APPROACHES TO PHILOSOPHY OF SPACE IN GEOGRAPHY

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The spatial turn experienced in geography or more broadly in the social sciences in the 1990s continues to affect the mentioned sciences today. This effect is inherently more pronounced in geographical discipline. While trying to explain the events, phenomena and experiences or briefly all human practices in the social world, spatial dimension has been taken into account as it was not done in a considerate manner before. Especially for geographers, understanding, explaining and interpreting the physical and social space consists of one of the main agenda topics. If we define this situation as one of the existential aims for geographers, we may not consider to exaggerate it. If claimed otherwise, so it may be raised a question like this one: So why do geographers and geographers exist? Why should they continue to exist? It would be almost impossible to answer this vital question. A broad perspective is needed in the theory of space due to the predominance of abstract thought, the multidimensionality of the space and having different meanings. Therefore, to expand our perspective and to be more explanatory with the help of the related literature, certain concepts are used. We tried to put these concepts into the practice of spatial thinking. In order to make the examples. The other, metageography, intersectionality and liminal space interpreted from a relational framework while not adopting an approach such that space might be fully known and analysed, considering the space as in a state of constantly transforming, changing, being produced and reproduced.

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Space , Relationality , Metageography , Intersectionality , Liminal Space

International Journal of Geography and Geography Education

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International Journal of Geography and Geography Education