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ARCHITECTURE AND "THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT" ARE NOW INFUSED BY A SHOPPING-MALL CULTURE THAT DEPRIVES LIVED SPACES OF BOTH COHERENCE AND COMPLEXITY. IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THIS CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SPACE IS NOW WIDELY SHARED AND LIES BEHIND THE APPROACH OF ERNESTO LACLAU'S "NEW REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION OF OUR TIME." SHE IS CONCERNED THAT SUCH SCHOLARS VIEW GEOGRAPHIC SPACE AS A PASSIVE AND DEPOLITICIZED ARENA, SEEING ONLY TIME AS THE DOMAIN OF CONTRADICTION AND DYNAMISM. SHE POINTS OUT THAT RADICAL AND FEMINIST GEOGRAPHERS HAVE UNDERMINED ANY SUCH DICHOTOMY OF SPACE AND TIME. THEY HAVE SHOWN NOT ONLY THAT SPACE IS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED BUT THAT SOCIETY IS SPATIALLY CONSTRUCTED; THEREFORE, CHAOS, CONTRADICTION, AND CHANGE ARE INTEGRAL TO THE SPATIAL.

In new regional history, national states are not seen to play a special role. Regions are understood as evolutionary processes in which time and space-history and geography-are connected in research questions. To illustrate the entanglement of time and space in various forms and ages, this volume explores regional history from around the globe. The editor's review of the various works written under the heading of regional history serves as an introduction to this theme.This volume shows how historical events and changes have influenced the reproduction of regions in Czechia; it will also highlight how regional identities were manifested in a cultural form in romantic operas of post-Napoleonic Europe. The historically rich West Wits Line gold-mining region in the West Rand of South Africa is also examined within a regional-history framework with the broad theme of ecohealth and well-being. Through case studies, the volume also explores the history of governance and planning in New Zealand's largest city-region, Auckland, as well as the recent economic history of the State of Mato Grosso in Brazil. Finally, it also brings the idea of regional history to the most personal level of historical consciousness, by examining the experiential shaping of home in the broader meaning of Heimat, as a question of belonging somewhere - both in time and in space

In August 2005, a small but important conference took place at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. The Chuo Meeting on Economics of Time and Space 2005 (Chuo METS 05) aimed to enrich the respective disciplines of the economics of time (dynamic economics) and the economics of space (spatial economics) and to expand their applicability in the real world. The chapters contained herein are based on the papers presented at that conference.

This thesis examines the space and time of imagined sound in Australian post-World War Two literature and music. Using what I term a critical close listening methodology, I will discuss a range of novels, poems, songs, song suites, film clips and art music compositions that, through a return to various times in the past, offer a remapping of Australian space. Literary and musical representations of the post-European settlement era – narratives as diverse as the desert explorer imagined by both Francis Webb in his poetic sequence 'Eyre All Alone' (1961) and David Lumsdaine in his electro-acoustic composition Aria for Edward John Eyre (1972), the convict and outsiders songs of The Drones and Gareth Liddiard (2006 and 2010), the soundings of mythic island foundations in Baecastuff's Mutiny Music (2006 - present) and the destruction and rebirth of the continental top-end in Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria (2006) – resonate within key moments of the post-war era, such as the search for the centre, the shift towards recognition of Indigenous custodianship in the post-Mabo period, and the move beyond the boundaries of the nation. Drawing together literary and musical works in seven chapters, I consider representations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous experiences of a range of Australian geoimaginaries – the continent, the archipelago, and the island. I argue that the close listening method, with its focus on sound, generates a unique cartography of the artistic, historical, and political harmonics of the works assembled, while also creating a productive dialogue between the distinct mediums of the works. These statements of postcolonial spatiotemporal difference deepen our understanding of the complexity of fundamental national spaces and times, mapping the development of pivotal geoimaginaries that accompanied the historical terrain of the post-war period.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- The Surprising True Story of Patrick S. "The First", Rupert R., Sly S. and Gus G., Protocells in Their Very Early Years -- This Is the Story -- Rupert's Story: (How Patrick, Now That He Exists, Provides an Opportunity for Rupert to Emerge and Exist) -- The Amazing Story of Sly Protocell -- The Story of Gus -- Preface -- A Manifesto in Defence of Biological Diversity -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Biodiversity, between Speciation and Extinction -- 1.1. Biodiversity: The Last Ecological Science -- 1.2. Speciation and Extinction: The Two Driving Forces of Biodiversity -- 1.2.1. Speciation: The Source of Biodiversity -- 1.2.2. Extinction: The Reducer of Biodiversity -- Part II: Biodiversity from Cells to Gaia -- Chapter 2 -- Biodiversity in Time -- 2.1. Competition and the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.1.1. Intraspecific Competition -- 2.1.2. Interspecific Competition -- 2.2. Neutrality and the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.3. Predators and Parasites and the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.4. A Conceptual Model of the Evolution of Biodiversity -- 2.5. Avoidance of Competition, Cooperation and Biodiversity -- Chapter 3 -- Biodiversity in Space -- 3.1. Biodiversity Is Autopoietic -- 3.2. Biodiversity Is Autocatalytic -- 3.3. Biodiversity Is Fractal -- 3.3.1. Biogeographical/Evolutionary Theories and Hypotheses: -- 3.3.2. Ecological theories: -- 3.4. Biodiversity Is Three-Dimensional -- 3.5. Biodiversity Is Dynamic -- Chapter 4 -- Biodiversity and Gaia -- 4.1. Gaia Is Biodiversity -- 4.2. How Gaia's Biodiversity Makes Earth Alive -- 4.2.1. The First Criticism: Teleology and Natural Selection -- 4.2.2. The Second Criticism: Reproduction -- 4.2.3. The Third Criticism: Reproducibility -- Part III: Monitoring Biodiversity -- Chapter 5 -- Sampling Biodiversity -- 5.1. The Sampling Effort and How to Sample