The tradition of spatial research and geographical imagination
This paper systematically combs the related achievements of space research,based on the differences in disciplinary perspectives,and traces back the space research vein of philoso-phy,sociology,and geography,this paper makes a distinction between empiricism,pragmatism,and criticism,and probes into the knowledge pedigree of space research.The fuzziness of the concept,especially the confusion about the use of the concept of"Space",is an important prob-lem in the study of space theory,in the context of the"Spatial turn"in humanities and social sci-ences and the"Social turn"and the"Cultural Nothing in Common"in geography,the exploration of geography breaks the single thinking pattern of space research,and the analysis frame of"Time-space-society(or attribute)"has become the most powerful analysis tool to explain geo-graphical phenomena and construct geographical order.The imagination of geography is funda-mentally reshaped through the intersection and collision of disciplines.Through the analysis of knowledge archaeology of"space",this study reveals the internal process and logic of the evolu-tion of space research in the ontological sense,which can establish a platform for dialogue and exchange for interdisciplinary research on space problems,and also provide a useful mirror for the self-reflection and critical reflection of the current geography discipline.
space researchdimensiongeographical imaginationspace-time thinking
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