CUL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Determinism, Regatta Hotel, Geopolitics

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL120
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Reciprocal relationship with the spaces in which we live: the is no unspatialized social reality (soja 1996, culture is, always situated, always located, always spatial, and always geographic (ryan 2010) Theorising space + place (henri lefebvre, production of space) Space is becoming the principal stake of goal-directed actions and struggles" (1974: space is a constituent of culture: The site of connections, actions and struggles; The medium of strategies": space is produced in various ways, from absolute or natural space to social space (1974) Space isn"t just there but is produced by culture; space also creates cultures. More from lefebvre: spatial procedures" (use + consumption of space, representation of space" (knowledge/discourses/ideologies on space, representational space" (representations of space generated by those living in spaces. What about place": point of location in a given space, linked > identity, belonging" and home", the realm of personal/collective experiences and memory. Problem with thinking of space as intimate, bounded, fixed.