This essential guide to social theory and space is written by one of the leading writers in the
field. Nigel Thrift explores the interconnections among people, places and things and …

The debate about the role of theory in human geography has now spanned two decades.
This debate has largely bypassed medial geography which has remained, with one or two …

Deconstruction has become a theme in various strands of geographical research. It has not,
however, been the subject of much explicit commentary. This paper elaborates on some …

The embodied directedness of human practice has long been neglected in critical socio-
spatial theory, in favor of analyses focused upon distance and proximity. This book illustrates …

In some rather deep sense, we are all geographers, historians and philosophers, aware of
space and place, of change over time and of our ability to reflect carefully upon the natural …

Why are there communication problems between the different disciplines of the social
sciences? And why should there be so much misunderstanding? Most probably because the …

On culture, space, and materiality ith another fin de siècle in full bloom, these are great times
in which to 1W seek knowledge in the human sciences. After postmodernism, after the …

This essay reexamines key debates within the German social and human sciences. The"
Methodenstreit" of 1883, the" Werturteilsstreit" of 1909-12 and the" Positivismusstreit" of …

The following essay attempts to illuminate the production of “presences” in the course of
European modernity. It argues that the disintegration of a stable and local presence is one of …

This essay addresses one of the defining characteristics of debates within human
geography and across the social sciences during the last ten years: the encounter between …