"In this book, Stephan Feuchtwang and his contributors offer a set of historical, anthropological and scale-mediated studies from China - a country that includes a subcontinental variety of cultures and landscapes. In the 20th century it experienced collapse in civil war and was…
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 glo…
Drawing on the work of major researchers from around the world, this important book represents a timely and required engagement on the part of scholars of work and employment with developments in spatial theorising.
Drawing on the work of major researchers from around the world, this important book represents a timely and required engagement on the part of scholars of work and employment with developments in spatial theorising.
"This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the lingu…
Wie werden Körper gefährlich? Dieser Frage liegt die These zugrunde, dass soziale Prozesse der In- und Exklusion, der Normalisierung und Marginalisierung von Menschen und Gruppen immer auch eine körperliche Dimension haben. Das Buch verknüpft erstmals die für die Soziologie seit…
In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan. Cristina Moretti's ethnographic study r…
The book "Urban Dreams and Realities" is a collection of articles on cities in ancient cultures, both their physical and conceptual aspects. A wide range of subjects and disciplinary perspectives are represented, especially the archaeology, epigraphy and literature of the Roman …
Space inevitably plays an important role in our social lives. When talking to our neighbours, reading the newspaper, going to the gym, answering an e-mail, we all draw on our presuppositions and understanding of spatiality and temporality. This book illuminates these embedded ex…
This book successfully illuminates these embedded experiences, questioning how to understand space as a multiple, dynamic, intangible, yet present, form of knowledge. Building from a history of philosopher's and geographer's theories of space, Rob Shields convincingly presents t…
"How do pervasive digital devices - smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among others - influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices and the networks that support them become the means of making i…
