Gibt es eine Geographie ohne Raum? Zum Verhältnis von traditioneller Geographie und zeitgenössischen Gesellschaften

Abstract: The idea of human geography as a spatial science may be valuable in the context of pre-modern societies. Because of the embeddedness of these societies, spatial categories allow an approximate description of social and cultural facts, even if they have no spatial existence. Late-modern societies, however, are disembedded. Due to this fact, there is no homogeneous attribution of meaning to spatial facts guided by tradition. Social and cultural universes have no fixed spatial existence. By this, we now discover the real ontology of the social and the cultural: meanings are not rooted in territories or material objects. They are attributed and their attribution may be different far every agent and even for every action. Any so-called spatial argument for the explanation of social action is first subject to the pitfall of the reductionism of vulgar materialism, and second to a misconception: that of the reification of space as a material object. Instead of 'space', geographers should c.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2288

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Gibt es eine Geographie ohne Raum? Zum Verhältnis von traditioneller Geographie und zeitgenössischen Gesellschaften ; volume:47 ; number:4 ; year:1993 ; Erdkunde ; 47, Heft 4 (1993)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Werlen, Benno

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1993.04.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410290846506.516931867399
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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