Place : an introduction / Tim Cresswell.

Author
Cresswell, Tim [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition.
Published/​Created
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley, Blackwell, [2015]
Description
xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780470655627 ((pbk.))
    • 0470655623 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2014018394
    OCLC
    882463632
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