Spatial Turn - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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.

List of contents

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)

About the author

Barney Warf is Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography, particularly economic and political issues.
Santa Arias is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. She specializes in the literatures of colonial Latin America and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and culture.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Barney (Florida State University Warf, Barney (Florida State University) Arias Warf
• Assisted by: Santa Arias (Editor), Arias Santa (Editor), Barney Warf (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415762212
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76221-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Travel > Travel guides > World, Arctic, Antarctic; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Religion: general, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Human Geography