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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453539603321

Titolo

Making place : space and embodiment in the city / / edited by Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01143-4

0-253-01149-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

21st Century studies

Altri autori (Persone)

SenArijit <1963->

SilvermanLisa

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Psychological aspects

Cities and towns - Social aspects

Spatial behavior - Social aspects

Place attachment - Social aspects

Environmental psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Embodied Placemaking: An Important Category of Critical Analysis; 1. Placemaking and Embodied Space; 2. Visualizing the Body Politic; 3. Inside the Magic Circle: Conjuring the Terrorist Enemy at the 2001 Group of Eight Summit; 4. Eating Ethnicity: Spatial Ethnography of Hyderabad House Restaurant on Devon Avenue, Chicago; 5. Urban Boundaries, Religious Experience, and the North West London Eruv; 6. "Art, Memory, and the City" in Bogotá: Mapa Teatro's Artistic Encounters with Inhabited Places

7. Jewish Memory, Jewish Geography: Vienna before 1938Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 whi