How can the modalities and whereabouts of power - and specifically the spatio-temporal contingencies and reach of power relations - be more effectively studied? This paper shows how issues of validity and reflexivity restrict existing empirical work's ability to advance understandings of power,...

The perspective set out by Rutten in his paper contributes to a growing body of work that places individuals, their social context and practice at the fore in analyses of the spatiality of knowledge (see also for instance Howells, 2012; Ibert, 2007, 2010; Vallance, 2011). Indeed, the distinction made...