; alk. paper)
0415164154
0415160162 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415160162 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415160154
9780415160155
0203411145
9780203411148

Subject:

Raum
Social sciences Philosophy.
Scaling (Social sciences)
Space in economics.
Geography.
Sciences sociales Philosophie.
Construction d'une échelle (Sciences sociales)
Espace (Économie politique)
Géographie.
geography.
Sozialwissenschaften
Geografischer Raum
Soziologie
Geografie
Ruimte (algemeen)
Sociale wetenschappen.
Theorieën.
Sociology Philosophy.
Geophysics.

Added entries:

Crang, Mike.
Thrift, N. J.
Critical geographies ; 9.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211982
Call No.: H61 .T4 2000
Status: Available