"Theorizing sociospatial relations" is a thoughtful and provocative foray into currentrnparadigms of socially specific spatial relations. It offers an effective critique of one-rndimensional models of such relations-namely, those that privilege territory, place,rnscale, or network as possessing exclusive explanatory and predictive value. On thernauthors' account, these models claim far more than they can deliver. Each givesrna partial analysis of the "concrete-complex" of sociospatial relations; none suffices torngive an adequate theory of the whole of such relations. In particular, each commits anrnerror of pars pro toto, and it does so by being too narrow and analytical, too vaguernin conceptual specification, or too reductionistic. Each declares itself to be uniquelyrnvalid for the grasp of the spatial aspects of social relations; thus each commits thernerror of being unduly "centrist" (eg, "place-centric", "network-centric", etc). Proceedingrnby a critique that is parallel to deconstruction in philosophy, the authors demonstraternthe blindness and shortcomings of such centrisms, which thereby fail to give the "thickrndescription" that spatial-social relations calls for.
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