Spencer, 2010: Mapping Society, a Sense of Space in Spencer, S. (2010). Visual research methods in the social sciences: Awakening visions. New York, NY: Routledge
“Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space criticised much modern theory for taking space as a given rather than a highly problematic and undertheorised concept, a concept in need of its own science which might distinguish between and examine its different forms: mental, physical and social.” p.70
Understanding space and sense of place brings together philosophical concepts of production and dialectical change (Hegel, Marx and Nietzche) p. 70
While the mechanics of vision have a biological and physiological basis, the way in which we ‘see’ the world is culturally ascribed, learnt, a process of recognising and separating pre-determined categories and meanings from the visual array before us. p. 71