Geography's place in time

Dodgshon, Robert A.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2008.00272.x

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“…Geographers have also begun to valorise experiential or 'kairological' time, which they distinguish from chronological 'clock time'. Some view it as more real (Dodgshon 2008); as ontological rather than epistemological (Uprichard 2008). Like the problematic pairing of place and space (Massey 2005), however, a dualistic binary of kairological and chronological time is unhelpful.…”

Section: Theorising Space and Time In Young Rural Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Like the problematic pairing of place and space (Massey 2005), however, a dualistic binary of kairological and chronological time is unhelpful. From a relational perspective, calendared or chronometered times are proxy measures (Dodgshon 2008), ways of experiencing time that are fundamentally cultural. While arguably 'unreal' (Schatzki (2006) echoes Bergson's view that 'real' time is continuous and cannot be decomposed to discrete instants in the way imagined of 'objective' time), chronological time nonetheless enables humans to coordinate their activities and investigate the world (Schatzki 2006).…”

Section: Theorising Space and Time In Young Rural Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…SPACE, TIME AND TIME-SPACE Human geographers increasingly view both time and space as socially constructed and relational; not neutral containers in which things happen, but existing only in and through happenings and relations (Dodgshon 2008;Massey 2005). But space and time also shape social life and human subjectivity: '[w]e do not develop some notion of the human subject and then insert it into grids of space and time.…”

Section: Theorising Space and Time In Young Rural Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet AIDS-related sickness and death have distinct temporalities that interweave with their spatialities. This paper draws on recent work theorising time-space in human geography (Massey 2005;Crang 2005;Dodgshon 2008) to examine the time-spaces of young people's experiences of AIDS. In particular, it draws on notions of time-space as heterogeneous and relational, kairological and topological, rather than Cartesian or linear (Cope 2007, Panelli 2007, to draw attention to how the time-space structuring of society, including young people's everyday lives and transitions to adulthood shape the outcomes of familial sickness and death in diverse and unpredictable ways.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Spaces, Times, and Critical Moments: A Relational Time–Space Analysis of the Impacts of AIDS on Rural Youth in Malawi and Lesotho

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Section: Theorising Space and Time In Young Rural Livesmentioning

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Section: Theorising Space and Time In Young Rural Livesmentioning

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Section: Theorising Space and Time In Young Rural Livesmentioning

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“…There are in fact competing attempts to produce lists of these and the resulting permutations [such as Dodgshon's (2008) salutary listing of thirty-seven different facets traced back into various approaches within geography]. So this must be a more strategic intervention to tease out a few key lines from these papers.…”

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Temporal Ecologies: Multiple Times, Multiple Spaces, and Complicating Space Times

Crang

2012

Environ Plan A

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CommentaryTemporal ecologies: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times It has become rightly de rigeur for critical geography to talk of spacetime as linked together. What the papers gathered here also show is that this handy linking into one term is, if useful and important, also, in some ways, a chaotic conceptualisation. In one sense this is because space and time interact in a multitude of ways-whose complex patterning this theme issue does so much to illustrate. In a rather deeper sense it is because the terms space and time actually convey many different senses. The question this collection of papers raises is what kind of 'time' is seen interacting with what kind of 'space' when we talk of spatiotemporal geographies. What kinds of times, what kinds of spaces, and what resulting timespaces do we see in these critical geographies? The timing and placing of events often reveal issues of power and inequality for sure. But I want to suggest we can see in these papers how power is etched into the kinds of times and spaces that organise events and through which events unfold. If it is commonplace to follow Lefebvre's (1991, page 334) argument that social confl ict and power are not just a matter of social relations and contradictions in space but of space, then the same must apply to time and by extension the forms of timespace. What is clear is the plurality of possibilities that are presented in the papers for how these combinations work.In this discussion there is not room to lay out an exhaustive account of the possible permutations of spaces, times, and spacetimes. There are in fact competing attempts to produce lists of these and the resulting permutations [such as Dodgshon's (2008) salutary listing of thirty-seven different facets traced back into various approaches within geography]. So this must be a more strategic intervention to tease out a few key lines from these papers. Adam (2003) points to four 'c's' structuring concerns in social studies of time-the commodifi cation of time, the control of times, the colonisation of the future, and the creation of time to human design. These give us a way in which to look at some of the constellations revealed within and between the papers.We might start with the most familiar sense of locating events in time and space through time geography. Classically this approach has been underpinned by a notion of abstract space and abstract time. This then is the world in which space becomes reduced to coordinates of location east-west and north-south which gives rise to infi nitely divisible and exchangeable units in an infi nitely open series (x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , … , x n , y 1 , y 2 , y 3 , … , y n ). Thus locations differ only by placement in the series and they can be ever more fi nely subdivided into smaller components, or indeed added together to form larger units. The only change is quantity. It drains out all substantive content from space and replaces it with empty, exchangeable units of measurement. What this facilitated was the rapid commodif...

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