Secondspace
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Space as it is conceived, as opposed to space that is directly perceived. For example, the conception of a space based on a map or description. countable, uncountable
"Although there is an epistemology to the study of Firstspace, it is in Secondspace that epistemological discourse receives the greatest attention. In the long history of geographic thought, Secondspace approaches have been turned to most often when mainstream Firstspace approaches have become too rigidly materialist and "scientistic," as with the various critiques that emerged in response to the epistemological closures of positivist human geography."
- 2 Alternative form of Secondspace. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
"Conceived space, secondspace, also described as representations of space, is the domain in which the meanings or ways of imagining space are identified and discursively set 'via control over knowledge, signs and codes' (1 996, p 67)."
Example
More examples"Although there is an epistemology to the study of Firstspace, it is in Secondspace that epistemological discourse receives the greatest attention. In the long history of geographic thought, Secondspace approaches have been turned to most often when mainstream Firstspace approaches have become too rigidly materialist and "scientistic," as with the various critiques that emerged in response to the epistemological closures of positivist human geography."
Etymology
Coined by E.W. Soja as second + space
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