Thank you for all the responses for my request for information about the
spatial turn. I think a number of the references have reminded us of how
geographer’s work has been used by those outside of geography. I was
particularly interested in how non-geographers have directly addressed the
matter of space. The references to work in education sent by Jane McGregor
look especially interesting.
As well as references to our long established friends Lefrebvre, Foucault
etc. Michael Fisher reminded us that the likes of Adam Smith and Max Weber
were not a spatially naïve as we can often suggest.
In case, it is interesting (trying to find a neutral word) to discuss the
use of geographer’s outside of the discipline at a time when universities
seem to increasingly feel that they have no need of their geography
departments.
Thank you again for your help. I have enclosed a brief list of references
beneath.
John
John Canning
University of Bristol
FYI a reference list
Work by geographers used by non-geographers.
E. Soja 'Postmodern geography' (1989)
Thinking Space (2000) edited by Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift.
"Rethinking Architecture". Mastering Space (1995) by John Agnew and Stuart
Corbridge
Empire (2001) by Michael Hardt and Anonio Negri
Sociology
Tom Osbourne (or Osborne) was doing some work on spatiality in sociology. I
don't know if he's published anything on it, but it might be worth chasing
up.
The Follies of Globalisation Theory by Justin Rosenberg contains some
critical reflections of the efforts of a few non-geographers to get to grips
with globalisation.
History
Simon Gunn and Robert J. Morris (2001, eds.) Identities in Space: Contested
Terrains in the Western City since 1850 (Ashgate: Aldershot).
Education (these were the kind of references I most hoping to get.)
Edwards, R. & Usher, R. (2000) Globalisation and Pedagogy. Space,place and
identity (London, Routledge). Gordon, T. & Lahelma, E. (1996) 'School is
like an Ant's Nest':Spatiality and Embodiement in Schools, Gender and
Education, 8(3), pp. 301-310.
McGregor, J. (2002) Spatiality and Teacher Workplace Cultures : The
Department as Nexus International Congress for School Effectiveness and
Improvement (Danish University of Education, Copenhagen,January 3rd-6th)
Nespor, J. (1997) Tangled Up in School:Politics, Space,Bodies, and Signs in
the Educational Process (New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum).
Paulston, R. (2000) A Spatial turn in Comparitive Education? Constructing a
Social cartography of difference, in: J. Schriewer (Ed) Discourse formation
in Comparitive Education (Germany, Peter Lang).
Economics
‘The Trouble with Geography’ The Economist 13th March 1999
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