Title & Author:

Undoing place? : a geographical reader / edited by Linda McDowell.

Publication:

London ; New York : Arnold ; New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Description:

x, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Arnold readers in geography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. Homeplace." Leave it to beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriet" : American families in the 1950s / Stephanie Coontz ; Homeplace a site of resistance / Bell Hooks ; The suburban home companion : television and the neighborhood in postwar America / Lynn Spigel ; Beyond the modern home : shifting the parameters of residence / Tim Putnam -- Section 2. In place: place and community. "It's all falling apart here" : coming to terms with the future in Teeside / Huw Benyon [and others] ; Ambivalent attachments to place in London : twelve Barbadian families / John Western ; Space and power / Beatrix Campbell ; The ghosting of the inner city / Patrick Wright ; West Hollywood as symbol : the significance of place in the construction of a gay identity / Benjamin Forest -- Section 3. Out of place : escape attempts. Women in outlaw motorcycle gangs / Columbus Hopper and Johnny Moore ; Mods, rockers and turf gangs : carnivals of violence / Rob Shields ; O life unlike to ours! Go for it! New age travellers / George McKay ; Racism, black masculinity and the politics of space / Sallie Westwood ; On the road again : metaphors of travel in cultural criticism / Janet Wolff.
Section 4. No place like home : the rest in the West. "The whisper wakes, the shudder plays" : Race, Nation and Ethnic Absolution / Paul Gilroy ; Roast beef and reggae music : the passing of whiteness / Diana Jeater ; Cultural identity and diaspora / Stuart Hall ; Tradition and translation : national culture in its global context / Kevin Roberts -- Section 5. Imagined places. The "Magic of the mall" : an analysis of form, function and meaning in the contemporary retail built environment / Jon Goss ; Disney world : the power of facade/the facade of power / Sharon Zukin ; Future travel : anthropology and cultural distance in an age of virtual reality or, A past seen from a possible future / Christopher Pinney -- Section 6. Postscript : the possibility of a politics of place. The political place of locality studies / Doreen Massey ; Together in difference : transforming the logic of group political conflict / Iris Marion Young.

Summary:

Bringing together an interdisciplinary collection of articles for social and cultural geographers, this reader critically examines the argument that the 1950s relationships between place and social division are breaking down in the 1990s.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0340677465 (pbk.)
9780340677469 (pbk.)
047023640X (Wiley pbk.)
9780470236406 (Wiley pbk.)
0340677473 (hb)
9780340677476 (hb)
0470236396 (Wiley hb)
9780470236390 (Wiley hb)

Subject:

Human geography.
Urban geography.
Géographie humaine.
Géographie urbaine.
human geography.
Sociale geografie.
Sociogeografia.
sociale geografie
social geography
cultuur
culture
geografie
geography
filosofie
philosophy
tijd
time
ruimte
space
voorzieningen
facilities
locatie
location
Social Geography

Added entries:

McDowell, Linda, 1949-
Arnold readers in geography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201981
Call No.: GF43 .U5 1997
Status: Available