The power of place : bringing together geographical and sociological imaginations

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The power of place : bringing together geographical and sociological imaginations

edited by John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan

(Routledge library editions, . Social and cultural geography ; v. 1)

Routledge, 2014, c1989

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ISBN for subseries "Social and cultural geography": 9780415834476

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1989

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological 'imaginations'. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifying them and the links between them. The sociological imagination aspires to explanation of human activities in terms of abstract social processes. The chapters in this book focus on both the intellectual histories of the concept of place and on its empirical uses. They show that place is as important for understanding contemporary America as it is for 18th-century Sri Lanka. They also show how the concept can provide insight into 'old' problems such as the nature of social life in Renaissance Florence and Venice. The editors are leading exponents of the view of place as a concept that can 'mediate' the geographical and sociological imaginations.

目次

1. Introduction 2. The Devaluation of Place in Social Science 3. Place, Region and Modernity J4. Modernism, post-modernism and the struggle for place 5. Home and Class Among an American Landed Elite 6. Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence 7. Power and Place in the Venetian Territories 8. Place, Meaning and Discourse in French Language Geography 9. Place and Culture: Two Disciplines, Two Concepts, Two Images of Christ and a Single Goal 10. The Language and Significance of Place in Latin America 11. The Power of Place in Kandy, Sri Lanka: 1780-1980 12. Beijing and the Power of Place in Modern China .

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB14509459
  • ISBN
    • 9780415733205
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    231 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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