Time geography
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Time geography or time-space geography traces its roots back to the Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand who stressed the temporal factor in the spatial human activities. The time-space path, devised by Hägerstrand, shows the movement of an individual in the spatial-temporal environment with the constraints placed on the individual by these two factors. Three categories of constraints were identified by Hägerstrand:
- Authority (limits of accessibility to certain places or domains placed on individuals by for example authorities),
- capability (limitations of movement by individuals. For example, movement is restricted by biological factors, the need for food, drink and sleep.) and
- coupling (for how long an individual must interact with other individuals in order to finish a task).
The methods associated with time geography have been criticised by a number of postmodern and feminist geographers.
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| Sub-Fields | Cultural geography · Development geography · Economic geography · Historical geography · Language geography · Marketing geography · Health geography · Military geography · Political geography · Population geography · Social geography · Strategic geography · Time geography · Urban geography |
| Approaches | Behavioral geography · Cultural Theory · Feminist geography · Marxism · Modernism (Structuralism · Semiotics) · Postmodernism (Post-structuralism · Deconstruction) |
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