Core, Periphery, Frontier Spatial Patterns of Power (Hardcover)

Prof. Dr. Christoph Ulf

ISBN 10: 3847112384 / ISBN 13: 9783847112389

Published by V&R unipress GmbH, Gottingen, 2021

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Hardcover. Die Begriffe Zentrum und Peripherie sind im Diskurs von Macht und Herrschaft wesentlich. Aus einer breiten Palette methodisch wie regional unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen werden in diesem Band Einzelstudien praesentiert, die einem weiten Raum von Mitteleuropa im Westen, Japan im Osten und AEgypten im Sueden entstammen. Davon ausgehend, dass die Betrachtung raeumlicher Aspekte dazu beitragen kann, neue Erkenntnisse ueber die Phaenomene Macht und Herrschaft zu gewinnen, werden die verschiedenen Weisen der Raumproduktion untersucht. Der gemeinsame Fokus aller Beitraege ist die Rolle einer Dichotomie von Zentrum/Kerngebiet und Peripherie/Grenzen in einem repraesentierten, vorgestellten Raum. Diese Fokussierung erleichtert es, transkulturelle AEhnlichkeiten und Ansaetze historischen Vergleichens auszumachen.Centre and periphery, two notions essential in the discourse of power and domination, tend to be reificated as a static, inert relation of an active, dominating centre on one side with an acquiescent, docile periphery on the other. Far before a spatial turn came into vogue, philosophers like Immanuel Kant or sociologists such as Georg Simmel pointed out that space is not an entity existing besides human perceptiveness respectively without any relation to society. In this book specialists in the history of various premodern societies are discussing manifold kinds of spatial differentiations and within that the role of a seemingly ubiquitous dichotomy between centre/core and periphery/frontier. The researches cover a vast region spanning from Central Europe in the West to Japan in the Farthest East and Egypt in the South. Zentrum vs. Peripherie was kann uns das ueber Macht und Herrschaft sagen? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Core, Periphery, Frontier Spatial Patterns of Power (Hardcover)
• Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH, Gottingen
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847112384
• ISBN 13: 9783847112389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Centre' and 'periphery', two notions essential in the discourse of power and domination, tend to be reificated as a static, inert relation of an active, dominating centre on one side with an acquiescent, docile periphery on the other. Far before a 'spatial turn' came into vogue, philosophers like Immanuel Kant or sociologists such as Georg Simmel pointed out that space is not an entity existing besides human perceptiveness respectively without any relation to society. In this book specialists in the history of various premodern societies are discussing manifold kinds of spatial differentiations and within that the role of a seemingly ubiquitous dichotomy between centre/core and periphery/frontier. The researches cover a vast region spanning from Central Europe in the West to Japan in the Farthest East and Egypt in the South.