ABSTRACT
A prominent feature of critical social theory today is a radical rethinking and reinterpretation of geographic space and historical time, and again it is not a matter of tacking on geography to social theory, or social theory to geography. The renewed connections represent a two-way street: the thinking of social theorists like Anthony Giddens infuse geography with a heightened sense of awareness, but the geographic insistence that all social action is played out in space as well as in time is infusing, informing and enriching social theory in turn. As Allen Pred has pointed out, it is no accident that social theorists have seen in the paths, bundles and projects of Torsten Hgerstrand's space-time dancers the crucial importance of the organization, patterning and structure of geographic space, the stage upon which all the players undertake their always constrained movements.
