Place

Tim Cresswell is Professor of History and International Affairs at Northeastern University, Boston. His books include Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)and On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (2006). He has also co-edited four collections, including Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects (with Peter Merriman, 2012).

• List of Figures ixAcknowledgments xForeword xi1 Introduction: Defining Place 1Space and Place 15Place and Landscape 17Place as a Way of Understanding 18The Remainder of the Book 182 The Genealogy of Place 23The Emergence of Place in Western Thought 25Describing Places in Regional Geography 30Discovering Place: Humanistic Geography 33Place as Home? 39Radical Human Geography and the Politics of Place 41Place as “Being-in-the-World” versus Place as Social Construct 46Assembling Place 51Conclusions: Versions of Place 543 Place in a Mobile World 62Place, Practice, and Process 62Place, Openness, and Change 71The End of Place? 75Place, Identity, and Mobility 81Conclusion 844 Reading “A Global Sense of Place” 88Historical Context 88Harvey on Place 90“A Global Sense of Place” 98Beyond Reactionary and Progressive Senses of Place 109Conclusions 1135 Working with Place – Creating Places 115Creating Place in a Mobile World 116Place and Memory 119Place and Architecture 128A Nice Place to Live 135Regions and Nations as Places 141Digital Place 144Place and Art 150Conclusions 1606 Working with Place – Anachorism 165Sexuality Out-of-Place 167The Homeless – People without Place 173Animals Out-of-Place 186Conclusions 1907 Place Resources 194Key Books on Place 194Introductory Texts on Place 203Key Papers on Place 203Other Books and Papers on Place 204Key Journals 209Web Resources 211Student Projects and Essays 212Index 217