Summary TSP 2021, Table of Contents
I Space & Place
Lecture 1: Introduction Space & Place
Lecture 2: Phenemenology
- Phenemenology
- Heidegger
- Phenomenological philosophers
- Space-place distinction
- Versions of phenemenology
Lecture 3: Phenemenology II
- Tuan
- Relph: place and placelessness
- Ruhr Area
- Attractivity of place
Summary ‘Place: An introduction’ (Cresswell).
H1 Introduction: defining place
- Definition
- Place and landscape
- Chapters
H2 Genealogy of place
- Emergence
- Regional Geography (Describe)
- Humanistic Geography (Discover)
- Radical Human Geography
- Place as social construct
- Assembling space
- Conclusion
H3 Place in a mobile world
- Place, practice and process
- Openness and change
- End of place
- Identity and mobility
H4 Global sense of place
- Harvey’s global sense of place
- Massey’s progressive sense of place
H5 Creating places
- Use of place in research/practice
- Place and memory
- Place and architecture
- Nice place to live
- Regions and nations
- Digital place
H6 Working with place
- Use of place in research
- Sexuality
- Homeless
- Refugee
- Animals
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II Spatial Justice
Lecture 4: Liberal Distribute Paradigm (Social Justice)
- Utilitarianism
- Theory of Justice (Rawls)
- Libertarianism
- Justice as difference (Young)
Lecture 5: Spatial Justice turn
- Spatial Justice
- Marxist turn
- Right to the city (Fainstein)
Articles Spatial Justice
- Why spatial? Why Justice? (Soja)
- Just City (Fainstein)
- Just City (Novy & Mayer)
- Ends of Urban Design
- Spatial Justice and Street Art
- Climate Justice Copenhagen
Lecture 6: Spatial Justice in Covid-19
- Spatial injustices
- Chances for spatial justice
- Public health
Articles Covid-19
- Anti-capitalist politics of Covid-19 (Harvey)
- The monster is finally at the door (Davis)
- Low-paid are our lifeline
Literature Policy Analysis
Literature Institutionalism
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I. Space & Place
Lecture 1 Introduction Space & Place
- Space & place literature rooted in phenemonology (see HC2)
- understand relation space-place, mediated by humans
- intertwining social production of space + ethical responsibility
- include classical and modernist conceptualisations of social justice
● spatial turn: social sciences also interested in spatial justice
Lecture 2 Phenemenology
Phenemenology
- experience of phenomena as starting point; extract essential features (essence) from it
- observed isn’t a fixed object, but an intentional act created by consciousness
● object essence resides in individual intentional relationship with it
○ subjectively shared perception/meaning → common experience → cultures
- inner consciousness: studies phenomena from point of view of the researched
- essence is dependent; based on interpretation
● essence not as explanation of regularities, but a way people make sense of the world
Heidegger
- what is the meaning of being?
● time: horizon of being
● dead: not-being
- being is intelligible: not a thing, but a relationship between thing-human
● overcome Cartesian subject-object split; also explain it
● how can this relationship (dasein) be understood?
- dasein: way we live our life and deal with the world
- being in: own being founds knowledge, not the world around us
● lived space: subjective space created by being-in → dwelling
● dwelling: complex process of home-making; home different for everyone
Phenomenological philosophers
- Merleau-Ponty: advocate of subjectivity; own thinking is superior → inspired other thinkers
- Descartes: is what I observe real?
● res cogitans (soul/mind) and res extensa (physical world) zijn onafhankelijk
○ soul can reflect on the world → cogito ergo sum (ik denk, dus ik ben)
- Kant: space as pre-condition to observe and image the physical world
- Hegel: dualism of res cogitans + res extensa make reality a dynamic process
● thesis evokes an antitheses which generates a new synthesis
- Hüsserl: empirical knowledge never justified, so make assumptions; phenemenological reduction
● transcedental phenemenology: methodology to understand human experience
Space-place distinction
- mind thinks, but body as starting point for experiences, as the body engages with the world
● intentionality of the body; bodily perspective → able to perceive/experience space
● space: objective reality → experience → place: subjective reality
○ place is space that became familiar and meaningful because of experience