Mosaic and tapestry: Metaphors as geographical concept generators
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ArticlePublication details: Sage, 2019.Description: Vol 43, issue 5, 2019 : (853-870 p.)Subject(s): Online resources:
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Progress in human geographySummary: This paper examines the use of the metaphorical terms ‘mosaic’ and ‘tapestry’ in conceptualizing the structure of spatial organization over more than a century of geographic thought. The duality between a mosaic-like, discrete geography and a tapestry-like, indiscrete geography is one of the fundamental paradoxes in spatial ontology; this paper explores how this duality has configured the commitments of geography and continues to play a role in the more recent debate between ‘territorial’ and ‘relational’ spatial metaphors. It argues for a reconciliation of incompatible metaphors, since the complexity of the phenomenal world exceeds resolution into any single descriptive system.
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This paper examines the use of the metaphorical terms ‘mosaic’ and ‘tapestry’ in conceptualizing the structure of spatial organization over more than a century of geographic thought. The duality between a mosaic-like, discrete geography and a tapestry-like, indiscrete geography is one of the fundamental paradoxes in spatial ontology; this paper explores how this duality has configured the commitments of geography and continues to play a role in the more recent debate between ‘territorial’ and ‘relational’ spatial metaphors. It argues for a reconciliation of incompatible metaphors, since the complexity of the phenomenal world exceeds resolution into any single descriptive system.
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