Dear all,
A shameful plug in part, but also to point out what will be a useful
resource in a few months... Paul Cloke, Mark Goodwin and me are in the final
stages of editing a genuinely first year Human Geography textbook
(Introducing Human Geographies; published by Arnold). It's 34 plus chapters
include a number which will help first year students with questions of space
and spatiality, but most directly relevant is a 4500 word chapter by Susan
Smith called simply 'Society-Space' (in an opening section that runs through
a series of key human geographical concerns by exploring and destabilising
binary terms -- also culture--nature, local--global, structure--agency,
self--other, image--reality). On representation there is that image--reality
chapter by my brother Mike, plus later chapters in a social and cultural
geography section on 'imaginative geographies' (Felix Driver) and
'landscapes' (Catherine Nash) amongst others.
I feel guilty sending this now, but i'm sitting here working on the final
proofs and I'm really excited by the chapters 'our' authors have done for
us, so what the heck. I'd recommend it even if I wasn't an editor, honest!
And it's not like I actually wrote the chapter, so I hope this isn't too
self-promotional... (ed.: stop apologising and just send the message if you
want to)
Phil Crang
At 13:08 27/01/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I had quite a few responses from list members in relation to my request for
>help concerning conceptions of space/represenation - most from people
>asking me to share responses - so here they are. As the following quote
>illustrates, it is amazing that a clear outline, suitable for students, of
>different theories relating to space does not seemingly exist - a nice task
>for someone is to draft such an introductory piece (and I do mean
>introductory!):
>
> 'One thing that did strike me when I first got in contact with geographers,
> was when I asked someone, "Well, what exactly ARE the theories of space
> that undergraduates (and post graduates) are taught?" Partly I suspect
> that it wasnt an easy question to answer briefly, but partly I wonder
> whether student geographers are meant to ABSORB (say Cartesian or
> post-structuralist) them by osmosis somehow(!!??)'
>
>Hope they are of use,
>thanks to those who sent material,
>
>Rob
>
>-------------
>E-mail responses:
>
>what about robert david sack's books - including one that was published
> recetnly and was revieed in i thnk the last but one issue of progress in
> human geography.
>
>Rob, didnt Sack do a book on space a few years ago and James Blaut
> had an article in Prof Geog about 15 years ago!
>
>Couclelis H. Location, place, region, and space. In: Geography's
> inner worlds (Abler R. et al., eds). New Brunswick (N.J.):
> Rutgers University Press, 1992, 215-233.
> Couclelis H., Gale N. Space and spaces. - "Geografiska Annaler",
> 1986, 68B, N 1.
> Dictionary of Human Geography. 3d edition Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994
> Entrikin J.N. Place, region, and modernity. In: The power of place.
> Boston, 1989.
> Fell J.P. Heidegger and Sartre. An esasay of being and place. New
> York, 1979.
> Hakli J. Territoriality and the rise of modern state. - "Fennia",
> 1994, v. 152, N 1, 1-82.
> îÅidegger M. Being and Time. London: Basil Blackwell, 1983, 589p.
> Pickles J. Phenomenology, science, and geography. Cambridge:
> Cambridge University Press, 1985.
> Relph E. Geographical expereriences and being-in-the-world: The
> phenomenological origins of geography. In: Dwelling, place &
> environment (Seamon D., Mugerauer R., eds). Dordrecht - Boston:
> M. Nijhof, 1985, 15-31.
> Sack R. Conceptions of space in social thought. London: Macmillan,
> 1980.
>
>Stuart Hall's introductory essay (The work of representation) in the
> OU book edited by him called "Representation" (Sage, 1997) is
> wonderfully clear and well-written.
>
>I've found some of Andy Merrifield's work useful on these questions.
> Try
>
> Merrifield, A (1993) 'Place and Space -
> A Lefebvrian Reconciliation',in TIBG, 18:4 p516-531
>
> Merrifield, A (1995) 'Lefebvre, Anti-Logos and Neitzsche - An
> Alternative Reading of The Production of Space', in Antipode, 27:3
> p294-303
>
> These are most focussed on Lefebvre than the others that you
> mentioned.
