Spatial formations (Theory,Culture and Society)

Contents......Page 2
List of Tables and Figures......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Introduction......Page 7
Theories of Practice......Page 10
Take 1: \"But ask yoursef: in what sort of case, in what kind of circumstances, do we say, \"Now I know how to go on\"?\'......Page 11
Take 2:\rFurther Down the Ontic Trail......Page 15
Modest Theory......Page 22
Notes\r......Page 30
Earlier...\r......Page 32
Introduction\r......Page 33
Notes\r......Page 37
lntroductiion: The Problem of Translation......Page 38
The Two Responses to the Problem of Structure and Agency:\rDeterminism and Voluntarism......Page 39
The Structurationist School: Towards a Non-Functionalist Social\rScience......Page 40
The Implications of the Structurationist School for Marxist Social\rTheory......Page 43
The Reproduction of Labour-Power......Page 44
Some Problems\r......Page 45
A Non-Functionalist Theory of Social Action in Space and Time: A\rResearch Agenda......Page 46
The Locale\r......Page 47
Four Aspects of Social Action......Page 49
Conclusions......Page 52
Notes\r......Page 53
From the Perspective of the Actor......Page 55
From the Perspective of Society......Page 56
Practical Knowledge......Page 57
Empirical\rKnowledge......Page 58
Types of Knowledge and the Availability of Knowledge......Page 59
The Geography of Social Knowing and Unknowing......Page 61
The Physical Availability of Political Knowledge......Page 65
The Interpretation of Political Knowledge......Page 66
Notes\r......Page 67
Introduction\r......Page 69
Human Agent/Negative Ascriptions......Page 70
Human Agent/Positive Prescriptions......Page 71
Storytime......Page 72
A Better World? The Shift to the Left in English Political Accounts\rDuring the Second World War......Page 74
The Contexts of Talk......Page 77
The New Accounts......Page 81
A Postscript: Fulham in 1945......Page 84
Notes\r......Page 85
Later...\r......Page 86
Introduction\r......Page 87
The Magic Has Not Gone Away......Page 88
Introduction......Page 91
Human Ecology......Page 92
Marxism......Page 93
The Ideology\rof Everyday Time Practice......Page 94
An Exploration of New Forms of Time Consciousness in Medieval\rEngland......Page 97
Texts......Page 98
Devices\r......Page 100
Systems of Discipline......Page 103
Conclusions......Page 110
Notes......Page 112
Introduction......Page 113
International Credit Money......Page 114
The New International Financial System: Governing without\rGovernment?......Page 117
Global Cities......Page 122
The \'Traditional\' City: The City of London pre-Bretton Woods......Page 125
The \'De-traditionalising\' City: The City of London post-Bretton Woods......Page 128
Notes\r......Page 133
Introduction......Page 135
An Emergent Structure of Feeling......Page 136
Speed, Light, Power: Mobility......Page 138
The Nineteenth Century......Page 139
The Twentieth Century......Page 143
The Late Twentieth Century: Mobility......Page 146
The Unsettling: Travelling Between History and Geography......Page 149
Speed......Page 155
Power......Page 157
Writing Mobility......Page 158
Conclusions......Page 159
Selected Writings by\rNigel Thrift and Others......Page 162
Bibliography......Page 166
Index......Page 184