ABSTRACT
At present many scholars are engaged in the broader intellectual movement which has been called the spatial turn of social and cultural theory. While it is diffi cult to make out the origin of the term, let alone of the movement indicated by it, the spatial turn arguably became popular in the discussions around books written by David Harvey and Edward W. Soja.1 In Thirdspace, to name but one, Soja explores what he calls ‘the contemporary reassertion of a critical spatial perspective and geographical imagination throughout all of the human sciences’: ‘As we approach the fi n de siècle, there is a growing awareness of the simultaneity and the interwoven complexity of the social, the historical, and the spatial, their inseparability, and interdependence.’2
