Main description:
This essential guide to social theory and space is written by one of the leading writers in the field. Nigel Thrift explores the interconnections among people, places and things and demonstrates why they must be examined in relation to each other rather than in isolation - as is too often the case.
Spatial Formations presents a formidable analysis of how space is socially constructed, unmade and reconstructed. Thrift provides the reader with a direct understanding of how social theory can be used to make sense of spatial forms and practices, and how spatial relations are made durable over space and time. These themes are developed through case studies, ranging from medieval time consciousness to the modern usage of machines, and from the Second World War to the contemporary world of international finance.
Table of contents:
`Strange Country'
Meaning, Use and Style in Non-Representational Theories
EARLIER...
On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time
Flies and Germs
A Geography of Knowledge
Little Games and Big Stories
Accounting for the Practices of Political Personality in the 1945 General Election
LATER...
/f003Vivos Voco
Ringing the Changes in the Historical Geography of Time Consciousness
A Phantom State? International Money, Electronic Networks and Global Cities
Inhuman Geographies
Landscapes of Speed, Light and Power
This essential guide to social theory and space is written by one of the leading writers in the field. Nigel Thrift explores the interconnections among people, places and things and demonstrates why they must be examined in relation to each other rather than in isolation - as is too often the case.
Spatial Formations presents a formidable analysis of how space is socially constructed, unmade and reconstructed. Thrift provides the reader with a direct understanding of how social theory can be used to make sense of spatial forms and practices, and how spatial relations are made durable over space and time. These themes are developed through case studies, ranging from medieval time consciousness to the modern usage of machines, and from the Second World War to the contemporary world of international finance.
Table of contents:
`Strange Country'
Meaning, Use and Style in Non-Representational Theories
EARLIER...
On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time
Flies and Germs
A Geography of Knowledge
Little Games and Big Stories
Accounting for the Practices of Political Personality in the 1945 General Election
LATER...
/f003Vivos Voco
Ringing the Changes in the Historical Geography of Time Consciousness
A Phantom State? International Money, Electronic Networks and Global Cities
Inhuman Geographies
Landscapes of Speed, Light and Power