Spatial questions: Cultural topologies and social spatialisations

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London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2013 — 216 p. — ISBN-10: 1848606656; ISBN-13: 978-1848606654.Our understanding of space is crucial to the way in which we understand major social problems and issues and the way we develop and maintain our worldviews. Building from a history of philosophical and geographical theories of space, Shields presents the importance of spatialisation and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lie within these theoretical tools. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of spatiality and temporality to understand the multiplicity of spatialisations and relates them to everyday life.OverturesFrom the Shan Hai Jing to Herodotus' Historiae and to Idrisi's Kitab NuzhatMediterranean GeographiesSpatialisation and Space-TimeThe Argument of this BookSpatialisationsSpace as Problem: Etymology. Translation'L'Espace Lefebvre'Respecting Lefebvre: Critical TensionsThe Spatialisation of Places and RegionsMemorial and Anticipatory Spatialisation: Time-SpacesVieux Quebec: The Example of Tourist PracticesHistories of SpacesMediterranean Geometric SpaceNorthern Europe: Mathematical SpaceDimensionality: Three, Four or More?FlatnessRelativistic SpaceThe Socialness of SpaceRecognising SpatialisationMarx: The Economics of LandEngels: Inequality and the Built EnvironmentSimmel: Spatial Projections of Social FormsCultural Understandings of Space: Emile DurkheimPhysical Planning, Land Use Planning. Spatialisation and Spatial SemanticsSpatial StrugglesDiscourses on SpaceTopologies'Another Kind of Analysis' - Beyond GeometryConnectivity and SchematicsGeometry and TopologyThe Seven Bridges of KonigsburgNon-Euclidean SpaceThe Topological Sensorium"Dimensionality" and OrientabilityTopological Archetypes: Folds, Bridges, LabyrinthsThe 'Plushness' of the RealCultural TopologyDiagramsDeleuze Folding FoucaultHeterotopias of ScaleScale and TopologyTopology and the Social - Networks, Surfaces and MilieuxRelations and Boundary ObjectsCultural TopologyA Topology of ExperienceThe Cusp