Chapter 23: Space and Place
John Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles)
in J.
Agnew and D.
Livingstone (eds.
) Handbook of Geographical Knowledge.
London:
Sage, 2011 (forthcoming)
The question of space and place in geographical knowledge is...
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Chapter 23: Space and Place
John Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles)
in J.
Agnew and D.
Livingstone (eds.
) Handbook of Geographical Knowledge.
London:
Sage, 2011 (forthcoming)
The question of space and place in geographical knowledge is ultimately not just about
whether the question of “where” matters in the way that “when” does in explaining
“how” and even “why” something happens.
It is also about how it matters.
Given that
both space and place are about the “where” of things and their relative invocation has
usually signaled different understandings of what “where” means, it is best to examine
them together rather than separately.
That is the purpose of this chapter.
Contrary perhaps to first appearance, space and place are fairly complex words.
The Oxford English Dictionary gives over about two pages to space and around three and
a half pages to place.
Space is regarded largely as a dimension within which matter is
located or a grid within which substantive items
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