Matthew Hannah

Direction and Socio-spatial Theory (eBook, ePUB)

A Political Economy of Oriented Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book advances theoretical reflection on the concept of direction. It argues that direction is fundamental to humankind and that a clearer understanding of how it operates in late-modern societies is required. This, it is argued, is particularly so in an age of globalisation, social networking and mass media information that is often unanchored from place. The book unravels how directedness is a pivotal political and economic issue in contemporary capitalist societies and explores the socio-spatial implications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351668910
• Artikelnr.: 54793990

Autorenporträt

Matthew G. Hannah holds the Chair in Cultural Geography at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research has addressed relations between constructions of space, power and state knowledge, as well as various aspects of social theory and historical geography. His previous books include Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth Century America (2000) and Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Foundations
1. Political economies of attention
2. Toward a political phenomenology of attention
3. The directedness of practice
Part II: Turning-in-the-world
4. Turning subject
5. Turning-as-relation: direction, alienation and montage
6. Turning and reification
Part III: Direction, socio-spatial theory and ethics
7. Occupation and directed practice: outline of a political economy
8. Visualizing directed social practice
Conclusion: ethics and directional responsibility