PAUL REUBER, Münster : Writing History – Writing Geography. Zum Verhältnis von Zeit und Raum in Geschichte und Geographie / Writing History – Writing Geography. On the Relationship between Time and Space in History and Geography
In philosophy and the social
sciences, space and time are often regarded as the two basic categories of
human insight. They are not primarily relevant as objective patterns of
“chronology” and “chorology” but as social constructions.
In this respect the historical and geographical imaginations of society can be
seen as discourses which shape the dominant narratives of space and time. In
the course of the “spatial turn” within cultural studies, spatial
representations and imaginations have played a growing role in understanding
the structure and differentiation of society. In the way that Modernity was the
period in which historical conceptions dominated social and cultural theories
as a kind of meta-narrative, social scientists are now beginning to examine concepts
of space, spatiality and the geographical imagination more seriously. This
development is relevant not only with regard to scientific concepts but also to
new modes of politicizing space and place in order to reinforce key concepts
such as diversity, difference and coexistence in a Post-Modern society.
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