Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and social: how spaces are descri…
French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu's relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu's ideas, addresses the str…
"French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu's relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu's ideas, addresses the st…
Istanbul is for Pamuk what Paris is for Baudelaire: an inexhaustible source of inspiration and spleen. But, if the French poet is more conscious of his states of mind, the most widely read contemporary Turkish novelist seems at first to deliberately disregard the fact that any d…
This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topic is sparse. This collection …
Ce travail de recherche-création constitue une quête ontologique sur les potentialités d'être et de son inscription dans les espaces selon mon point de vue. « Habiter la parole », sujet phare de mes explorations éclectiques, s'organise autour d'une pensée interdisciplinaire empr…
Theory: space, signs, and bodies -- Myth-busting: writing collective identities in space -- Cultural literacy, resources, and social spaces -- Space and the overdetermination of "choice"--Oral narratives and constructing spatial selves -- Conclusion: cathedrals, prisons, and rev…
This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism.
"La question identitaire se situe au coeur des interrogations sur les sociétés contemporaines. Quel rôle l'espace joue-t-il dans l'articulation des processus identitaires et à quels échelons territoriaux ? Comment les mutations du monde contemporain influent-elles sur le rapport…
«A long-standing market-leading text for urban geography courses with a Canadian perspective, Canadian Cities in Transition, now in its sixth edition, continues to examine the critical issues and major transformations taking place in urban Canada. Examining all facets of Canadia…
Philosophy begins in the city states of Classical Greece. And in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the pl…
This volume provides an invaluable resource for advanced-level students of place and space in philosophy, geography, sociology and urban studies. It includes coverage of all the major terms, theories and concepts, examines specific cities and historical contexts, and explores fu…
