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The nature of space /

"In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space."--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Santos, Mílton (Author)
Other Authors: Baletti, Brenda C., 1975- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the English-language edition
  • Milton Santos : rebel of the backlands, insurgent academic, prescient scholar / Susanna Hecht
  • Techniques, time, and geographic space
  • Space : systems of objects, systems of action
  • Geographic space, a hybrid
  • Space and the notion of totality
  • From the diversification of nature to the territorial division of labor
  • Time (events) and space
  • The current technical system
  • Unicities : the production of planetary intelligence
  • Objects and actions today : norms and territory
  • From the natural milieu to the technical-scientific-informational milieu
  • For a geography of networks
  • Horizontalities and verticalities
  • Spaces of rationality
  • Place and the everyday
  • Universal order, local order: Summary and conclusion.