“NEW” TIME-GEOGRAPHY: A REVIEW OF RECENT PROGRESSES OF TIMEGEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCHES FROM KAJSA ELLEGÅRD IN SWEDEN
ZHANG Yan1, CHAI Yan-wei2
1. Institute of Beijing Studies, Beijing Union University, Beijing 100101, China;
2. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract：Recent progresses of time-geographical researches from Kajsa Ellegård and her team in Sweden could represented the new development of time-geography approach during the last three decades. Kajsa Ellegård fully developed both the conceptual framework and the notation system of time-geography, which turn on the age of "new"time-geography.Firstly, this paper briefly summarized the theoretical development of time-geography. Secondly, we put forward that "new" time-geography approach shifted from "out-of-home" to "in-home" behavior, from the emphasis on "spatial behavior" with large-scale spatial movements such as migration and commuting to the emphasis on "behavior in space and time" which were deeply influenced by social structure and institutional transformation. Thirdly, in terms of theoretical perspective, "new"time-geography approach has been experiencing shift from "absolute space-time" to "relative spacetime". In the view of "absolute space-time", individual path was treated as a movement or trajectory from one place to another and along the clock time. In contrast, based on the"relative space-time" view, Kajsa and her group firstly create a project-oriented activity categories and coding system as well as visualization tools of complexity context of individual paths, and build up new notation systems for identifying basic events and the formation of pockets of local order. Finally, we argued that "new" time-geography approach started to pay special attentions to feedback mechanism and dynamics process of "projects-path" dialect.
