The spatial turn of social and cultural history: A review of the current field
In 2010 Ralph Kingston highlighted how history’s ‘rediscovery of space and place’was firmly on the agenda for the twenty-first century. 1 Four years on this article asks whether Kingston’s claim is still valid or whether historians’ passion for all things spatial has run its course. This article rev...
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sg-smu-ink.cis_research-12452025-01-10T06:47:08Z The spatial turn of social and cultural history: A review of the current field WILLIAMSON, Fiona In 2010 Ralph Kingston highlighted how history’s ‘rediscovery of space and place’was firmly on the agenda for the twenty-first century. 1 Four years on this article asks whether Kingston’s claim is still valid or whether historians’ passion for all things spatial has run its course. This article reviews five recent collections of essays connected by themes of urban space and place, and asks how far the exploration of space as a way of understanding the past is still proving an embryonic and constructive way of approaching the past. 2014-11-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/246 info:doi/10.1177/0265691414545018 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1245/viewcontent/williamson_2014_the_spatial_turn_of_social_and_cultural_history_a_review_of_the_current_field.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection College of Integrative Studies eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Cultural History |
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In 2010 Ralph Kingston highlighted how history’s ‘rediscovery of space and place’was firmly on the agenda for the twenty-first century. 1 Four years on this article asks whether Kingston’s claim is still valid or whether historians’ passion for all things spatial has run its course. This article reviews five recent collections of essays connected by themes of urban space and place, and asks how far the exploration of space as a way of understanding the past is still proving an embryonic and constructive way of approaching the past. |
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