Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies

ISBN 10: 0816637563 ISBN 13: 9780816637560

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2001

Riassunto

A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works.The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0816637563
• ISBN 13: 9780816637560
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero di pagine: 461
• Redattore: Adams Paul C., Hoelscher Steven D., Till Karen E.
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