The satisfaction of human needs in physical and virtual spaces
Competition ; Internet ; Social geography ; Space ; Virtual space ; e
This article explores the spatial dimension of Maslow's theory on the hierarchy of human needs, in light of the growing role of virtual space via the Internet in the contemporary information age.It explains that the growing role of virtual space has
evolved into an equivalent hierarchical relation-ship with physical space: complementarity, competition, substitution, escape, and, potentially also exclusivity. Escape from physical to virtual space, as both need and relationship, has been brought about
by social networking, being similar to the physical escape offered by tourism. It does not seem real to foresee that virtual space will offer exclusive fulfillment of as of yet unforeseen new human needs.
Emergency shelter topologies : locating humanitarian space in mobile and material practice
Catastrophe ; Materiality ; Mobility ; Political geography ; Space ; Topology
This article focuses on the emergency family tent and the shelter kit and traces the topological associations of humanitarian spaces as enacted through humanitarian practice. The former is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations
of a network topology by acting as an ‘immutable mobile’, connecting different places of humanitarian crises with each other. In contrast, the latter is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations of a fluid topology by acting as a ‘mutable
mobile’,ordering space according to an overlapping and partly simultaneous timeline of action. These different ‘shelter topologies’ are shown to convey different assumptions about, and underlie different topographic renderings of, humanitarian space.
Preemption contested : suspect spaces and preventability in the July 7 inquest
England ; Enquiry ; London ; Political geography ; Preventive measure ; Space ; Space time ; Terrorism ; United Kingdom
and preemption, and concomitant questions of suspect spaces, are engaged, debated, accepted and rejected. It argues that the Inquest rendered July 7 2005 from a fast a familiar framing as anticipated catastrophe, into a ‘matter of concern’ in the sense discussed
by Bruno Latour. It also considers the ambiguous nature of the Inquest, and the way in which it both opened space for public debate and alternative conceptions of futurity; and closed down such space by accepting and normalising notions of networked threat.
Primitive accumulation and the production of abstract space : Nineteenth-century mire reclamation on Gotland
Bog ; Capital accumulation ; Economy ; Island ; Nineteenth Century ; Reclamation ; Space ; Sweden
In Henri Lefebvre's work, abstract space entails qualitatively new ways of envisioning and strategically arranging the sites within which capital accumulation and everyday life are to unfold. This paper sets out to delineate how this premise can
the conjunction of three spatialities, representing three key lines of struggle over abstract space. The abstraction and avowed homogeneity of space was produced and regulated by concurrent ideological maneuvers against customary practice, leveled by scientific
Bringing democracy back home : community localism and the domestication of political space
This paper identifies four spatial practices through which marginalised communities in England apply the technology of localism to challenge the limitations of their positioning and imprint promises of empowerment and democracy on space. Drawing
on the work of Judith Butler, the paper theorises these practices as the incursion into the public realm of regulatory norms related to domestic and private spaces, rendering political space familiar and malleable, and suggesting that power and decision making
can be brought within reach. It is argued that these spatial practices of community rehearse a more fundamental transformation of the political ordering of space than that authorised by the state strategies of localism.
Youth drinking in public places : the production of drinking spaces in and outside nightlife areas
Alcoholism ; Behaviour ; Legislation ; Neighbourhood ; Production of space ; Public space ; Social geography ; Street ; Switzerland ; Urban area ; Young people ; Zurich
This article analyses youth drinking in public places through the production of drinking spaces in and outside nightlife areas in Zurich, Switzerland. The results suggest that the normative landscapes of drinking are constructed differently
to develop a regulation approach on drinking in the post-industrial city that is sensitive to young people as co-producers of space.
Contestation and bracketing : the relation between public space and the public sphere
Activism ; Concept ; Contestation ; Political geography ; Public space
This article examines contestation and bracketing through the relation between public space and the public sphere. By clarifying this relation it aims to bring out how public space can be seen as the site of political practices distinct from those
Aquatic ecosystem ; Community ; Cultural studies ; Finland ; Fishing ; Lake ; Man-environment relations ; Space time ; Stream ; Tradition ; Watershed
socio-ecological relationships between Finns and lakes, rivers, and marshes-mires. First, the 'engine' of endemic time-space research, land use, and occupancy documentation, is explored in the Finnish context. Then two catchment areas, Kokemäenjoki
in Western Finland and Vuoksi in Eastern Finland, provide cases which illustrate both past endemic time-spaces and surviving aspects of cultural readings of lakes and rivers. . As industrial uses of catchment areas, zoning, and environmental permitting
Emotional encounters in sacred spaces : the case of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Community ; Emotion ; Florida ; Religion ; Social geography ; Space ; United States of America
as well as discuss the spiritual significance of these sites. We found that these spaces transcended the “everyday,” had a considerable capacity to inspire emotio-spiritual encounters, particularly feelings of peace, and further served as evidence
Colonization ; Israel ; Political geography ; Production of space ; Snow ; Space ; Winter sports resort
that ultimately undo the normalization of the colonial space, comprising a test case of the convoluted ways in which mimicry of space, not merely in space, generates various forms of slippage, excess and ambivalence.
