Spatial questions : cultural topologies and social spatialisations

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Title:

Spatial questions : cultural topologies and social spatialisations

Author:

Shields, Rob, 1961- author.

ISBN:

9781848606647

9781848606654

Personal Author:

Shields, Rob, 1961- author.

Physical Description:

xiv, 197 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Contents:

Overtures -- Spatialisations -- Histories of spaces -- The socialness of space -- Topologies -- Cultural topology -- Glossary of terms.

Abstract:

This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Rob Shields convincingly presents the importance of spatialization and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lies within these theoretical tools. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of time and space, seeking to understand the multiplicity of spatializations and relate them to our everyday life.

Subject Term:

Spatial behavior.

Time -- Sociological aspects.

Space -- Social aspects.

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"Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology" - John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Our understanding of space is crucial to the way in which we understand major social problems and issues and the way we develop and maintain our worldviews.

Building from a history of philosophical and geographical theories of space, Shields presents the importance of spatialisation and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lie within these theoretical tools.

Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of spatiality and temporality to understand the multiplicity of spatialisations and relates them to everyday life.