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Time Geography: 50 Years of Thinking about Population, Time and Territories
Facilitators: Sonia CHARDONNEL (PACTE) & Christina LINDKVIST (Malmö University, Sweden)
Following on from Hägerstrand’s 50-year-old paper “What About People in Regional Science” (1970), we claim that time geography still provides guidance in how to grasp social and spatial change processes. Ellegård (2018) shows how time geography has developed and spread to different disciplines and become incorporated into other theoretical and methodological perspectives. The time-geography framework has proven successful in constantly connecting the individual with the global level in the analysis of space-time processes, as well as in considering mobilities from different perspectives: everyday mobilities (Novak et al., 2007; André-Poyaud et al., 2008), migrations (King, 2012), gender (Kwan, 1999; Scholten et al., 2012), accessibility (Elleder et al., 2018; Colleoni & Vitrano, 2018).
The “glocal condition” (Brenner, 1998) produces a variety of rhythms and spatialities. In this broad context, we propose to focus on research issues that investigate the relations between movements of people and territorial rhythms. We encourage contributions discussing perspectives on population as well as the spatiality of mobilities in terms of its shaping of new forms of territories and of its impacts on everyday life for different social groups. We invite scholars in this session to present papers on topics dealing with people’s practices within different spatial contexts or forms of spatial development. Among the core issues to be addressed will be accessibility and forms of mobility. By way of example, there is the use of time geography to analyse accessibility in time and space (Fosset et al., 2017). A second example involves using time geography to understand the interconnection between the needs of individuals and different social groups and priorities that guide infrastructure investments, transport planning and mobility policy (Scholten & Joelsson, 2019). In general, contributions should discuss how the time-geography framework has been useful in terms of conducting analysis (either in its own right or in conjunction with other theoretical frameworks) and how it can be used as a specific methodological tool.
Indicative bibliographical references
André-Poyaud I., Chardonnel S., Charleux L., Tabaka K., 2008, « La mobilité au cœur des emplois du temps des citadins », in Y. Chalas & F. Paulhiac (dir.), La mobilité qui fait la ville, Lyon, Certu, p. 67-95.
Brenner N., 1998, “Global Cities, Glocal States: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary Europe”, Review of international political economy, 5(1), p. 1-37.
Colleoni M., Vitrano C., 2018, “Lo spazio temporizzato. Svantaggio e conflitti temporali nella città notturna”, in P. De Salvo & A. Pochini (dir.), La città in trasformazione. Flussi, ritmi urbani e politiche, Roma, Aracne, p. 135-148.
Elldér E., Larsson A., Solá Ana G., Vilhelmson B., 2018, “Proximity Changes to What and For Whom? Investigating Sustainable Accessibility Change in the Gothenburg City Region, 1990-2014”, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 12(4), p. 271-285.
Ellegård K. (dir.), 2018, Time Geography in the Global Context: An Anthology, Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
Fosset P., Banos A., Beck E., Chardonnel S., Lang C., Marilleau N., Thevenin T., 2016, “Exploring Intra-Urban Accessibility and Impacts of Pollution Policies with an Agent-Based Simulation Platform: GaMiroD”, Systems, 4(1), p. 5.
Hägerstrand T., 1970, “What About People in Regional Science?”, Papers of the Regional Science Association, n° 24, p. 7-21.
King R., 2012, “Geography and Migration Studies: Retrospect and Prospect”, Population, Space and Place, 18(2), p. 134-153.
Kwan M. P., 1999, “Gender and Individual Access to Urban Opportunities: A Study Using Space–Time Measures”, The Professional Geographer, 51(2), p. 210-227.
Novak J., Sykora L., 2007, “A City in Motion: Time-Space Activity and Mobility Patterns of Suburban Inhabitants and the Structuration of the Spatial Organization of the Prague Metropolitan Area”, Geografiska Annaler, 89B(2), p. 147-167.
Scholten C., Friberg T., Sandén A., 2012, “Re‐Reading Time‐Geography from a Gender Perspective: Examples from Gendered mobility”, Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 103(5), p. 584-600.
Scholten C. L., Joelsson T., 2019, Integrating Gender into Transport Planning: From One to Many Tracks, Palgrave Macmillan US.
