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History, it is routinely assumed, belongs primarily to time and the temporal. Yet although routine, the assumption is nevertheless mistaken. It is place or topos, which encompasses both time and space (and that is intimately tied to the notion of bound or limit), that is primary here, and so history has to be understood as determined topologically, and not merely temporally. The exploration and elaboration of this claim involves rethinking the ideas of time, space, and place as well as of language and narrative. History appears in its adventual character, but its adventuality is itself seen as a happening of place.
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Australian Research Council
History
Publication title
History and TheoryVolume
58Pagination
3-22ISSN
0018-2656Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Blackwell PublishersPlace of publication
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Copyright © 2019 John Wiley & Sons This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Malpas, J., Topologies of history, History and theory, 58(1), 3-22, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12097 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.Repository Status
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