Time–space compression – refers to the annihilation of space through
time that lies at the core of capitalism (Harvey, 1989). Concepts of
convergence and distanciation do not offer an explanation for why social
relations are stretched across space. Geographer David Harvey, in The
Condition of Postmodernity (1989), provided an argument which has
been of central influence in the way geographers think about the
relationship between time–space and globalization. He suggests:
that we have been experiencing, these last two decades, an intense phase
of time–space compression that has had a disorienting and disruptive
impact upon political-economic practices, the balance of class power,
as well as upon social and cultural life.
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