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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Portland, Or. :
UCL ; Cavendish,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781135393564 1135393567 1135393559 9781135393557 1282379224 9781282379220 9786612379222 6612379227 |