ABSTRACT
This book provides the societal context of the biography of Torsten Hägerstrand, the originator of time-geographic thinking. Hägerstrand gained theoretical insights from his reflections over the principal meaning of empirical data in studies about individuals’ lives and moves in a wider historic, social and geographical context. The book gives the ontological grounds of the approach and its concepts for analyzing processes in the time-space, and demonstrates the time-geographic notation system as an abstract means to visualize the inevitable couplings between individuals moving in the time-space. The notation helps in identifying and gaining a deeper understanding of the qualities and meanings behind these complex time-space couplings. The book gives examples of fields where the general time-geographic approach is applied and developed.
