Socio spatial dialectic3/5/2023 ![]() Political reading of the last three essays (chapters) which - in Soja's own words - "atempt to give greaterĮmpirical and interpretive substance to these arguments."(p.7)Ĭapter 7 - "The historical geography of Urban and Regional Restructuring" - identifies the political taskįor a critical socio-spatial science as "making theoretical and practical sense of the contemporary The arguments of these first 6 chapters thus remain abstract claims that need to be tested by a More or less plausible working hypothesis until substantiated by the elaboration of a concrete political The political relevance and emancipatory potential of geography remains a Spatiality of being".(p.131) But pragmatist epistemology precludes the question wether "space matters" toīe established in the abstract. In chapter 5 Soja is trying to ground his argument in "ontology", claiming an "existential The dawning of a reassertion of space, most prominantly in the writings of Lefebvre, Foucault and recentlyĭavid Harvey. The first 156 pages (chapters 1-6) of Postmodern Geographies are telling the story of this neglect and Historical Materialism' has to become "historico-geographical materialism"(p.7). Particulary the Marxist tradition to which Soja wants to contribute: Soja's claim is that 'Marxist Geography (and its subject matter space) concerns not only the established social sciences, but History, which has supposedly been unduly priviledged over the last hundred years. Soja's main thesis is that geography can contribute to the emancipatory political project as much as Insight and practical political consciousness."(p.1) Soja himself conceives his critical theory as a form of political writing, "a source of emancipatory The meaning of theory fulfills and reveals itself in the practise it directs. Ultimately reside in the political consequences that are drawn or might be drawn from such theorizing. Lecture delivered at Architectural Association, LondonĪ "political reading" generally assumes that the possible meanings of theory in the "humanities" Soja 's "Postmodern Geographies" - a political Soja 's "Postmodern Geographies" - a political reading
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