ABSTRACT
In the past many geographers argued that the aim of geography was to study space. Today most geographers argue that the aim of geography is to analyse the significance of space for social processes. Either way, the evocation of ‘space’ is crucial in justifying and differentiating our subject. Now if this line of reasoning is a legitimate one, ‘space’ has to be both an object of research and a meaningful constituent of ‘social processes’, and processes can only be social if they involve human action at some point.
