Ep#1 - Space and Place

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Beyond Colouring-In: A Geography Podcast

Ben Garlick

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Beyond Colouring-In is a podcast dedicated to geographical ideas and approaches. Each episode features an informal conversation between presenter and academic lecturer Ben Garlick and a different guest as together they explore a chosen geographical concept or research methods. An accompanying list of suggested readings is also provided for the extra curious. The podcast aims to offer an accessible introduction to the debates of academic geography, and an alternative way into some complex ideas for those already engaged in study. Produced and edited by Ben Garlick

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Ep#1 - Space and Place

Beyond Colouring-In: A Geography Podcast

19 minutes 16 seconds

3 years ago

Ep#1 - Space and Place

In this episode, Dr Ben Garlick is joined in conversation by Dr Pauline Couper, Geographer and Associate Head of the School of Humanities, York St John University, to discuss the interlinked key concepts of 'space and place'. They begin by exploring what these everyday terms mean to us, and the associations they conjure, before expanding and critically discussing each term, and what they bring to the thought and work of academic geographers.

Below, for those who are interested, are some links to relevant readings that flesh out the concepts / topics discussed...

Key Reading #1: Doreen Massey's famous essay/chapter ' A Global Sense of Place', first published in Marxism Today in 1991, and later included in her book Space, Place and Gender. In this classic piece, Massey argues for an 'extroverted' or outward-looking understanding of places as 'meeting places', is impossible to understand or explain in their particularity and character without following their connections with other places and times. Link: http://www.aughty.org/pdf/global_sense_place.pdf

Key Reading #2: Tim Cresswell's excellent introductory account of the concept of place and some of the key writings by geographers on this subject provides an excellent overview of much of what was discussed in the episode. Link: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Place/sdzhBQAAQBAJ?hl=en

Further Reading: Yi Fu Tuan's highly influential, humanist and phenomenological account of space and place that, in particular, foregrounds place as something to be known, and attached to, through the senses. Link: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Space_and_Place/Ln2fQgAACAAJ?hl=en

Further Reading: Stuart Elden's short article from the mid-2000's provides a neat overview of Henri Levefebvre's ideas around The Production of Space, and in particular his arguments about the political nature of space and its construction under capitalism (available via ResearchGate). Link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stuart-Elden-2/publication/304885956_There_is_a_Politics_of_Space_because_Space_is_Political_Henri_Lefebvre_and_the_Production_of_Space/links/5a9ed3130f7e9badd99e7766/There-is-a-Politics-of-Space-because-Space-is-Political-Henri-Lefebvre-and-the-Production-of-Space.pdf