Overview

The complex relations between territory and the social sciences are explained by investigators from different disciplines: geography, economy, sociology and history among them. The current ferment in the social sciences has assigned an increasingly important role to the concept of space. In this text, internationally respected authors demonstrate the renewed vigour of the concept of space within the social sciences in general, and within the historical social sciences in particular. Consciously situating human geography among these latter, the contributions advocate an integrated vision of societies, taken through the lenses of an interdisciplinary human science. Geography and history, originally united in the pursuit of understanding the concrete forms and developments of societies, are once again brought under the unifying umbrella of a spatialized human science. Human geography in particular, which has been asserting itself as a social science since the 1970s, must be rejuvenated, not only by listening to all the messages that can stimulate its theoretical construction, but also by establishing close relations with all discourses which speak of a society as a whole, made up of differently conditioned historical parts.

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Author:   Georges B. Benko ,  Ulf Strohmayer
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1995 ed.
Volume:   27
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.260kg
ISBN:  

9780792325437

ISBN 10:   0792325435
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   31 August 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Geography, History and Social Sciences: An Introduction.- 2. Lefebvre, Lacan and the Production of Space.- 3. World Time and World Space or Just Hegemonic Time and Space?.- 4. The Laguage of Space.- 5. Geography before Geography: Pre-Hellenistic Meteors and Climates.- 6. Geographical Systems and the Order of Reality.- 7. Landscape as Overlapping Neighbourhoods.- 8. The Urban and the Rural: An Historical-Geographic Overview.- 9. Space and Creativity: ‘Belle Epoque’ Paris: Genesis of a World-Class Artistic Centre.- 10. From Weimar to Nuremberg: Social Legitimacy as a Spatial Process in Germany, 1923–1938.- 11. Contemporary Acceleration: World-Time and World-Space.- 12. Structural Change, Theories of Regulation and Regional Development.- 13. Theory of Regulation and Territory: An Historical View.- 14. Territoriality and the State.- 15. The Spatial and the Political: Close Encounters.- 16. Space and Communication: A Brief Analytical Look at the Concept of Space in the Social Theory.- 17. Conclusion: The Spatialization of the Social Sciences.- List of Figures.- Contributors.

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