From being there to being aware: Confronting geographical and sociological imaginations of copresence
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In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 50, No. 1, 01.02.2018, p. 245-255.
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T1 - From being there to being aware
T2 - Confronting geographical and sociological imaginations of copresence
AU - Grabher, Gernot
AU - Melchior, Alice
AU - Schiemer, Benjamin
AU - Schüßler, Elke
AU - Sydow, Jörg
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - In economic geography, the notion of copresence has been at the very center of the research agenda for decades. The elaboration of the benefits of colocation and physical proximity was (and still is) a chief aim of the disciplinary project to demonstrate that “geography matters”. The geographical concern with colocation, proximity and distance, in fact, resonates with the sociological discourse on copresence. And yet, the relationship between copresence and its (distant) geographical relatives has rarely been explicated in a systematic fashion. By drawing on the seminal contributions by Goffman, Giddens and Knorr Cetina, amongst others, this account confronts the geographical conceptions of colocation, proximity and distance with sociological perceptions of copresence. By advancing from copresence as “being there” to copresence as “being aware” we seek to push beyond the prevailing physical perceptions of copresence towards a more socially constructivist understanding that accounts for the simultaneity and mutual conditioning of diverse modes of copresence and absence.
AB - In economic geography, the notion of copresence has been at the very center of the research agenda for decades. The elaboration of the benefits of colocation and physical proximity was (and still is) a chief aim of the disciplinary project to demonstrate that “geography matters”. The geographical concern with colocation, proximity and distance, in fact, resonates with the sociological discourse on copresence. And yet, the relationship between copresence and its (distant) geographical relatives has rarely been explicated in a systematic fashion. By drawing on the seminal contributions by Goffman, Giddens and Knorr Cetina, amongst others, this account confronts the geographical conceptions of colocation, proximity and distance with sociological perceptions of copresence. By advancing from copresence as “being there” to copresence as “being aware” we seek to push beyond the prevailing physical perceptions of copresence towards a more socially constructivist understanding that accounts for the simultaneity and mutual conditioning of diverse modes of copresence and absence.
KW - Management studies
KW - Colocation
KW - copresence
KW - interaction
KW - proximity
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U2 - 10.1177/0308518X17743507
DO - 10.1177/0308518X17743507
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85041817861
VL - 50
SP - 245
EP - 255
JO - Environment and Planning A
JF - Environment and Planning A
SN - 0308-518X
IS - 1
ER -