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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'

This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Rob Shields convincingly presents the importance of spatialization and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lies within these theoretical tools. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of time and space, seeking to understand the multiplicity of spatializations and relate them to our everyday life

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 is an introduction to the 20th anniversary special issue of Space and Culture and overview of the experience of working on the journal.

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.

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