[Air-L] Article/literature on "conceptions of space/place" for teaching
Daniel Kunzelmann
kunzelmann.daniel at yahoo.de
Mon Apr 6 14:14:41 PDT 2015
Dear list!
To all the ones who have contributed their must-read so far: you rock!
Since some of you have already asked me whether I will collect the
suggestions and put them together into a small bibliography? Yes, I
will! However, this will take a while. I do have to prepare my teaching
now :)
best,
Daniel
Dear all,
Anyone wants to share their*must-read* with me?
I'm teaching an undergraduate course this upcoming semester in the field
of*digital anthropology*. The seminars title: "*Place. Culture.
Cybersp_ace.* Cultural and Social Anthropological conceptions of
space/place ["Raum"] in the context of digital transformations." (the
German title is a bit difficult to translate, because "Raum" seems to
have a wider notion).
Together with my students I want to discuss *how
digitalization/digitization changes todays places/spaces and our
conceptions of those (physical, social, political, urban, hybrid,
etc.)*. By "digitalization/digitization" I mean the empirical - material
and symbolic - phenomena, not the concept (e.g. locative media-in-use,
digital infrastructures, social media, etc.). Using theoretical texts, I
want them to acquire *knowledge on the key concepts of "space" and/or
"place".* How can we think space and/or place? And how can we apply such
concepts in order to better understand todays digital developments in
many spheres of (everday) life?
My idea would be to teach*two types of concepts*:
a.) *"new"* Cultural and Social Anthropological concepts and theories of
space/place that *explicitly talk about and refer to digital phenomena.*
b.) *"classical"* ones that do*NOT explicitly talk about these issues*,
but that you would consider highly applicable to understand such
phenomena.
I'd be very happy if you would share your knowledge and insights with me
and my students
Wishing you a happy Eastern from stormy Munich,
Daniel
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**Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c**
**Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich**
**Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology**
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