The Spatial Turn

Author : Barney Warf,Santa Arias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135972660

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The Spatial Turn by Barney Warf,Santa Arias Pdf

Across the disciplines, the study of space has undergone a profound and sustained transformation. Space, place, mapping, and geographical imaginations have become commonplace topics in a variety of analytical fields in part because globalization has accentuated the significance of location. While this transformation has led to a renaissance in human geography, it also has manifested itself in the humanities and other social sciences. The purpose of this book is not to announce that space is significant, which by now is well known, but to explore how space is analyzed by a variety of disciplines, to compare and contrast these approaches, identify commonalities, and explore how and why differences appear. The volume includes works by 13 scholars from a variety of geographical regions and disciplines. The chapters combine up-to-date literature reviews concerning the role of space in each discipline and several offer original empirical analyses. Some chapters are concerned with Geography while others explore the role of space in contemporary Anthropology, Sociology, Religion, Political Science, Film, and Cultural Studies. The introduction surveys the development of the spatial turn across the fields under consideration. Despite frequent reference to the spatial turn, this is the first volume to explicitly address how theory and practice concerning space, is used in a variety of fields from diverse conceptual perspectives. This book will appeal to everyone conducting conceptual and theoretical research on space, not simply in Geography, but in related fields as well.

Author : Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110402988

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Cultural Turns by Doris Bachmann-Medick Pdf

The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns, it discusses emerging directions of research. Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and beyond – e.g., in the fields of sociology, economics and the study of religion. This work is the English translation by Adam Blauhut of an influential German book that has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world.

Author : Jaimey Fisher,Barbara Caroline Mennel
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042030015

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Spatial Turns by Jaimey Fisher,Barbara Caroline Mennel Pdf

The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies.

Author : Robert T. Tally
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415664394

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Spatiality by Robert T. Tally Pdf

Divided into six chapters, each dealing with different aspects of the spatial in literary studies, the book provides: An overview of the spatial turn in literary theory - from modern philosophy and historicism to cartography and literary theory Introductions to the major theorists such as Michel Foucault, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukács, and Mikhail Bakhtin An analysis of spatiality from a variety of perspectives - the writer as map-maker, different literary and critical 'spaces', the concept of literary geography, cartographics and geocriticism. As the first guide to the literature and criticism of 'space', this clear and engaging book is essential reading.

Author : Adam Barrows
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137569011

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Time, Literature, and Cartography After the Spatial Turn by Adam Barrows Pdf

Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature. Drawing on new readings of time in a range of literary narratives, including Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Adam Barrows explores literature’s ability to cartographically represent the dense and tangled rhythmic processes that constitute lived spaces. Applying the insights of ecological resilience studies, as well as Henri Lefebvre’s late work on rhythm to literary representations of time, this book offers a sustained examination of literature’s “chronometric imaginary”: its capacity to map the temporal relationships between the human and the non-human, the local and the global.

Author : Dunia Filippi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351115407

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Rethinking the Roman City by Dunia Filippi Pdf

The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume explores this in relation to approaches and methodologies in the study of urban space in Roman Italy. As a consequence of these new imperatives, sociological studies on ancient Roman cities are flourishing, demonstrating a new set of approaches that have developed separately from "traditional" historical and topographical analyses. Rethinking the Roman City represents a convergence of these different approaches to propose a new interpretive model, looking at the Roman city and one of its key elements: the forum. After an introductory discussion of methodological issues, internationally-know specialists consider three key sites of the Roman world – Rome, Ostia and Pompeii. Chapters focus on physical space and/or the use of those spaces to inter-relate these different approaches. The focus then moves to the Forum Romanum, considering the possible analytical trajectories available (historical, topographical, literary, comparative and sociological), and the diversity of possible perspectives within each of these, moving towards an innovative understanding of the role of the forum within the Roman city. This volume will be of great value to scholars of ancient cities across the Roman world, well as historians of urban society and development throughout the ancient world.

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000208047

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Spatial Literary Studies by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible.

Author : David J. Bodenhamer,John Corrigan,Trevor M. Harris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253355058

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The Spatial Humanities by David J. Bodenhamer,John Corrigan,Trevor M. Harris Pdf

Applying the analytical tools of GIS to new fields of research

Author : Kathryne Beebe,Angela Davis,Kathryn Gleadle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317569565

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Space, Place and Gendered Identities by Kathryne Beebe,Angela Davis,Kathryn Gleadle Pdf

In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, ‘built’ and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich field of inquiry by combining an analytical approach sensitive to questions of gender with an exploration of ideas of political space. The volume demonstrates how the gendered and political meanings of space—be that space domestic or public, rural or urban, real or imagined, or a combination of all these and more—are fashioned through the movement of historical actors through space and time. Whether in delineating the gendered and politicized space of the pulpit; the sickroom; the Irish farmyard; the London suffrage atelier; the domestic space created by the wireless; the lesbian ‘scene’ of rural Canada; the eighteenth-century ladies' ‘closet’; or the public space within the ‘public history’ of historic houses, the volume demonstrates how the meanings of these spaces are not fixed, but are challenged and reformulated. This book was originally published as a special issue of women’s History Review.

Author : Jesper Falkheimer,André Jansson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9189471369

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Geographies of Communication by Jesper Falkheimer,André Jansson Pdf

Author : Marijn Nieuwenhuis,David Crouch, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Derby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786601964

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The Question of Space by Marijn Nieuwenhuis,David Crouch, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Derby Pdf

This edited collection offers a much-needed interdisciplinary exploration of the longevity and impact of the spatial turn across disciplines. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in space and place in the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Jutta Vinzent
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110592733

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From Space in Modern Art to a Spatial Art History by Jutta Vinzent Pdf

This book traces artists' theories of constructive space in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on these concepts and recent theories on space, it develops a methodology termed 'Spatial Art History' that conceives of artworks as physical spatio-temporal things, which produce the social, to overcome the reductive understanding of art as a mere mirror or facilitator of society.

Author : Barney Warf,Santa Arias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135972677

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The Spatial Turn by Barney Warf,Santa Arias Pdf

This book analyses approaches to space, identifying commonalities, and explores how and why differences appear. It includes thirteen essays by authors from America, Canada, Europe and Latin America and will appeal to everyone conducting conceptual and theoretical research on space in geography and other related fields.

Author : Carola Daffner,Beth A. Muellner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110378283

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German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives by Carola Daffner,Beth A. Muellner Pdf

In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography.The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women’s writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.

Author : Kim Solga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350006089

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Theory for Theatre Studies: Space by Kim Solga Pdf

Space: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance? What tools do they use to theorize the political work space does on – and beyond – the stage? How can students use these tools to unpack the workings of space and place in the performances they see, the plays they study, and the experiences they have outside their classrooms? Theory for Theatre Studies: Space provides a comprehensive introduction to the 'spatial turn' in modern theatre and performance theory, exploring topics as diverse as embodied space, environmental performance politics and urban performance studies. The book is written in accessible prose and features in-depth case studies of Platform's audio walk And While London Burns, Katie Mitchell's Fraülein Julie, Young Jean Lee's The Shipment, and Evalyn Parry and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory's Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools. TfTS: Space begins with fresh readings of historical dramatic theory, discusses twentieth-century theoretical trends at length, and ends by asking what it will take (and what work is already underway) to decolonize the Western, settler-colonial stage. Online resources to accompany this book are available at: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theory-for-theatre-studies-space-9781350006072/