Human Geography at the End of Time? Some Thoughts on the Notion of Time-Space Compression

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ID4476328
AuthorsRobert A Dodgshon (University of Wales, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume17
Issue5
Pages607-620
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d170607
OpenAlexW2006668928
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited25

In this paper I look at the suggestion that time-space compression is changing our experience of time and space. In particular, the extent to which it is seen as raising the importance of a spatial perspective to our understanding of society is contrasted with how some writers have depicted it as rupturing our relationship with the past and its carryover of meaning. For some, this temporal disjuncture is seen as marking the end of History and as reducing our experience of time to a series of 'perpetual presents' . These a historical ideas are challenged and a case presented for maintaining an inclusive treatment of what is past, or inertial, within society

Aesthetics · Compression (physics · Epistemology · Geometry · Inertial frame of reference · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Perspective (graphical · Raising (metalworking · Sociology · Space time · Spacetime · Time-Space · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Artificial Intelligence

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