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`Debarbieux continues to traverse with ease the Anglophone/Francophone border in social theory with this most recent work, a creative and highly readable exploration of the political significance of social imaginaries of space. Through a series of conceptual essays and related case studies, or in his terms detours , he crafts an intriguing, jargon-free narrative that examines the spatial imaginings that have generated the territorial ideals and practices of modern states and nations. Debarbieux further demonstrates that while the rhetoric of post-nationalism and globalization has changed the content of these imaginaries, it has not diminished their constitutive role. His is a cosmopolitan vision but one that does not dismiss the power of particularism, especially evident in the place loyalties that have become so prominent in current national and global political debate.' -- J. Nicholas Entrikin, UCLA and University of Notre Dame, US `Social Imaginaries of Space explores a crucial contact zone between cultural and political geographies. Written by a major figure of contemporary francophone geography, this ambitious book brilliantly analyses how spatial imaginaries have continuously constituted societies and their mutations in the modern era.' -- Ola Soederstroem, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

`Debarbieux continues to traverse with ease the Anglophone/Francophone border in social theory with this most recent work, a creative and highly readable exploration of the political significance of social imaginaries of space. Through a series of conceptual essays and related case studies, or in his terms detours , he crafts an intriguing, jargon-free narrative that examines the spatial imaginings that have generated the territorial ideals and practices of modern states and nations. Debarbieux further demonstrates that while the rhetoric of post-nationalism and globalization has changed the content of these imaginaries, it has not diminished their constitutive role. His is a cosmopolitan vision but one that does not dismiss the power of particularism, especially evident in the place loyalties that have become so prominent in current national and global political debate.' -- J. Nicholas Entrikin, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Notre Dame, US `Social Imaginaries of Space explores a crucial contact zone between cultural and political geographies. Written by a major figure of contemporary francophone geography, this ambitious book brilliantly analyses how spatial imaginaries have continuously constituted societies and their mutations in the modern era.' -- Ola Soederstroem, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

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Bernard Debarbieux, University of Geneva, Switzerland Translated from French by Sheila Malovany Chevallier

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