Encountering poverty : space, class, and poverty politics
Chicago ; Illinois ; Middle class ; Montana ; Poverty ; Social geography ; Social interaction ; Space ; Spatial interaction ; United States of America
This paper focuses on moments and spaces of encounter in which middle class people come into contact with “poor others”, through the examples of a welfare office in rural Montana and in community revitalization meetings in inner-city Chicago
neighborhood. It explores how middle class encounters with poverty are mediated by two sets of spatial processes: processes of (self)government and of radical contact. In each case, it examines the ways in which these spaces of encounter foster governance
A new kind of beauty out of the underlying scaling of geographic space
Architecture ; Connectivity ; France ; Geographical space ; Ile-de-France ; Kansas ; Paris ; Population density ; Scale ; Space ; Street ; United States of America
Geographic space demonstrates scaling or hierarchy, implying that there are far more small things than large ones. The scaling pattern of geographic space, if visualized properly can evoke a sense of beauty. This beauty is a new type of aesthetic
work The Nature of Order. To paraphrase Mandelbrot, this is beauty for the sake of science rather than for art's sake or for the sake of commerce. Throughout the article, we attempt to argue and illustrate that the scaling of geographic space possesses
Fear and fortification frame most discourse and policy on alcohol in circulatory spaces. In-vehicle spaces and boarding points command most attention in regulatory practice and in surveys. Observational fieldwork in Cape Town suggests alternative
sites and scales of interest and concern relating to mobility and alcohol abuse. Liquid spaces are a dimension of lived and felt mobility disadvantage and stress among the urban poor. - (AJC)
Livelihood shifts and gender performances : space and the negotiation for labor among East Africa's pastoralists
This article examines livelihood shifts and gender performances through space and the negotiation for labor among East Africa's pastoralists. The research demonstrates that the women and men interviewed are deeply aware of how space conveys
Fieldwork unbound : spaces of association in postconflict Vietnam
Identity ; Narrative ; Research ; Societal relations ; Space ; United States of America ; Vietnam ; War
This article traces the ways in which the field emerges and becomes emplaced among three groups of people by presenting an inclusive reading of fieldwork in postconflict Vietnam. It employs a heuristic device called spaces of association
A modern-day treaty process in British Columbia, Canada, involving First Nations and the federal and provincial governments, entails a struggle to carve out both metaphoric and material space for indigenous land and title. Despite considerable
of this multiplicity offers valuable lessons for our understanding of the contemporary space of postcolonial reconciliation.
Time-space differences of population ageing in Europe
Europe ; Population ; Population ageing ; Population pyramid ; Socio-economic indicators ; Space time ; Twentieth Century ; Twenty-first century
The main aim of the paper is to analyse the time-space development of the age structure of the European population. The period of investigation is 1950-2010 which is extended by a projected development until 2060. Changes in age structure
The semantic production of space : pervasive computing and the urban landscape
This paper suggests that as pervasive computing technologies have gained purchase in urban space they have also become more implicitly blended with everyday life and more contingent on information that is inductively compiled from Internet-based
into conversation in order to examine the consequences of a convergence between implicit pervasive technologies and the spaces of everyday life.
The AA. present the Real-Space Cellular Automaton Laboratory (ReSCAL), a powerful and versatile generator of 3D stochastic models. The aim of this software suite, released under a GNU licence, is to develop interdisciplinary research collaboration
to investigate the dynamics of complex systems. The models in ReSCAL are essentially constructed from a small number of discrete states distributed on a cellular grid. An elementary cell is a real-space representation of the physical environment and pairs
El tren fantasma: arcs of sound and the acoustic spaces of landscape
Landscape ; Mediation ; Mexico ; Space ; Topography
connects and differentiates contingently across heterogeneous spaces and materials. It shows how sound participates in the production of the railway corridor in Mexico as a complex, animate and deeply contoured historically and geographically specific