Reading Sectarian Spaces: Critical Spatial Theory and the Case of the Yahad

This article explores the spatial dynamics of agrofuels. Building on categories from the field of critical spatial theory, it shows how these categories enable a comprehensive analysis of the spatial dynamics of agrofuels that links the macro-structures of the global political economy to concrete, place-based struggles. Four core socio-spatial dynamics of agrofuel politics are highlighted and applied to empirical findings: territorialization, the financial sector as a new scale of regulation, place-based struggles and transnational spaces of resources and capital flows.

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An Altar in the Desert?

Journal of Ancient Judaism ◽

10.30965/21967954-00701009 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 123-135

Author(s):

Alison Schofield

Keyword(s):

Dead Sea Scrolls ◽

Dead Sea ◽

Spatial Theory ◽

Conceptual Spaces ◽

Spatial Practices ◽

Damascus Document ◽

The Dead ◽

Community Rule ◽

Rule Out

Jodi Magness’ proposal that an altar existed at Qumran leaves some unanswered questions; nevertheless, her conclusions are worthy of consideration. This study examines her claim that the residents at Qumran had an altar, modeled off of the Wilderness Tabernacle, through the lens of critical spatial theory. The conceptual spaces of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, such as The Damascus Document and The Community Rule, as well as the spatial practices of the site of Qumran do not rule out – and even support – the idea that Qumran itself was highly delimited and therefore its spaces hierarchized in such a way that it could have supported a central cultic site.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780190865580.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Justin Buchler

Keyword(s):

Spatial Model ◽

Spatial Models ◽

Spatial Theory ◽

Roll Call ◽

Policy Space ◽

Policy Decisions ◽

Roll Call Voting ◽

Legislative Session ◽

History Of ◽

Conventional Models

Spatial theory is divided between models of elections and models of roll call voting, neither of which alone can explain congressional polarization. This chapter discusses the history of spatial theory, why it is important to link the two strands of spatial models, and the value of reversing the order of conventional models. Conventional models place an election before policy decisions are made. This chapter proposes a unified spatial model of Congress in which the conventional order is reversed. First, there is a legislative session, then an election in which voters respond retrospectively, not to the locations candidates claim to hold, but to the bundles of roll call votes that incumbents cast to incrementally adopt their locations in the policy space. Such a model is best suited to explaining three puzzles: why do legislators adopt extreme positions, how do they win, and what role do parties play in the process?

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Overview of the research work of Prof. Fumiko Sugimoto

Impact ◽

10.21820/23987073.2021.7.26 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (7) ◽

pp. 26-29

Author(s):

Fumiko Sugimoto

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

18Th Century ◽

Research Work ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

Modern Society ◽

Spatial Theory ◽

Early Modern Japan ◽

Modern Period ◽

The People ◽

The 19Th Century

Professor Fumiko Sugimoto has been analysing the history of the 18th century and first half of the 19th century with a focus not only on the temporal axis but also on the relationships between specific spaces and the people who live and act as subjective agents in these spaces. During the past few years, she has been endeavouring to decipher the history in the period of transition from the early modern period to the modern period by introducing the perspective of oceans, with a focus on Japan. Through the study of history in terms of spatial theory that also takes oceans into consideration, she is proposing to present a new concept about the territorial formation of modern states. [Main subjects] Law and Governance in Early Modern Japan Judgement in Early Modern Society The Evolution of Control over Territory under the Tokugawa State A Human Being in the Nineteenth Century: WATANABE Kazan, a Conflicting Consciousness of Status as an Artist and as a Samurai Early Modern Maps in the Social-standing-based Order of Tokugawa Japan The World of Information in Bakumatsu Japan: Timely News and Bird's Eye Views Early Modern Political History in Terms of Spatial Theory The Emergence of Newly Defined Oceans and the Transformation of Political Culture.

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The Conquest of Memory in the Book of Joshua

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.13 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Ovidiu Creangă

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Cultural Sensitivity ◽

Spatial Theory ◽

First Century ◽

Land Acquisition ◽

Biblical Scholarship ◽

Narrative Studies ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Literary Methods ◽

Reading Approaches

This chapter tracks the shift in reading approaches to the book of Joshua, from the more traditional criticisms of source and form during the twentieth century to the “new” literary methods that have characterized the transition to the twenty-first century in biblical scholarship. The poetics stance that gradually emerged within the field of Joshua scholarship opened up the book to constructivist as well as deconstructivist readings. The narrative studies mentioned in the chapter exhibit not only remarkable literary depth, but also a strong social and cultural sensitivity that trouble the book’s colonial and androcentric outlook. Using the lens of postmodern spatial theory (“Thirdspace”), the reading of Joshua’s conquest at the end of the chapter decenters the book’s core construction of Israel’s identity around violence, land acquisition, and memorialization of the conquest. The critique “from the margin” gives way to a more compassionate “center.”

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Memory: The Means of Psychological Domination—A Study of Harold Pinter’s Old Times

English Language and Literature Studies ◽

10.5539/ells.v6n1p94 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 94

Author(s):

Xuan Zhao

Keyword(s):

Spatial Theory ◽

Power Struggle ◽

Spatial Characteristics ◽

Harold Pinter ◽

Temporal Characteristics ◽

The Past ◽

Inner World ◽

Special Quality ◽

The Moment ◽

Traditional Understanding

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, with his memory plays Harold Pinter staged his own aesthetic revolution by breaking out of the traps represented by the Comedies of Menace. Pinter, as Noël Coward said, is a genuine original and a superb craftsman. In Old Times, he drastically breaks our traditional understanding of “time” and “memory”, endowing memory with a special quality. It becomes a net which can be weaved randomly. From the perspective of spatial theory, the paper aims at analyzing the temporal characteristics and spatial characteristics of Old Times and exploring the inner world of modern people. It comes to a conclusion that characters create the past story according to their psychological or tactical needs of the moment; in other words, memory is the means of psychological domination. The play also intends to reveal something universal: the sense of crisis and loneliness. Deeley and Anna trap themselves in power struggle because they see each other as a threat to their relationship with Kate. So it suggests that each man is an island.

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