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Theorising place

Feuchtwang, Stephan (2004) Theorising place. In: Feuchtwang, Stephan, (ed.) Making Place: State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China. UCL Press, London, pp. 3-33. ISBN 9781844720101

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Abstract

To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the creation of a place is not legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative than can be predicted by translating large-scale processes into local cultures. Anthropologists have been sensitive to the intimate, tragic and lyrical senses of local place. But their theorising has been too much bound up with cosmology and insufficiently with the intermediate scales of state and local state. In this book, Stephan Feuchtwang and his contributors offer a set of historical, anthropological and scale-mediated studies from China

Item Type: Book Section
Official URL: http://www.routledge.com/1844720101
Additional Information: © 2004 UCL Press
Divisions: Anthropology
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2008 09:57
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 09:08
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/21302

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