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For Space : Doreen Massey.
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ISBN: 9781412903622 Year: 2005 Publisher: London : Sage publications,


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Topophrenia
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ISBN: 0253037689 9780253037695 0253037697 9780253037688 9780253037701 0253037700 9780253037664 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana

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What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one’s location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan’s "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Spaces of geographical thought
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ISBN: 9780761947325 9780761947318 0761947329 0761947310 1446216292 9786610368969 1280368969 1412933927 1446224635 9781412933926 9781446216293 6610368961 9781446224632 9781280368967 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE Publications

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Examining key ideas - like space and place - which inform the geographic imagination, this text discusses the core conceptual vocabulary of human geography.

Les Découvertes XVe-XVIe : une révolution des mentalités
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ISBN: 2862603139 9782862603131 Year: 1990 Volume: 1 (suppl.) Publisher: Paris : Editions Autrement,

Making European space
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ISBN: 0415291925 0415291933 1280075724 1134435797 0203401972 0203410661 9780203401972 020340839X 9780203408391 9786610075720 6610075727 9781134435791 9781134435746 1134435746 9781134435784 1134435789 9781280075728 9780415291927 9780415291934 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Routledge

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Making European Space explores how future visions of Europe's physical space are being decisively shaped by transnational politics and power struggles, which are being played out in new multi-level arenas of governance across the European Union. At stake are big ideas about mobility and friction, about relations between core and peripheral regions, and about the future Europe's cities and countryside. The book builds a critical narrative of the emergence of a new discourse of Europe as 'monotopia', revealing a very real project to shape European space in line with visions of high speed, frictionless mobility, the transgression of borders, and the creation of city networks. The narrative explores in depth how the particular ideas of mobility and space which underpin this discourse are being constructed in policy making, and reflects on the legitimacy of these policy processes. In particular, it shows how spatial ideas are becoming embedded in the everyday practices of the social and political organisation of space, in ways that make a frictionless Europe seem natural, and part of a common European territorial identity.


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Représenter l'espace : l'imaginaire spatial à l'école
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ISBN: 2717816275 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris : Anthropos,

Culture, power, place : explorations in critical anthropology.
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ISBN: 0822319403 0822319349 9780822319405 9780822319344 Year: 2001 Publisher: Durham Duke university press


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Landscapes Beyond Land
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ISBN: 9780857456724 0857456725 9780857456717 0857456717 9781283655651 1283655659 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Oxford

The spatial factor in African history : the relationship of the social, material, and perceptual
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ISBN: 9004139133 9786610859603 1429427051 9047405625 1280859601 1433707578 9781429427050 9781433707575 9789004139138 9781280859601 6610859604 9789047405627 Year: 2005 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The authors of this inter-disciplinary collection examine the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They demonstrate the active quality of space and analyze the ways in which people have contested and shaped space, including responses to crises. In addition, a lengthy essay re-interprets tropical African history, 1800-1930, using spatial theory. Contributors look at how people have constructed mental maps, used discourse to organize territories, and perceived social landscapes. The studies employ a tri-level approach, one that moves from specific places to regions to macro-regional or transnational systems and back again. Authors draw upon written and oral sources to reconstruct the past and employ innovative mapping techniques to illustrate spatial dynamics.


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Re-Investing Authenticity
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ISBN: 9781845411275 1845411277 9781845411282 1845411285 9781845411299 1845411293 9786612656880 1282656880 1845411870 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bristol, UK Blue Ridge Summit, PA

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Re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling that derives from what we do at/in places. This work examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices: from cultural place branding to individual pilgrim performances.

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