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The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography): Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations book cover

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The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography) Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations

Edited By John Agnew, James Duncan Copyright 1989
248 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned... Read more

1. Introduction John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan 2. The Devaluation of Place in Social Science John A. Agnew 3. Place, Region and Modernity J. Nicholas Entrikin 4. Modernism, post-modernism and the struggle for place David Ley 5. Home and Class Among an American Landed Elite Peter J. Hugill 6. Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence Edward Muir & Ronald F. E . Weissman 7. Power and Place in the Venetian Territories Denis Cosgrove 8. Place, Meaning and Discourse in French Language Geography Vincent Berdoulay 9. Place and Culture: Two Disciplines, Two Concepts, Two Images of Christ and a Single Goal Miles Richardson 10. The Language and Significance of Place in Latin America David Robinson 11. The Power of Place in Kandy, Sri Lanka: 1780-1980 James S. Duncan 12. Beijing and the Power of Place in Modern China Marwyn S. Samuels & Carmencita Samuels.

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