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Place : an introduction / Tim Cresswell.
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Cresswell, Tim
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English
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Second edition.
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley, Blackwell, [2015]
Description
xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
GF50 .C74 2015
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Human geography
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Summary note
Place is one of the most fundamental concepts in human geography as well as the broad field of the humanities and social sciences. This highly successful short introduction provides a fundamental overview for students, combining discussion about everyday uses of the term with the more complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it. Now in its second edition, the text has been significantly revised and updated while preserving its valuable brevity. Place traces the development of the concept from its origins in Greek philosophy through the work of humanistic geographers in the 1970s to its subsequent appropriation by cultural geographers, and the linking of place to politics. It makes these debates accessible to students by drawing on global examples from the news, popular culture, and everyday life as a way of explaining more abstract ideas. The second edition retains discussion of classic issues and debates, but it has been developed to reflect recent issues and research, and to ensure its continued relevance. The new edition also includes additional sections on the use of place in non-geographical arenas, such as ecological theory, art theory and practice, philosophy, and social theory. -- ‡c From publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: Defining Place. Space and Place
Place and Landscape
Place as a Way of Understanding
The Remainder of the Book
2. The Genealogy of Place. The Emergence of Place in Western Thought
Describing Places in Regional Geography
Discovering Place: Humanistic Geography
Place as Home?
Radical Human Geography and the Politics of Place
Place as "Being-in-the-World" versus Place as Social Construct
Assembling Place
Conclusions: Versions of Place
3. Place in a Mobile World. Place, Practice, and Process
Place, Openness, and Change
The End of Place?
Place, Identity, and Mobility
Conclusion
4. Reading "A Global Sense of Place". Historical Context
Harvey on Place
"A Global Sense of Place"
Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place
Conclusions
5. Working with Place
Creating Places. Creating Place in a Mobile World
Place and Memory
Place and Architecture
A Nice Place to Live
Regions and Nations as Places
Digital Place
Place and Art
6. Working with Place
Anachorism. Sexuality Out-of-Place
The Homeless
People without Place
Animals Out-of-Place
7. Place Resources. Key Books on Place
Introductory Texts on Place
Key Papers on Place
Other Books and Papers on Place
Key Journals
Web Resources
Student Projects and Essays.
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ISBN
9780470655627 ((pbk.))
0470655623 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2014018394
OCLC
882463632
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