Space: Place

Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human Geography's Binaries

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 81-96

  Agnew, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446216293.n5     Document Type: Chapter

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2. Press Understands place as the result of a web of spatial-temporal connections in which political agency is embedded. Offers empirical case studies of Italian unification and recent politics to argue for the superiority of this perspective over others that treat Italy as a single, homogeneous space or a set of fixed regions with long-standing cultural traits that determine political outcomes.
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5. An accessible paper showing how the ideas of the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre can be used to reconcile between 'the way in which experience is lived and acted out in place' and 'the political and economic practices that are operative over broader spatial scales' (p. 517). Attempting to abandon the neo-Kantian nomothetic-idiographic opposition around which most discussion of space and place has tended to revolve, Merrifield argues for a 'dialectical' perspective on relations between what the two terms signify. In this view, space and place are 'two facets of a dialectical process just as the wave and particle aspect of matter is assumed in particle physics' (p. 527). In other words, space and place are two 'moments' in a common process with space equivalent to the 'whole' and place to the 'parts'.
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7. A sophisticated theory of how space and place are related from a broadly humanist perspective, emphasizing the roles of human awareness and moral concern as well as more conventional social and environmental dimensions of experience. Places are both what tie together movements through space and dense nodes of relations between people and with nature. As geographical agents, people make places but not entirely as they please.
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9. An interesting and accessible argument for why space and place are inherently related to one another through the 'tension' implicit in their dominant meanings. If space is the outcome of 'top-down' processes, place is the result of 'bottom-up' ones. After claiming that space and place are the most basic of geographic concepts, Taylor argues for absolutely the reverse of Hardt and Negri's (2000) claim that progressive politics requires abandoning place-based organization for the nebulous spaces of globalized networks. To Taylor, space is not only more 'abstract' than place it is also necessarily imposed rather than experiential and popular in origin. Thus, through understanding 'space-place tensions' a progressive politics can provide both a perspective on state- and economic-based forces manipulating space and a place-based response to these depredations. From this point of view, a space-based politics is necessarily authoritarian.
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