Milton Santos

The Nature of Space

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space.

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Produktdetails

• Latin America in Translation
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014409
• ISBN-10: 1478014407
• Artikelnr.: 61113445

Autorenporträt

Milton Santos

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the English-Language Edition: Milton Santos: Rebel of the
Backlands, Insurgent Academic, Prescient Scholar / Susanna Hecht  vii
Introduction  1
Part I. An Ontology of Space: Founding Ideas
1. Techniques, Time, and Geographic Space  13
2. Space: Systems of Objects, Systems of Action  34
3. Geographic Space, a Hybrid  53
Part II. The Production of Content-Forms
4. Space and the Notion of Totality  69
5. From the Diversification of Nature to the Territorial Division of Labor 
81
6. Time (Events) and Space  91
Part III. For a Geography of the Present
7. The Current Technical System  111
8. Unicities: The Production of Planetary Intelligence  124
9. Objects and Actions Today: Norms and Territory  142
10. From the Natural Milieu to the Technical-Scientific-Informational
Milieu  157
11. For a Geography of Networks  177
12. Horizontalities and Verticalities  192
13. Spaces of Rationality  198
Part IV. The Power of Place
14. Place and the Everyday  215
Universal Order, Local Order: Summary and Conclusion  229
Notes  237
References  241
Index  273