spatial turn

'Spatial turn', the idea of place and space, of place as social practice and of placing as a process in accounting for the uneven movement of ideas over space and time may help provide some precision and strengthen connections between geography and history. (Withers, p. 638-9) I have been recently intrigued by two related articles:

Robert J. Mayhew, "Geography as the eye of Enlightenment historiography," Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2010, pp. 611-27.

Charles W. J. Withers, "Place and the 'Spatial Turn' in Geography and in History," Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 70, No. 4, October 2009, pp. 637-658.

And drawn to the following references, some of which might look too hard for me:

Diarmid Finnegan, ‘‘The Spatial Turn: Geographical Approaches in the History of Science,’’ Journal of the History of Biology, Vol. 41 (2007): 369–88;

Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).

John Agnew, Place and Politics (Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1987).

John Agnew and James Duncan, eds., The Power of Place (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990).

Nicholas Entrikin, The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity (London: Macmillan, 1991).

Lynn Staeheli, ‘‘Place,’’ in A Companion to Political Geography, ed. John Agnew, Kathrynne Mitchell and Gerard Toal (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 158–70.

Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997),

Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans. D. Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).

Lewis Holloway and Phil Hubbard, People and Place: The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life (Harlow: Pearson, 2001 and, as part of a series concerned with ‘‘Re-Materialising Cultural Geography,’’ Tom Mels, ed., Reanimating Places: A Geography of Rhythms (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

J. E. Malpas, Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

J. E. Malpas, Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006).

Robert Sack, Place, Consumption and Modernity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

Robert Sack, Homo Geographicus (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (London:

Verso, 1995).