For those NOT in the London area but on the continent: please publicise
this and urge attendance amongst staff & students: all
welcome!
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Invitation to
a special lecture in the lecture series: The Alexander von Humboldt
Lectures in Human Geography, of the University of Nijmegen
Space, Space
and Space
The Thirdspace:
Expanding the Scope of the Geographical
Imagination
Prof. Dr. Edward Soja, Department of Urban Planning,
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Fr. 5 March. 1999
11:00-13:00
Lecture Hall 1.00.04
Thomas van Aquinostraat
1
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Edward Soja will summarize the key arguments he
developed in his book (Thirdspace, 1996, Blackwell, Oxford). For most of
the past century, geographers and others treated space in either of two
ways, as material forms that can be measured and objectively mapped or as
mental images, thoughts about space and its subjective meanings. Prof. Soja
will argue that there is another way of thinking about space and human
geography, one that is more comprehensive and complex, comparable to the
way we think about time and human history. He will trace the development of
this ‘thirdspace’ idea from the early work of Henri Lefebvre and Michel
Foucault to the present day writings of critical cultural scholars such as
bell hooks and Homi Bhabha. In the discussion we will focus on the
practical consequences of this new conceptualisation of space for
geographical research, spatial planning an environmental policy.
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Invitation to
a seminar on:
The New Cosmopolis
Globalization and Postfordist Industrial
Restructuring
Prof. Dr. Edward Soja, Department of Urban Planning,
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Mo. March 8,
1999
11:00-13:00
Lecture Hall 3.00.04
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3
Nijmegen,
Netherlands
Prof. Soja will look at the impact of globalization and
economic restructuring on the reshaping of the modern metropolis over the
past thirty years. Globalization must be seen in at least three streams:
capital, labor, and culture. Along with major changes in the political
economy of cities, these three different forms of globalization have
created new kinds of city-regions that are among the most heterogeneous,
fragmented, and politically complex urban forms ever known. Examples will
be taken primarily from Los Angeles, but some comparisons with Amsterdam
and the Randstad will also be made.
If the time and the wheather allows
it, we will continue our discussion on a walk through ‘downtown’ Nijmegen
during which we can apply Edward Soja’s view on space (see also his special
lecture on Fr. March 5) and his ideas about new urban forms on the
phenomena we can observe in the city of Nijmegen.
organised with the
support of
NICE, the Nijmegen Centre for
Business, Environment and
Government Department of Human Geography
University of Nijmegen
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3
NL-6500 HK Nijmegen
Tel:
+31-(0)24-361 19 25
Fax: +31-(0)24-361 18 41
e-mail:
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www: http://www.kun.nl/socgeo/col.html
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Dr. Huib ERNSTE
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