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Locating Zhuhai Between Land and Sea: A Relational Production of Zhuhai, China, as an Island City
Island Studies Journal, 2017 Despite an abundance of representations that focalize Zhuhai’s island and coastal features in both academic and popular discourses, serious engagement with the lived sociogeographic realities of the ‘city of a hundred islands’ are few and far between. As
Gang Hong
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The Spatial Representation of Angles
Perception, 2016 We investigated whether angle magnitude, similarly to numerical quantities (i.e., the spatial-numerical association of response codes effect), is associated to the side of response execution. In addition, we investigated whether this association has the properties of a spatially oriented mental line, since angles are taught in a right-to-left ...
FUMAROLA, ANTONIA +5 more
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Post-urbanism and cold: geo-cultural images and representations of cultural landscapes of the Northern and Arctic cities [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2020 The purpose of this article is to show the specifics of the formation of cultural landscapes and geo-cultural images of Northern and Arctic cities within the concept of post-urbanism.
Zamyatin D.N.
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SPACE, TIME AND MOTION - PARADIGM SHIFTS
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2017 The paper shows the influence of physical concepts of space, time and motion on psycho-logical research of perception. The data of the experimental study of the formation of the concepts of time and speed, conducted by J.
V I Panov
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Epitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Travelogues
Multicultural Shakespeare, 2022 This essay examines the kaleidoscopic and abridged perspectives on three early modern principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania), whose lands are now part of modern-day Romania.
Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
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Cose, rappresentazioni, pratiche: uno sguardo sull’ontologia ibrida della Geografia
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2018 This article explores the ontology of geography. The main characteristic of this ontology is to be a hybrid, because the entities that inhabit it – that is things, representations and practices – are heterogeneous and irreducible to a common root.
Marcello Tanca
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Exploring the Structure of Spatial Representations
PLOS ONE, 2016 It has been suggested that the map-like representations that support human spatial memory are fragmented into sub-maps with local reference frames, rather than being unitary and global. However, the principles underlying the structure of these 'cognitive maps' are not well understood.
Madl, Tamas +4 more
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Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s "Concrete Island"
Text Matters, 2019 This article explores the way in which surrealist techniques and assumptions underpin spatial representations in Ballard’s Concrete Island. With much of Ballard’s fiction using spatiality as an ideologically charged instrument to articulate a critique ...
Marcin Tereszewski
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Qualitative Spatial Representation for the Humanities [PDF]
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 2019 ‘Qualitative spatial reasoning and representation’ is a range of techniques developed in Artificial Intelligence to meet the need for a computational treatment of qualitative spatial relations. Examples of such relations include ‘next to’, ‘overlapping’, ‘to the left of’, ‘separate from’, ‘including’, and so on.
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Être supporter à Saint-Étienne
Géographie et Cultures, 2017 This article is about the geography of fandom in the Saint-Etienne football club, in and especially around the stadium, questioning the importance of this fandom in the representations of the city in their cultural and sociological references (myth of a ...
Stéphane Merle
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