The Routledge Handbook of Place
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Book Description
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.
Table of Contents
Part I Situating Place
1. Place as Assemblage
Kim Dovey
2. Doreen Massey’s ‘A Global Sense of Place’ revisited
Ares Kalandides
3. Place and Nation
Rhys Jones
4. Region, Place, Devolution: Geohistory Still Matters
David Beel and Martin Jones
5. Rethinking Place at the Border through the LYC Museum and Art Gallery
Ysanne Holt
6. Faith and Place: Hindu Sacred Landscapes of India
Rana P.B. Singh and Pravin S. Rana
7. Colonial Imaginaries, Colonized Places
Uma Kothari
8. Mobilities and Place
David Bissell
9. Place as Human-Environment Network: Tree Planting and Place Making in Massachusetts
Deborah Martin
Part II The Qualities of Place
10. Soundscapes of Place
Michelle Duffy
11. Weather and Place
Phillip Vannini and Bradley Austin
12. The Luminosity of Place: Light, Shadow, Colour
Tim Edensor
13. Place After Dark: Urban Peripheries as Alternative Futures
Nick Dunn
14. Waterway: A Liquid Place
Maarja Kaaristo
15. Place-Crafting at the Edge of Everywhere
David Paton
16. Thinking Place Atmospherically
Shanti Sumartojo
17. The Urban Spanglish of Mexico City
Cristina Garduño Freeman, Beau B. Beza and Glenda Mejía
18. Thinking, Doing and Being Decolonisation in, with and as Place
Sarah Wright
Part III Identity and Place
19. Place, Age and Identity
Samantha Wilkinson and Catherine Wilkinson
20. Gendering Place: Mobilities, Borders and Belonging
Dina Viaou
21. Choreographing Place: Race, Encounter and Co-belonging in the Anthropocene
Michele Lobo
22. Class and Place
Paul Watt
23.'Food-Work City': Oral History and the Contested Politics of Place
Ben Rogaly
24. Rurality, Place and the Imagination
Rosemary Shirley
25. The Symbolic Construction of Community through Place
Henrik Schultze
26. Fashioning Place: Young Muslim Styling and Urban Belonging
Saskia Warren
27. Disability and Place
Ilan Wiesel and Ellen van Holstein
28. Reading Bangkok: The Transforming and Intermingling City
Cuttaleeya Jiraprasertkun
Part IV Power, Regulating and Resisting in Place
29. Managing Places
Nikos Ntounis, Dominic Medway and Catherine Parker
30. Risk, Resilience and Place
Paul O’Hare and Iain White
31. Mapping Place
Chris Perkins
32. Of Place and Law
Jenny Kanellopoulou
33. Militarisation and the Creation of Place
Rachel Woodward
34. Policing Place
Jon Coaffee
35. A Passion for Place and Participation
Quintin Bradley
36. Experimental Places and Spatial Politics
Alex Vasudevan
37. Monumentalizing Public Art through Memory of Place: Place-based Interpretation and Commemorability
Hélène B. Ducros
38. Place and Heritage Conservation
James Lesh
Part V Displacement, Loss and Emplacement
39. Temporary Places: Moving People and Changing Spaces
Ali Madanipour
40. The Place of the Camp in Protracted Displacement
Cathrine Brun
41. Remaking a Place Called Home Following Displacement
Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia
42. Homelessness and Place
Alison Young and James Petty
43. Clutter and Place
Tracey Potts
44. Nonhuman Place
Catherine Phillips and Sarah Robertson
45. Place Attachment
Patrick Devine-Wright
46. In the Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Cultural Significance of Abandoned Places
Justin Armstrong
Part VI Economic Geographies of Place
47. Place and Economic Development
Costis Hadjimichalis
48. Place and Uneven Development
Ray Hudson
49. Place-making at Work: The Role of Rhythm in the Production of 'Thick' Places
Dawn Lyon
50. Alternative Economies and Places
Bastian Lange
51. Consuming Places
Mark Jayne
52. Memory and Forgetting in City Marketing: (Re)writing the History of Urban Place?
Gary Warnaby and Dominic Medway
53. Making New Places: The Role of Events in Master-Planned Communities
Judith Mair
54. Place as Commodity: Informal Settlements’ Contribution to Tourism in Bogotá and Medellin
Jaime Hernández-Garcia and Beau B. Beza
Part VII Creative Engagements with Place
55. The Art of Placemaking: A Typology of Art Practices in Placemaking
Cara Courage
56. Contemporary British Place Writing: Towards a Definition
David Cooper
57. Writing a Place: Poetry and ‘Ghost Rhetoric’
Helen Mort
58. Navigating Cinematic Geographies: Reflections on Film as Spatial Practice
Les Roberts
59. Practices of Home Beyond Place Attachment
Veronica Vickery
60. Place-Walking: The Umwelt Explored through Creative Imagination
Mike Collier
61. Walking West: Newer Volcanics Song Project
Marita Dyson
62. Place and Music: Composing Concrete Antennae
Rob St. John
63. Of all Places… Drama and Place
Mike Pearson
Editor(s)
Biography
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.