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Making place : state projects, globalisation and local responses in China /

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 global. However, the cre...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Feuchtwang, Stephan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Portland, Or. : UCL ; Cavendish, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 global. However, the creation of a place is not legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative than can be predicted by translating large-scale processes into local cultures. Anthropologists have been sensitive to the intimate, tragic and lyrical senses of local place. But their theorising has.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781135393564
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