Space

<p><i>Space</i> is the first accessible text which provides a comprehensive examination of approaches that have crossed between such diverse fields as philosophy physics architecture sociology anthropology and geography.</p><p>The text examines the influence of geometry arithmetic natural philosophy empiricism and positivism to the development of spatial thinking as well as focusing on the contributions of phenomenologists existentialists psychologists Marxists and post-structuralists to how we occupy live structure and perform spaces and practices of spacing. The book emphasises the multiple and partial construction of spaces through the embodied practices of diverse subjects highlighting the contributions of feminists queer theorists anthropologists sociologists and post-colonial scholars to academic debates. In contrast to contemporary studies which draw a clear line between scientific and particularly quantitative approaches to space and spatiality <i>and</i> more ‘lived’ human enactments and performances this book highlights the continual influence of different mathematical and philosophical understandings of space and spatiality on everyday western spatial imaginations and registers in the twenty-first century.</p><p>Space is possibly <i>the</i> key concept underpinning research in geography as well as being of central importance to scholars and practitioners working across the arts humanities social sciences and physical sciences. </p>