Space and Place - Geography

Chapter 23: Space and Place John Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles). in J. Agnew and D. Livingstone (eds.) Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage, 2011 (forthcoming). The question of Space and Place in geographical knowledge is ultimately not just about whether the question of where matters in the way that when does in explaining how and even why something happens. It is also about how it matters. Given that both Space and Place are about the where of things and their relative invocation has usually signaled different understandings of what where means, it is best to examine them together rather than separately. That is the purpose of this chapter. Contrary perhaps to first appearance, Space and Place are fairly complex words. The Oxford English Dictionary gives over about two pages to Space and around three and a half pages to Place . Space is regarded largely as a dimension within which matter is located or a grid within which substantive items are contained.

location/space representing the global (and the modern) (Jessop et al. 2008). This ... some of the unease with revival of a stronger sense of place than mere location to the fact that the philosopher Martin Heidegger was a major apologist for an ontologically strong

Loading..

Tags:

  Global, Place, Senses, Space, Sense of place

Information

Related search queries