This course explores the many forms space and time take as produced, organized, experienced, lived, designed, conceptualized and contested by societies and cultures. Topics include how space is harnessed for social classifications; how houses forms are conceptually structured vs. practically inhabited; time as structure or history; how societies remember; how travel writing creates utopias, sacred landscapes, pilgrimage, and tourist destinations; the industrialization of space and time; time as distance; the politics of place.
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