Marc Augé poursuit son anthropologie du quotidien en explorant les non-lieux, ces espaces d'anonymat qui accueillent chaque jour des individus plus nombreux. Les non-lieux, ce sont aussi bien les installations nécessaires à la circulation accélérée des personnes et des biens que…
"Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches. Place attachments a…
"Certain bizarre spaces, where disruption or disarray rule, leave us estranged and 'out of place'. This book examines such spaces, highlighting the emotional and mediated geographies of uncertainty and the state of being 'in-between'; of cognitive displacement, loss, fear, or ex…
"Certain bizarre spaces, where disruption or disarray rule, leave us estranged and 'out of place'. This book examines such spaces, highlighting the emotional and mediated geographies of uncertainty and the state of being 'in-between'; of cognitive displacement, loss, fear, or ex…
An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries o…
