The Nature of Space

Milton Santos, Brenda Baletti, Susanna Hecht

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Duke University Press
06 October 2021

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Social groups; Social theory; Human geography

Series: Latin America in Translation

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. Santos offers a theory of human space based on relationships between time and ontology. He argues that when geographers consider the inseparability of time and space, they can then transcend fragmented realities and partial truths without trying to theorize their way around them. Based on these premises, Santos examines the role of space, which he defines as indissoluble systems of objects and systems of actions in social processes, while providing a geographic contribution to the production of a critical social theory.

By: Milton Santos
Introduction by: Susanna Hecht
Translated by: Brenda Baletti
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781478014409
ISBN 10: 1478014407
Series: Latin America in Translation
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 06 October 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction to the English-Language Edition: Milton Santos: Rebel of the Backlands, Insurgent Academic, Prescient Scholar / Susanna Hecht vii Introduction 1 Part I. An Ontology of Space: Founding Ideas 1. Techniques, Time, and Geographic Space 13 2. Space: Systems of Objects, Systems of Action 34 3. Geographic Space, a Hybrid 53 Part II. The Production of Content-Forms 4. Space and the Notion of Totality 69 5. From the Diversification of Nature to the Territorial Division of Labor 81 6. Time (Events) and Space 91 Part III. For a Geography of the Present 7. The Current Technical System 111 8. Unicities: The Production of Planetary Intelligence 124 9. Objects and Actions Today: Norms and Territory 142 10. From the Natural Milieu to the Technical-Scientific-Informational Milieu 157 11. For a Geography of Networks 177 12. Horizontalities and Verticalities 192 13. Spaces of Rationality 198 Part IV. The Power of Place 14. Place and the Everyday 215 Universal Order, Local Order: Summary and Conclusion 229 Notes 237 References 241 Index 273

Milton Santos (1926–2001) was Professor of Geography at the University of SÃo Paulo and the author of many books, including The Shared Space: The Two Circuits of the Urban Economy in Underdeveloped Countries. Brenda Baletti teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Susanna Hecht is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles and Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Reviews for The Nature of Space

Milton Santos was one of the most important Black thinkers in the Americas writing in the last four decades, one of the most important Brazilian intellectuals of all time, and one of the most cited and noteworthy geographers in Latin America. This extremely important translation subverts our tendencies to ignore scholarship being produced in the global South and marks a key step in decolonizing thought in US academe. -- Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, author of * Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil * Milton Santos is one of the most distinguished intellectuals of our epoch. So many of us have learned from him. I have long seen in his work something that became one of my modus operandi: transversality . . . not the familiar knowledge silos but the cutting across of those silos. -- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University Milton Santos has offered one map for crossing the perilous terrain of academic specialties. At a time when so many take geography for granted as maps appear at our fingertips with the click of a button, this deeply humanistic guide may prompt us to ask anew where in the world we have been set down. -- Lawrence Rosen * Boston Review *