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For space / Doreen Massey

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SAGE, [2005]Description: viii, 222 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781412903615 (cased)
  • 9781412903615 (cased)
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Opening propositions -- Space/representation -- The prison-house of synchrony -- The horizontalities of deconstruction -- The life in space -- Spatialising the history of modernity -- Instantaneity/depthlesness -- Aspatial globalisation -- (Contrary to popular opinion) Space cannot be annihilated by time -- Slices through space -- The elusiveness of place -- Throwntogetherness: the politics of the event of place -- There are no rules of space and place -- Making and contesting time-spaces
Summary: Questioning the implicit assumptions that we make about space, this text considers conventional notions of social science, as well as demonstrating how a vigorous understanding of space can impact on political consequences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Opening propositions -- Space/representation -- The prison-house of synchrony -- The horizontalities of deconstruction -- The life in space -- Spatialising the history of modernity -- Instantaneity/depthlesness -- Aspatial globalisation -- (Contrary to popular opinion) Space cannot be annihilated by time -- Slices through space -- The elusiveness of place -- Throwntogetherness: the politics of the event of place -- There are no rules of space and place -- Making and contesting time-spaces

Questioning the implicit assumptions that we make about space, this text considers conventional notions of social science, as well as demonstrating how a vigorous understanding of space can impact on political consequences.

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