>
> There is always dear old David Gregory's tub thumper Geographical
> Imaginations (esp chapter 6, in particular 368-395) as a good intro,
> and I've been told that Stephen Hawkings Brief History of Time also
> deals with these questions clearly, (but I'm only repeating what I've
> been told!).
>
> On representation:
>
> Cosgrove, D (1985) The evolution of perspective,
> in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, v1 p45-62,
>
> and an odd little book
>
> Crosby, A W. (1997) The Measure of
> Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600, Cambridge
> University Press, Cambridge. (esp ch 5,7,9)
>
> It may not be exactly what you're looking for either, but I found
> Stuart Hall's piece 'What is this 'black' in black popular culture'
> (available in The Stuart HAll Reader, ed. Morley & Chen, Routledge,
> 1996) to be one of the most thought provoking articles I've ever read
> on the politics of representation.
>
>Alternative perspectives on urban inequality
> Geoforum 15 (1) 75-82 David Smith
>
> Looks at same problem using three different spatial theories
>
>maybe some of these references may suit your purposes:
>
> 1. English overview articles:
>
> CURRY, M. (1996): On Space and Spatial Practice in Contemporary Geography.
> In: Earle, C., Mathews, K., Kenzer, M.S. (Hrsg): Concepts in Human
> Geography. Lanham, Maryland: 3-32.
>
> SIMONSEN, K. (1996): What kind of space in what kind of social theory?. In:
> Progress in Human Geography, 20 (4): 494-512.
>
>
> 2.a) In case you read german:
>
> KLÜTER, Hans (1986): Raum als Element sozialer Kommunikation. In: Giessener
> Geographische Schriften, 60.
> {Comment: He treats as a coding concept within social systems, it is the
> only work so far (worldwide?) that used Luhmanns theory of autopoietic
> systems for a notion fo space, or a equivalent respectively.}
>
> REICHERT, Dagmar (Hrsg.) (1996): Räumliches Denken. Verlag der Fachvereine,
> Zuerich.
> {Collection of understandings of space within many scientific disciplines}
>
> WERLEN, Benno (1995): Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen.
> Band 1, Zur Ontologie von Gesellschaft und Raum. Stuttgart.
> {Probably best critical reconstruction of concepts of space within
> philosophy from Aristotle to Einstein; by far the most profound text on
> space I know so far at all; section on space is roughly one third of the
> book. Maybe Benno has something in english as well:
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> 2.b) If you can wait, or if you would be happy with manuscripts:
>
> WEICHHART, Peter (1999): Die Räume zwischen den Welten und die Welt der
> Räume. Zur Konzeption eines Schlüsselbegriffs der Geographie. In:
> MEUSBURGER, Peter et.a.. (Hrsg.): Subjektzentrierte Handlungstheorie
> [working title?]. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart. [will be published probably
> summer/fall 99]
> ZIERHOFER, Wolfgang (1999): Die fatale Verwechslung.
> Zum Selbstverständnis der Geographie. In: MEUSBURGER, Peter et.a.. (Hrsg.):
> Subjektzentrierte Handlungstheorie [working title?]. Franz Steiner,
> Stuttgart. [will be published probably summer/fall 99]
> {These two texts are a result of an ongoing discussion between the authors
> about the concept of space in geography; both argue in slightly different
> ways to regard space as a scheme to order facts of different kind, but
> unlike Kant not as an apriori scheme}
>
>>From James Blaut
>Me, "Space and Process," PG 13,4(1961):1-7
>Me again, "Object and Relationship," PG 14,6(1962):1-7.
>
>"Space and Process" is reprinted in W.K.Davies, ed., *The Conceptual
>Revolutionm in Geography*. London: [publisher?] 1972.
>
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>Dr Rob Kitchin,
>Department of Geography,
>National University of Ireland,
>Maynooth,
>County Kildare,
>Ireland.
>
>Tel: +353 1 708 3372
>Fax: +353 1 708 3573
>Alt. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.may.ie/staff/rkitchin/
>
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