Cultural space: in search of the new epistomologies

Abstract

This paper explores and discusses the experimental, critical and self-reflexive changes in the fields of cultural spaces research such as cultural studies, cultural geography and urban studies. It seeks to contribute to current debates on space in the context of epistemological crisis in cultural studies and contemporary urban theory. The key thesis are: 1) Science explores and performs cultural spaces; 2) Cultural studies develop spatial turn, topographical turn and geographical turn; 3) Spatial turn activates trick questions in trans-field research; 4) Urbanisation is a planetary practice of culturalisation. Based on a review of epistemological search on urban space, this article considers how researches have attempted to situate knowledge by suggesting different concepts of space and of the urban. It is note that these concepts often struggle to provide meaningful estimates of important factors of urbanisation. This implies that whilst the study of cultural space remains difficult, epistemologies and methodologies of cultural urban studies can be infiltrate by set at variannce disciplines.