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The spatial and the political : close encounters

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The spatial and the political have been particularly affected by the turbulence and progress that social sciences have been undergoing. They have been the subject of rethinking from the inside and discussion from the outside. It is now important to turn these innovations to profit in more concrete terms. With this end in view, we shall put forward a few remarks on the relationship between the spatial and the political, as being two dimensions of the social totality. The linking of the two will not be envisaged in the mode of an intersection (which would belong to each of both sets at once), but in that of perspective. If it is accepted that society cannot be cut up into slices without changing its taste, then a good cooking method consists in combining the ingredients in their entirety according to an original recipe. At this point we shall ask ourselves about the advantages there might be in providing the geographical approach with a political «filter» (in the photographic sense) and in observing society geographically while enhancing its political «colour». And we shall attempt to estimate what part of social reality has thus been captured, treated and fixed.

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    Jacques Lévy

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Georges B. Benko (Professor of geography) (Professor of geography)

  2. Department of Geography, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK

    Ulf Strohmayer

  3. Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA

    Ulf Strohmayer

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Lévy, J. (1995). The spatial and the political : close encounters. In: Benko, G.B., Strohmayer, U. (eds) Geography, History and Social Sciences. The GeoJournal Library, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1681-9_15

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