1: Temporality and Spatiality

In order to clarify the possible meanings of concepts used frequently in daily life, such as temporality and time, it is necessary to establish a thorough distinction between both of them, which is vital to comprehending a study on temporalities and development.¹ These notions have been indistinctly used in western thinking since the sixteenth century, a period wherein there was a rise in philosophical and scientific works which focused on the problems of their definitions and implications in the understanding of the phenomenon of time (Kant, 1996; Newton, 2004). I begin with the definitions built according to the bibliographical overview, which structure the semantic axis of the book, perspective from which other definitions and their theoretical backgrounds are evaluated.