ABSTRACT
Each of the interpretive accounts is a tale of local transformation and thereby in some manner a tale of the time-space specific interplay of practices, power relations, and forms of consciousness. Each of these accounts is a tale of unfolding historical geographies that is inseparable from the simultaneous unfolding of social processes of varying temporal depth and spatial extent. Each of these accounts involved a tale in which human agents unintentionally and intentionally made histories and constructed human geographies not under circumstances of their own choosing but in the context of already existing, directly encountered social and spatial relations. The granting of equal ontological status to the spatial and the temporal, to the construction of human geographies and the making of histories, is called for not only in the critical interpretation of past social phenomena.
