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11 - Time/Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

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Kevin Fox Gotham
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Peter Kivisto
Peter Kivisto
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Augustana College, Illinois
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This essay addresses major debates involving time/space relationships in classical social theory.It focuses on conceptualizations of time/space distanciation, compression, and intensification; discusses recent scholarship on the causal impacts, developmental trajectories, and consequences of time/space rescaling; and delineates the homogenizing impacts and diversification features of temporal-spatial restructuring in research on tourism, entertainment, and spectacle.

Compression, distanciation, financialization, intensification, rescaling, tourism

Kevin Fox Gotham is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Liberal Arts (SLA) at Tulane University.He has research interests in real estate and housing policy, the political economy of tourism, and the intersections of crime, violence, and security.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 206 - 226
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Print publication year: 2020

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