The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines

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The spatial turn has been deeply influential across the humanities and social sciences for several decades. Yet despite this long term influence most volumes focus mainly on geography and tend to take a Eurocentric approach to the topic. The Question of Space takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding how the spatial turn has affected other disciplines. By connecting developments across radically different fields the volume bridges the very borders that separate the academic space. From new geographies through performance, the internet, politics and the arts, the distinctive chapters undertake conversations that often surprisingly converge in approach, questions and insights Together the chapters transcend longstanding disciplinary boundaries to build a constructive dialogue around the question of space. The Question of Space Contents Acknowledgements Prelude: Playing with Space 1 Space, Living, Atmospheres, Affectivities 2 ‘Knowing One’s Place’: Mapping Landscapes in and as Performance in Contemporary South Africa 3 Vocalic Space: Socio-Materiality and Sonic Spatiality 4 bell hooks’s Affective Politics of Space and Belonging 5 As Tenses Implode: Encountering Post-Traumatic Urbanism in Ghassan Kanafani’s ʿĀʾid ila Hayfā 6 ‘Place’ in an Inverted World? A Japanese Theory of Place 7 The Invisible Lines of Territory: An Investigation into the Make-Up of Territory 8 Two Internet Cartographies: Google Maps and the Unmappable Darknet 9 Space Is No One Thing: Luring Thought through Film and Philosophy 10 Mayday – A Letter from the Earth Postlude: And… And… And… Index Notes on Contributors