[Air-L] Article/literature on "conceptions of space/place" for teaching

Jen Jack Gieseking jgieseking at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 10:18:21 PDT 2015


As an anthropologist, Setha Low's work is a great fit for you.

The entire *The People, Place, and Space Reader* would be of help too:
http://peopleplacespace.org/

Enjoy

--
Jen Jack Gieseking
Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media and Data Visualization
Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, Bowdoin College
www.jgieseking.org
www.peopleplacespace.org
@jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking>



On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:27 PM, M.E. Luka <meluka at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi all,
> I've been watching this string with interest - it's particularly useful for
> the artist group I'm a part of (
> https://www.facebook.com/narrativesinspaceandtimesociety,
> http://www.narrativesinspaceandtime.ca/). As it happens, I thought it
> might
> also be useful for the other members of my group to see a compilation of
> the list that was being developed through this thread, so I've started that
> compilation.
>
> It needs the formatting to be finished, but as I've got it to this stage,
> thought it would be useful to share as is.
>
> Also, I've added a couple of items related to the work NiS+TS is doing, and
> other work in this part of the eastern seaboard.
> Regards,
> ME
> Mary Elizabeth Luka
> twitter | instagram: meluka01
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>
>
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Daniel Kunzelmann <
> > kunzelmann.daniel at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> >>
> >>
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