Looking through H盲gerstrand鈥檚 dual vistas: towards a unifying framework for time geography
- 作者：Daniel Sui sui.10@osu.edu
- 关键词：Time geography ; Hä ; gerstrand ; Representations of space and time
- 刊名：Journal of Transport Geography
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：76_09666923
- 类别：soc
- 出版时间：July, 2012
- 卷：23
- 期：Complete
- 页码：5-16
- 文件大小：355 K
摘要
The publication of H盲gerstrand鈥檚 seminal paper on the conceptual framework of classic time geography in 1970 has inspired a steady stream of research in multiple fields related to transportation, planning, geography, ecology, environmental science, and public health. Just like most other scholarly work, H盲gerstrand鈥檚 time geography has also received its fair share of criticism from scholars of different philosophical persuasions. In response to these criticisms, Torsten H盲gerstrand himself made significant efforts to extend his original framework on time geography to move beyond paths, constraints, prisms, and projects during the last 30 years of his life. Yet these diverse later efforts by H盲gerstrand are still scattered in the literature and have not exerted as much influence on time geography research as original paper. The goal of this paper is to take stock of the major extensions H盲gerstrand made for time geography between 1970 and 2004. By linking H盲gerstrand鈥檚 shifting views on time geography to the ancient Greek conceptualization of space and time, a unifying framework based upon the Greek manifolds of space and time is proposed for time geography. The new framework not only restores the multiple dimensions of time geography as H盲gerstrand envisioned later in his life, but also links the diverse ongoing time geography research efforts to themes derived from the framework. Future research challenges in time geography are also discussed.