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17 maj 2016 · Human geography took a postmodern turn in the 1990s, producing a form of inquiry that tied the study of geography with social justice and focused on pluralities, binaries, positionalities and deconstruction. Space, in the 1990s, appeared as a social construct in constant transformation.
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The question of space and place in geographical knowledge is ultimately not just about whether the question of “where” matters in the way that “when” does in explaining “how” and even “why” something happens.
After a brief historiographical presentation of human geography, space, and place, this essay outlines ten Past & Present articles that, in some way, approach space, place, and scale in their study.
pts; when they merge, spatial history (and historical geography) follows. Important within spatial history are the concepts of ‘place’ (that is, physical spaces that people naturalize through patterns, behaviour and communications) and ‘scale’ (the representation of any area, as produced and defined by social process, from the smallest unit, the...
Place as a locational concept refers to a straightforward point or position in space, but it is also at once a social concept, drawing attention to the cultural positioning and social relations of the people, processes, and practices involved in co-producing that location.
17 maj 2016 · Most authors agree that spatial history is at the intersection of history and geography, and that it highlights the role of geographic (recently, computerbased) information...
In the first chapter, Digan gives a short introduction to concepts of space and place and discusses how they have been used in historiography. Identifying a lack of conceptual clarity and an absence of ‘space’ and ‘place’ in historiography, she seeks to find a working definition of the concepts.
