ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests an adaptive analytical framework focused on a process by which spatial configurations are constituted: spatial formations, spatial dynamics, spatial perceptions, and spatial practices and uses of space. Spaces are social objects characterized by at least one spatial dimension. These dimensions are not simply limited to the physical or geographical level but can also be conceived, constructed, or socially arranged or ordered. The usual form of historical narrative, that is, the story, is not always suitable for representing spatiotemporal transformations. A classical architectural history can be given a spatial turn, or literary scholarship can examine not only places or spatial ideas in fictional texts but also the places of literary production. Yet even with all of the methodological gains that historical analyses can glean from the reception of theories and methods in the social sciences, the discipline of history should first more intensely consider historical concepts of space.
