Spatial Imaginaries Research in Geography: Synergies, Tensions, and New Directions
Spatial Imaginaries Research in Geography: Synergies, Tensions, and New Directions
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地理学中的空间想象研究:协同作用、张力和新方向
DOI:
10.1111/gec3.12228
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
J. Watkins
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作者:
J. Watkins
Human geographers have produced a diverse, and growing, body of literature documenting the existence and consequence of spatial imaginaries. However, reviews explaining and evaluating how geographers conceptualize and empirically verify spatial imaginaries, along with the field's tensions and potential directions, are lacking. This article addresses this gap by assessing geography's spatial imaginary literature. I identify shared features across the literature, while arguing geographers have, in fact, verified three different kinds of spatial imaginaries: imaginaries of places, idealized spaces, and spatial transformations. The article recommends researchers better account for these three, both their differences and relationalities. I also explain and evaluate geography's four competing conceptions of spatial imaginaries' ontology. Some geographers see them as semiotic orders, other geographers believe them to be worldviews, yet spatial imaginaries are predominantly viewed as representational discourse. Recently, however, some geographers have argued them to be performative discourses. This article advocates viewing spatial imaginaries as performative; arguing this view – among other things – clarifies the association between spatial imaginaries and material practices while offering new research directions for the field.
DOI:
10.1068/a39367
发表时间:
2010
期刊:
Economy and Space
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作者:
Golubchikov O
通讯作者:
Golubchikov O