Kryzys przestrzeni czy jej renesans w badaniach geografii społeczno-ekonomicznej?
Crisis or renaissance of space in socio-economic geography studies?

Summary/Abstract: Andrzej Lisowski’s book on the concept of space in human geography published in 2003 was the canvas for reflection on the role and meaning of the concept of space in contemporary socio-economic geographical research. The dynamics of social change in the past twenty years have meant that many of the approaches of that time, being innovative and contesting the old, modernist paradigm of science, today belong to the classic ways of interpreting space in geography. The evolution of space interpretations and understandings has been illustrated on the example of the concept of place. The development and popularization of this concept may be also used as an example of the contribution of socio-economic geography to the cognitive and methodological development of other social disciplines. Ongoing changes in physical, social and economic space have been traced based on changes of public space forms and functions changes and in a macroscale, on the example of a meaning of particular, real territory in the space of global flows. The problem ofthe deformation of real space image in order to obtain its socially desirable perception and valorisation is also discussed. The problem has been historically and is currently present in social sciences.

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