The question of the social production of space and time has received
sustained attention in the social sciences and humanities in recent years.While space has been produced through the division of the world into
functional spaces (the processes of mapping and geometry, the classifi -
cation of space as property, and the delineations of planners), time has
become regulated and standardized as clock time, as the time of the timetable
and the daily schedule. Both time and space, it has been argued,
have been taken out of the world of nature and immediate experience and
placed, instead, in the world of abstraction—abstraction ruled, for the
most part, by the demands of trade and capital, but also by various forms
of patriarchy, colonialism, and imperialism.