Time Geography
2020 (English)In: International Encyclopedia of human geography / [ed] Audrey Kobayashi, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2020, 2, p. 283-289Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Time-geography is a descriptive and analytical geographical framework initially developed in the late 1960s and the early 1970s by the Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004). Time-geography consists of a conceptual apparatus and a graphic notation system by which the time-spatial embeddedness and couplings of human and nonhuman geographical beings and their corporeal (material) geographical conditions for existence can be mapped and investigated.
Time-geography is founded on a matter-realistic ontology that explicitly recognizes the material, corporeal nature of geographical beings and their geographical settings as demarcated somewhere on the Earth's surface. Reflected in its notation system, the methodology of time-geography is guided by the principle of always simultaneously keeping track of both spatial and temporal features of material geographical events.
Time-geography has been applied in numerous areas in human geography, as well as in a large number of studies in a variety of different disciplinary settings. As a research program on its own, time-geography has increased the conceptual and empirical knowledge of time-space conditions of and for geographical beings and their geographical existences.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2020, 2. p. 283-289
Keywords [en]
Conceptual apparatus, Corporeality, Coupling, Geographical beings, Individual, Matter-realistic, Notation system, Pockets of local order, Prism, Time-geographic diagram, Time-geography, Time-space, Time-spatial constraints, Trajectory, Visual representation
National Category
Cultural Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Human Geography
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-91753DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10344-0Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85144646977ISBN: 978-0-08-102296-2 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-91753DiVA, id: diva2:1390853
2020-02-032020-02-032023-01-03Bibliographically approved