The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'
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"Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology" - John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University 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
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Cet article considère la réception très limitée d' Espaces et sociétés , ainsi que d'autres revues d'études urbaines dans la littérature sociologique et urbaine anglophone. Nous manquons de données sur l'impact des citations des revues françaises dans les publications anglophones et dans les débats internationaux, d'ailleurs souvent menés en anglais. Les articles français circulent peu dans les revues internationales malgré les efforts de traduction des résumés, ainsi que l'accessibilité des systèmes de traduction gratuits (par exemple, Google Translate). Un grand nombre des contributeurs français publient dans des revues anglophones mais ils ne communiquent pas sur les revues françaises. Un petit nombre des théoriciens français du xx e siècle sont parmi les auteurs les plus cités, mais ils le sont dans des traductions anglaises. Des stratégies collectives, telles que l'indexation des revues francophones dans des bases de données internationales, constitueraient une politique plus efficace.
This article considers the ethical implications of a stance toward or relation with the natural environment that could be characterized as dominant across many sectors of not only the economy but consumption patterns generally. Despite popular perception or denial of climate change over the past decades, this is an implicit relation toward the collateral risks and damages to ecosystems by human activity. Not only are livelihoods sustained on the basis of natural resources but the direct costs of hydrocarbon development are borne locally in the environment. For some, this is understood to be without a personal cost despite the fears expressed. The article quotes from interviews with residents. It stages a broader, continuing conversation about the ambivalence of being dependent on hydrocarbons. This article explores the difficulty of developing an ethical engagement with the nonhuman and natural ecosystems when they are relegated to the status of what will be referred to as "bare nature." Rather than state of exception or standing reserve, nonhuman nature is only present as a form of absence and as nonentities and does not present an ethical challenge or claim.