The nature of space /

The Nature of Space is a translation of pioneering geographer Milton Santos' A Natureza do Espaço, originally published in Brazil in 1996. The book offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology, producing a system of ideas that can catalyze a descriptive and in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santos, Mílton (Author)
Other Authors: Baletti, Brenda C., 1975- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2021]
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the English-language edition
  • Milton Santos : rebel of the backlands, insurgent academic, prescient scholar / Susanna Hecht
  • Techniques, time, and geographic space
  • Space : systems of objects, systems of action
  • Geographic space, a hybrid
  • Space and the notion of totality
  • From the diversification of nature to the territorial division of labor
  • Time (events) and space
  • The current technical system
  • Unicities : the production of planetary intelligence
  • Objects and actions today : norms and territory
  • From the natural milieu to the technical-scientific-informational milieu
  • For a geography of networks
  • Horizontalities and verticalities
  • Spaces of rationality
  • Place and the everyday
  • Universal order, local order: Summary and conclusion.