The research group Space and Time in Education invites Nicholas Hardy, Ph.D., Associate professor in Sociology at the University of New Brunswick (Canada), to Tromsø for a reading seminar on abstract space.
Nicholas Hardy works with different topics within social theory, among others Marxist and post-Marxist theories, Critical Realism, as well as some of Michel Foucaults central concepts.
Furthermore, Hardy has worked on materiality as an aspect of social relations, based on a Critical Realist metatheoretical framework.
As preparation for the seminar, the participants read 3 texts, which will be discussed in the group after a short introduction by Nick Hardy. The participants will get the texts by e-mail after having registered. Registration deadline: 7th of October.
The texts to be discussed, are:
Wilson, J., 2013. “The Devastating Conquest of the Lived by the Conceived”: The Concept of Abstract Space in the Work of Henri Lefebvre. Space and Culture, 16(3), pp. 364-380.
Mels, T., 2014. Primitive Accumulation and the Production of Abstract Space: Nineteenth‐century Mire Reclamation on Gotland. Antipode, 46(4), pp. 1113-1133.
Hacking, I., 1995. The Looping Effects of Human Kinds. In: D. Sperber, D. Premack, and A. James Premack, 1996. Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate. Oxford: Clarendon, ch. 12.