Time space and humanity: matters of scale?

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Time space and humanity matters of scale?
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Time attributes

• Series
• Cycles
• Scenes
• Episodes
• Phases
• Events
• Time frame
• Resolution

• Date
• Duration thickness
• Order tense
• Rate of change continuity / discontinuous
• Frequency
• Synchronization

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Time scales

• Second
• Minute
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• Hour
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• Day
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• Month
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• Week

•  Year
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• Decade
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• Century
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• Era
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• History
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• Pre History
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• Geological

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Space

• Location
• Distance
• Direction
• Area 
• Point
• Line
• Volume
• Surface

• Nodes
• Vectors
• Flows
• Resolutions

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Space

• Socially mediated
• Body
• House
•   Home Community Institution Street City R
  ural
•   Region Nation
• Supra-national block
•   World

• Administrative
• ED
• Ward
• District
• County
• Nation
• Continent
• World

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But whose scale?

• Scientists?
• Historians?
• Anthropologists?
• Factory owner or workers?
• Conservation agency or developer
• Archivist or style guru?
• Tourist or taverna owner?

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People time and space

• Absolute or relative?
• General or unique?
• Experiential place or space?
• Monumental?
• Social?
• Natural or cultural?
• Theoretical or empirical?

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Evidence for processes of change in space

• Morphological study survey
• Maps
• Air photos
• Remotely sensed data
• Archaeological investigation
• Dating methods
• Documentary sources textual analysis
• Interviews
• Focus groups
• Questionnaires
• Photography
• Observation

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How have human geographers approached scale
in time and space? 
Philosophical approaches to time and space can be
linked to contested approaches to the discipline
in general
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How have human geographers approached scale
in time and space? How have human
geographers approached scale in time and
space?1. Time and space as description of the
unique e.g. Clifford Darby and historical
regional geographies. Post-war orthodoxy in
British Geography. Empiricist source driven
research. Wide time spans, , cross sectional
mappings and vertical themes links to the
regional tradition. Focus on cultural
landscapes. Not individuals. Not process. Forms
to be described.   
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How have human geographers approached scale
in time and space? 
2. Time and space as objects for spatial
science e.g. Janelle (1968)   Time space
convergence, network analysis, point pattern
analysis, objectification of the social.
Locational analysis. Catastrophe theory.
Objectification and reification for spatial
forms. Carried forward by GIS. Spatial modelling.
   
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How have human geographers
approached scale in time and space? 3. Lived
time and placee.g. Hägerstrand Small scale,
short term individual approaches e.g. Time Space
diary exercises. Humanistic and relativistic.
Recent shift to more positioned studies oriented
around the everyday places e.g. Valentine
(2001). 
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How have human geographers
approached scale in time and space?4. Time and
space as socially mediated  Marxist approaches
to time and space regard time as the logical
outcome of a mode of production Feudal
time Colonial time Post- modern time
etcSpatial forms at any time reflect class
relations e.g.Harvey (1989) time space
compressionProcesses that so revolutionise the
objective qualities of space and time that we are
forced to alter in sometimes quite radical ways,
how we represent the world to ourselves  Focus
is upon structure, scales are large, the dynamic
of change is of concern, emphasis upon process
and explanation. 
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How have human geographers approached
scale in time and space? 5.Time and space as
metaphors and representations e.g. Barnes
(1996) Postmodern emphases upon time and space
as contested fields of representation, focus upon
language and meaning, upon critical
interrogation. Scale hugely contingent upon
context.