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Creating New Worlds out of Old Texts
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Barker, Elton T. E. Bouzarovski, Stefan Isaksen, Leif |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Despite earlier expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, ‘maps matter’ today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago. Technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with spatial formations, while the ever-increasing mobility of ideas, capital and people has created a world in which urban and regional inequalities are being heightened at an accelerating pace. As a result, the ability of any given place to reap the benefits of global socio-technical flows mainly hinges on the forging of connections that can transcend the limits of its material location. In contrast to the traditional ‘topographic’ perspective, the territorial extent of economic and political realms is being increasingly conceived though a ‘topological’ lens: as a set of overlapping reticulations in which the nature and frequency of links among different sites matter more than the physical distances between them. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://oro.open.ac.uk/34489/1/0_hestia_introduction.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
