Making place : space and embodiment in the city / edited by Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman.
Contributor(s): Sen, Arijit | Silverman, Lisa.
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BookSeries: 21st century studies.Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]Description: viii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780253011435 (pb : alk. paper); 9780253011428 (cl : alk. paper).Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Psychological aspects | Cities and towns -- Social aspects | Spatial behavior -- Social aspects | Place attachment -- Social aspects | Environmental psychologyDDC classification: 307.76 Online resources: Publisher Description Summary: Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated in the making and experiencing of place. The contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place, and encourages consideration of the various levels―from the personal to the planetary―at which spatial change occurs. The book's case studies come from Costa Rica, Colombia, India, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated in the making and experiencing of place. The contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place, and encourages consideration of the various levels―from the personal to the planetary―at which spatial change occurs. The book's case studies come from Costa Rica, Colombia, India, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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