Table Of ContentThe Spatial Turn
Across the disciplines, the study of space has undergone a profound and sustained
resurgence. Space, place, mapping, and geographical imaginations have become
commonplace topics in a variety of analytical fields in part because globalization
has accentuated the significance of location. While this transformation has led to
a renaissance in human geography, it also has manifested itself in the humanities
and other social sciences. The purpose of this book is not to announce that space
is significant, which by now is well known, but to explore how space is analyzed
by a variety of disciplines, to compare and contrast these approaches, identify
commonalities, and understand how and why differences appear.
The volume includes works by 13 scholars from a variety of geographical
regions and disciplines. All have published about how space is used, represented,
and given meaning in their respective fields. The chapters combine up-to-date lit-
erature reviews concerning the role of space in each discipline and several offer
original empirical analyses. The introduction surveys the development of the spa-
tial turn across the fields under consideration. Some chapters are concerned with
Geography; others explore the role of space in contemporary Anthropology,
English and Hispanic studies, Sociology, Religion, Political Science, Film, and
Cultural Studies.
Despite frequent reference to the spatial turn, this is the first volume to explicitly
address how theory and practice concerning space are used in a variety of fields
from diverse conceptual perspectives. This book will appeal to everyone conduct-
ing conceptual and theoretical research on space, not simply in Geography, but in
related fields as well.
Barney Warf is Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His
research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography,
particularly economic and political issues.
Santa Arias is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. She
specializes in the literatures of colonial Latin America and interdisciplinary
approaches to the study of literature and culture.
Routledge studies in human geography
This series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within
Human Geography. Titles will reflect the wealth of research which is taking
place in this diverse and ever-expanding field.
Contributions will be drawn from the main sub-disciplines and from innova-
tive areas of work which have no particular sub-disciplinary allegiances.
Published:
1. A Geography of Islands 6. Mapping Modernities
Small island insularity Geographies of Central and
Stephen A. Royle Eastern Europe 1920–2000
Alan Dingsdale
2. Citizenships, Contingency and
the Countryside 7. Rural Poverty
Rights, culture, land and the Marginalisation and exclusion in
environment Britain and the United States
Gavin Parker Paul Milbourne
3. The Differentiated Countryside
8. Poverty and the Third Way
Jonathan Murdoch, Philip Lowe,
Colin C. Williams and Jan
Neil Ward and Terry Marsden
Windebank
4. The Human Geography of
East Central Europe 9. Ageing and Place
David Turnock Edited byGavin J. Andrews
and David R. Phillips
5. Imagined Regional
Communities 10. Geographies of
Integration and sovereignty Commodity Chains
in the global south Edited byAlex Hughes and
James D Sidaway Suzanne Reimer
11. Queering Tourism 20. Family Farms
Paradoxical performances at gay Harold Brookfield and Helen
pride parades Parsons
Lynda T. Johnston
21. China on the Move
12. Cross-Continental Migration, the State, and the
Food Chains Household
Edited by Niels Fold and Bill C. Cindy Fan
Pritchard
22. Participatory Action Research
13. Private Cities Approaches and Methods
Edited by Georg Glasze, Chris Connecting People, Participation
Webster and Klaus Frantz and Place
Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and
14. Global Geographies of Post Mike Kesby
Socialist Transition
Tassilo Herrschel 23. Time-Space Compression
Historical Geographies
15. Urban Development in Barney Warf
Post-Reform China
Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu and Anthony 24. Sensing Cities
Gar-On Yeh Monica Degen
16. Rural Governance 25. International Migration and
International perspectives Knowledge
Edited by Lynda Cheshire, Allan Williams and Vladimir
Vaughan Higgins and Geoffrey Baláž
Lawrence
26. The Spatial Turn
17. Global Perspectives on Rural Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Childhood and Youth Edited by Barney Warf and Santa
Young rural lives Arias
Edited by Ruth Panelli, Samantha
Punch, and Elsbeth Robson
Not yet published:
18. World City Syndrome
27. Design Economies and the
Neoliberalism and inequality
Changing World Economy
in Cape Town
Innovation, Production and
David A. McDonald
Competitiveness
John Bryson and Grete Rustin
19. Exploring Post Development
Aram Ziai
28. Whose Urban Renaissance? 30. Critical Reflections on Regional
An International Comparison of Competitiveness
Urban Regeneration Policies Gillian Bristow
Libby Porter and Katie Shaw
29. Tourism Geography
A New Synthesis Second Edition
Stephen Williams
The Spatial Turn
Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by
Barney Warf
and
Santa Arias
First published 2009
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Contents
List of illustrations ix
Notes on contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
1 Introduction: the reinsertion of space in the
humanities and social sciences 1
BARNEY WARF AND SANTA ARIAS
2 Taking space personally 11
EDWARD W. SOJA
3 Spacing movements: the turn to cartographies and
mapping practices in contemporary social movements 36
SEBASTIÁN COBARRUBIAS AND JOHN PICKLES
4 From surfaces to networks 59
BARNEY WARF
5 Geography, post-communism, and comparative politics 77
JEFFREY KOPSTEIN
6 Retheorizing global space in sociology: towards a
new kind of discipline 88
HARRY F. DAHMS
7 Sex and the modern city: English studies and the
spatial turn 102
PAMELA K. GILBERT
8 The geopolitics of historiography from Europe
to the Americas 122
SANTA ARIAS
viii Contents
9 “To see a world in a grain of sand”: space and
place on an ethnographical journey in Colombia 137
MARGARITA SERJE
10 Spatiality and religion 157
JOHN CORRIGAN
11 The cultural production of space in colonial Latin
America: from visualizing difference to the circulation
of knowledge 173
MARISELLE MELÉNDEZ
12 Documentary as a space of intuition: Luis Buñuel’s
Land Without Bread 192
JOAN RAMON RESINA
References 207
Index 230
Illustrations
Table
3.1 Bureau d’Études war times chronicles: poles in the
reorganization of the terrestrial production line 49
Figures
3.1 Entering the official liberation zone (root cause) 39
3.2 Normopathic complex 46
3.3 World monitoring 47
3.4 Inklings of autonomy 48
3.5 Mapa de la Sevilla Global 50
3.6 Cartographies of the Straits of Gibraltar 51
3.7 “Que se vayan todos” 55
8.1 “Map of South America,” by Thomas Kitchin 131
8.2 “Mexico of New Spain, in which the Motions of Cortés
may be traced,” by Thomas Kitchin 133
8.3 “Mapa del Nuevo-mundo,” by Tomás López Enguidanos 134
9.1 The last forest of the Sierra Nevada de Santa María 143
11.1 Woodcuts prints from Epistola de insulis in mari Indico
nuper inuentes (1494) 174
11.2 Mine of Gualgayoc as depicted by the bishop of
Trujillo del Peru in his collection of watercolor
illustrations of his diocese, 1782–5 180
11.3 “Ficoides peruvina” and “Elichrysum Americanum”
as portrayed by Louis Feuillée in his expedition to
South America, 1709–11 181
11.4 “Map of the courses of the rivers Huallaga and Ucayali
in the Pampa of Sacramento,” composed by Fr. Manuel
Soberviela and engraved by Joseph Vazquez
in Lima, 1791 185
12.1 A regional map locating Las Hurdes 197
12.2 Mountain range of Las Hurdes 198
