Product Description

Timespace argues that the old dimensions of time and space do not exist singly, but only as a hybrid process term. the contributors introduce the concepts of time and space together, across a range of disciplines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #451508 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-08
• Released on: 2001-08-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
..."the emphasis on social practice through the volume is consistent...the contribution by Wolch and DeVerteuil adds considerable strength to the volume. the conceptual dynamism that energizes the entire volume is potent and original, and TimeSpace thereby makes an important and timely contribution to human geography- Matthew Kurtz, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY."

From the Back Cover
The social sciences and humanities have recently taken a 'spatial turn', with workers drawing upon a range of geographical concepts and metaphors to explore an increasingly complex and differentiated social world. Elsewhere, interest has grown in the role that differing conceptualisations of time play in shaping our understandings of the world. TimeSpace is the first book to bring these interests together. Rather than thinking in terms of either time or space ir argues that our accounts of the social world must draw instead upon the more complex notion of TimeSpace.
With contributors drawn from a range of disciplines, including Geography, Sociology, Gender Studies, International Studies and English Literature, TimeSpace is wide-ranging in both substantive and theoretical scope. In the first part of the volume contributors explore the 'Making' and 'Living' of TimeSpace. Chapters examine past and present changes in time and time consciousness and the meaning of such changes for the people living through them; changing understandings of Modernisation and Progress and the geographies that underpin them; and the role that understandings of TimeSpace play in projects of national and racial identity and the politics of Belonging. In the second part of the volume, 'Living-Thinking TimeSpace', attention is turned to the ways in which we might most usefully conceptualise TimeSpace itself - whether drawing on the perspectives of a rejuvenated time-geography, some variation of Lefebvre's rhythm analysis, phenomenology or Buddhism.
At the heart of the volume lies a challenge to all those who have uncritically embraced the recent 'spatial turn' and to those working in the field of time studies to think in terms of neither only space or time but a multi-dimensional, partial and uneven TimeSpace.