Unbounded boundary studies and collapsed categories: rethinking spatial objects

Article Article scientifique Article Unbounded boundary studies and collapsed categories: rethinking spatial objects eng 2010 author Fall Juliet Jane 0000-0001-5292-2232 96738 author Debarbieux Bernard 0000-0001-8745-4862 115976 author Schaffter Marius 517891 254-262 10.1177/0309132509105009 This paper is a response to Reece Jones' ‘Categories, borders and boundaries' (2009) that aims to give an alternate proposal to rethink geographical categories and boundary studies. First, it examines the various meanings of the word ‘category' as used in Jones' paper. We then stress the importance of the processes involved in constructing spatialized and unspatialized categories as a central issue for social sciences. Using different examples such as the city and the nation state, we finally argue that the triad of reification–naturalization–fetishization is a good tool to analyse the social construction of geographical categories and boundaries. Dewey 910 120 Département de géographie et environnement T2 false 939 Pôle/Institut Gouvernance de l'environnement et développement territorial (PI-GEDT) Progress in Human Geography 34 2 6195de3f-1b4e-4cf6-97e2-70d108635c11 Article (Published version) Public Schaffter Fall Debarbieux 2010.pdf 102255 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de géographie et environnement

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