ISBN:
9780429842191
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (783 pages)
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DDC:
304.23
Keywords:
Place (Philosophy)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contemporary concerns and debates.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: thinking about place - themes and emergent approaches -- PART I: Situating place -- Introduction: situating place -- 1. Place as assemblage -- 2. Doreen Massey's 'a global sense of place' revisited -- 3. Place and nation -- 4. Region, place, devolution: geohistory still matters -- 5. Rethinking place at the border through the LYC Museum and Art Gallery -- 6. Faith and place: Hindu sacred landscapes of India -- 7. Colonial imaginaries, colonized places -- 8. Mobilities and place -- 9. Place as human-environment network: tree planting and place-making in Massachusetts, USA -- PART II: The qualities of place -- Introduction: the qualities of place -- 10. Soundscapes -- 11. Weather and place -- 12. The luminosity of place: light, shadow, colour -- 13. Place after dark: urban peripheries as alternative futures -- 14. Waterway: a liquid place -- 15. Place-crafting at the edge of everywhere -- 16. Thinking place atmospherically -- 17. The urban Spanglish of Mexico City -- 18. Thinking, doing and being decolonisation in, with and as place -- PART III: Identity and place -- Introduction: power, identity and place -- 19. Place, age and identity -- 20. Gendering place: mobilities, borders and belonging -- 21. Choreographing place: race, encounter and co-belonging in the Anthropocene -- 22. Class and place -- 23. 'Food-work city': oral history and the contested politics of place -- 24. Rurality, place and the imagination -- 25. The symbolic construction of community through place -- 26. Fashioning place: young Muslim styling and urban belonging -- 27. Disability and place -- 28. Reading Bangkok: the transforming and intermingling city -- PART IV: Power, regulating and resisting in place.
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