Spatial questions : cultural topologies and social spatialisations /
Cultural topologies and social spatialisations
Rob Shields.
- Los Angeles: SAGE, 2013.
- xiv, 197 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.
Overtures -- Spatialisations -- Histories of spaces -- The socialness of space -- Topologies -- Cultural topology -- Glossary of terms.
This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Rob Shields convincingly presents the importance of spatialization and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lies within these theoretical tools. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of time and space, seeking to understand the multiplicity of spatializations and relate them to our everyday life.