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Dark and magical places : the neuroscience of navigation
\"An illuminating examination of how the brain helps us to understand and navigate space-and why, sometimes, it doesn't work the way it should. Navigation is one of the most complex tasks our brains perform. And we do it countless times a day-as we drive across town to the airport, or traverse the maze of a supermarket, or walk within our own homes. But why is it that some people are lost on their own street and others can seamlessly navigate a new city after visiting it once? Fueled by his own spatial shortcomings, Christopher Kemp describes the brain regions that orient us in space and the specialized neurons-place cells and grid cells-that do it. He explains how the brain plans routes, recognizes landmarks, and makes sure we leave a room through a door instead of a painting. Along the way, he meets the scientists trying to understand the mental maps of modern humans, and Neanderthals, and lost people everywhere. Dark and Magical Places is an informed and entertaining journey into the mysteries of the mind\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mapping Region in Early American Writing
Mapping Region in Early American Writingis a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions-imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively-played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemical, others simply documentary. As a whole, they recreate important mental mappings and cartographies, and they reveal how diverse populations imagined themselves, their communities, and their nation as occupying the American landscape.
Focusing on place-specific, local writing published before 1860,Mapping Region in Early American Writingexamines a period often overlooked in studies of regional literature in America. More than simply offering a prehistory of regionalist writing, these essays offer new ways of theorizing and studying regional spaces in the United States as it grew from a union of disparate colonies along the eastern seaboard into an industrialized nation on the verge of overseas empire building. They also seek to amplify lost voices of diverse narratives from minority, frontier, and outsider groups alongside their more well-known counterparts in a time when America's landscapes and communities were constan
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Inhabited spaces : Anglo-Saxon constructions of place
\"We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles in a constant state of tension. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Anglo-Saxon models of the universe featured a spherical earth at the centre of a spherical universe ordered by God. They sought to shape the universe into knowable places, from where the earth stood in the cosmos, to the kingdoms of different peoples, and to the intimacy of the hall. Discenza argues that Anglo-Saxon works both construct orderly place and illuminate the limits of human spatial control.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Liminal Landscapes
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these and other mobilities. The ritual, performative and embodied geographies of borderzones, non-places, transitional spaces, or 'spaces in-between' are often discussed in terms of the liminal, yet there have been few attempts to problematize the concept, or to rethink how ideas of the liminal might find critical resonance with contemporary developments in the study of place, space and mobility.
Liminal Landscapes fills this void by bringing together variety of new and emerging methodological approaches of liminality from varying disciplines to explore new theoretical perspectives on mobility, space and socio-cultural experience. By doing so, it offers new insight into contemporary questions about technology, surveillance, power, the city, and post-industrial modernity within the context of tourism and mobility.
The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, film, media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, and tourism studies. It brings together recent research from scholars with international reputations in the fields of tourism, mobility, landscape and place, alongside the work of emergent scholars who are developing new insights and perspectives in this area.
This timely intervention is the first collection to offer an interdisciplinary account of the intersection between liminality and landscape in terms of space, place and identity. It therefore charts new directions in the study of liminal spaces and mobility practices and will be valuable reading for range of students, researchers and academics interested in this field.
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German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn
In the last few decades, the phrase \"spatial turn\" has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography. The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women's writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.
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Beschreiben und Vermessen
Long description: Raumwissen ist Macht – vor allem in einer zur Großmacht aufstrebenden Monarchie. Mit der Landesbeschreibung als neuzeitlichem Wissensformat wächst das Wissen um die – östliche – Peripherie des Habsburgerreiches im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert immens. Die Ergebnisse der umfangreichen Kartierung und Vermessung nutzen Administration, Militär und Wissenschaft. Die Verwaltung der Peripherie wird effektiver, was nicht zuletzt das Militär zu schätzen weiß. Geographie, Ethnologie und Militärwissenschaften machen große Fortschritte.
Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes geben einen Überblick über die Herausbildung des neuzeitlichen Raumwissens im Habsburgerreich. Sie zeigen, welche Vorstellungen, Denkweisen und Positionen dem zugrunde liegen, diskutieren damit verbundene theoretische, methodische und inhaltliche Fragen und verdeutlichen so die administrative, wissenschaftliche und diskursive Praxis der Herausbildung eines vollkommen neuen Wissenschaftsverständnisses.
Biographical note: Reinhard Johler ist Professor am Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Tübingen und Leiter des Instituts für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde in Tübingen.
Josef Wolf ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde und leitet dort den Forschungsbereich Historische Siedlungsforschung.
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Seeking spatial justice
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the citys Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the citys poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also, for renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a concrete example of spatial justice in action.In Seeking Spatial Justice , Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, he demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. Soja focuses on such innovative laborcommunity coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial justice and putting it into practice.Effectively locating spatial justice as a theoretical concept, a mode of empirical analysis, and a strategy for social and political action, this book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary debates about
justice, space, and the city.
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Learning to think spatially
Learning to Think Spatially examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be recognized as a fundamental part of K-12 education and as an integrator and a facilitator for problem solving across the curriculum. With advances in computing technologies and the increasing availability of geospatial data, spatial thinking will play a significant role in the information-based economy of the twenty-first century. Using appropriately designed support systems tailored to the K-12 context, spatial thinking can be taught formally to all students. A geographic information system (GIS) offers one example of a high-technology support system that can enable students and teachers to practice and apply spatial thinking in many areas of the curriculum.
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Phase Media
In Phase Media, James Ash theorizes how smart objects, understood as Internet-connected and sensor-enabled devices, are altering users' experience of their environment. Rather than networks connected by lines of transmission, smart objects generate phases, understood as space-times that modulate the spatio-temporal intelligibility of both humans and non-humans. Examining a range of objects and services from the Apple Watch to Nest Cam to Uber, Ash suggests that the modulation of spatio-temporal intelligibility is partly shaped by the commercial logics of the industries that design and manufacture smart objects, but can also exceed them. Drawing upon the work of Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon and Bruno Latour, Ash argues that smart objects have their own phase politics, which offer opportunities for new forms of public to emerge. Phase Media develops a conceptual vocabulary to contend that smart objects do more than just enabling a world of increased corporate control and surveillance, as they also provide the tools to expose and re-order the very logics and procedures that created them.
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Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative
Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote,
and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding
how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how
narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally
been viewed by narratologists as a backdrop to plot. This study
argues that space serves important but under-explored narrative
roles: It can be a focus of attention, a bearer of symbolic
meaning, an object of emotional investment, a means of strategic
planning, a principle of organization, and a supporting medium.
Space intersects with narrative in two principal ways: ''Narrating
space'' considers space as an object of representation, while
''spatializing narrative'' approaches space as the environment in
which narrative is physically deployed. The inscription of
narrative in real space is illustrated by such forms as
technology-supported locative narratives, street names, and
historical/heritage site and museum displays. While narratologists
are best equipped to deal with the narration of space, geographers
can make significant contributions to narratology by drawing
attention to the spatialization of narrative. By bringing these two
approaches together-and thereby building a bridge between
narratology and geography- Narrating Space / Spatializing
Narrative yields both a deepened understanding of human
spatial experience and greater insight into narrative theory and
poetic forms.
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