1st Edition

Spatializing Culture The Ethnography of Space and Place

By Setha Low Copyright 2017
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low... Read more

1.  Introduction:  The Importance of and Approaches to the Ethnography of Space and Place

2.  Genealogies:  The Concepts of Space and Place

3.  The Social Production of Space

4.  The Social Construction of Space

5.  Embodied Space

6.  Language, Discourse and Space

7.  Emotion, Affect and Space

8  Translocal Space.

9.  Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Setha Low is Professor of Anthropology, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Geography), Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. She is former President of the American Anthropological Association and served as Deputy Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations.