The aim of this article is to show how a Ricœurian approach space and place likely raise issues about geography even cartography, rather than just ontological topology in Heideggerian fashion. Two steps will lead towards that conclusion: the first concerns role Ricœur’s long détour transition from transcendental—therefore empty—notion concrete plurality places, which turns them into matters for...

Metrics of success, status, and justice are founded on subjective narratives spatialized pasts futures. This article considers three moralised space-times – chronotopes their relations to people’s mobility within from sub-Saharan Africa. The first stems European efforts promote ‘development at home’ which places Africans a separate temporal trajectory. By discursively positioning outside global...

A common topic in CSCW is the fit between an information system and the people whose activity it is intended to support. The static and objectifying abstractions at the heart of mainstream information systems are often contrasted with idealized concepts such as the 'common information space' where there is fluid adaptation to suit each user, community and context. While such discussion is commo...

How can human agency be reconciled with bio-physical determinism? Starting with a discussion of the long standing debate between determinism and agency, we argue that the seeds of a reconciliation can be found in George Herbert Mead's ideas concerning social acts, perspectives, differentiation, self-other interactivity, and conscious understanding. Drawing on more recent reformulations of Mead'...