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.
The volume moves away from purely western-based conceptions and discussions about place to include perspectives from across the world. It includes an introductory chapter, which outlines key definitions, draws out influential historical and contemporary approaches to the theorisation of place and sketches out the structure of the book, explaining the logic of the seven clearly themed sections. Each section begins with a short introductory essay that provides identifying key ideas and contextualises the essays that follow. The original and distinctive contributions from both new and leading authorities from across the discipline provide a wide, rich and comprehensive collection that chimes with current critical thinking in geography. The book captures the dynamism and multiplicity of current geographical thinking about place by including both state-of-the-art, in-depth, critical overviews of theoretical approaches to place and new explorations and cases that chart a framework for future research. It charts the multiple ways in which place might be conceived, situated and practised.
This unique, comprehensive and rich collection will be an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate teaching, for experienced academics across a wide range of disciplines and for policymakers and place-marketers. It will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines, such as Geography, Sociology and Politics, and interdisciplinary fields such as Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and Planning.
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.
1. Place as Assemblage
2. Doreen Masseys 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
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
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
29. Managing Places
30. Risk, Resilience
and Place
31. Mapping Place
32. Of Place and Law
33. Militarisation and the
Creation of Place
34. Policing Place
35. A Passion for Place and
Participation
36. Experimental Places and Spatial Politics
37.
Monumentalizing Public Art through Memory of Place: Place-based
Interpretation and Commemorability
38. Place and Heritage Conservation
39.
Temporary Places: Moving People and Changing Spaces
40. The Place of the Camp
in Protracted Displacement
41. Remaking a Place Called Home Following
Displacement
42. Homelessness and Place
43. Clutter and Place
44. Non-human
Place
45. Place Attachment
46. In the Presence of Absence: Meditations on the
Cultural Significance of Abandoned Places
47. Place and Economic Development
48. Place and Uneven Development
49. Place-making at Work: The Role of Rhythm
in the Production of 'Thick' Places
50. Alternative Economies and Places
51.
Consuming Places
52. Memory and Forgetting in City Marketing: (Re)writing the
History of Urban Place?
53. Making New Places: The Role of Events in
Master-Planned Communities
54. Place as Commodity: Informal Settlements
Contribution to Tourism in Bogotį and Medellin
55. The Art of Placemaking: A
Typology of Art Practices in Placemaking
56. Contemporary British Place
Writing: Towards a Definition
57. Writing a Place: Poetry and Ghost
Rhetoric
58. Navigating Cinematic Geographies: Reflections on Film as
Spatial Practice
59. Practices of Home Beyond Place Attachment
60.
Place-Walking: The Umwelt Explored through Creative Imagination
61. Walking
West: Newer Volcanics Song Project
62. Place and Music: Composing Concrete
Antennae
63. Of all Places Drama and Place
Tim Edensor is Professor of Human Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and a Principal Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Ares Kalandides is a practicing urban and regional planner based in Berlin, Germany, and Athens, Greece. He is Professor of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Director of the Institute of Place Management.
Uma Kothari is Professor of Migration and Postcolonial Studies, University of Manchester, UK, and Professor of Human Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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