Published : 2022-12-31

Space or place?

On the importance of categories in biographical research

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The content of the article concerns the relationship between space and place and the importance of the category of place in biographical research. A special value, strengthening the specificity of biographical research, has been attributed to the category of place, as a concept referring to "humanized space", which people try to get to know, understand and give it personal, but also social meaning. At the same time, the author considers experiencing a place to be the basic existential relationship of a human being. The considerations contained in the article refer to the phenomenology of space, i.e. the fact that space is experienced directly in life, and to the hermeneutics of space (including the hermeneutics of place).

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biographical research, place, space, spatial turn



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Wróbel, A. (2022). Space or place? On the importance of categories in biographical research. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna, 7(2), 45–56. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2022.07.39

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1