Introduction: Theorizing Place

Tim Cresswell

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Introduction: Theorizing Place

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Pages:: 11–31

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004333451_003

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This essay introduces the key themes that run through the remainder of the collection – place, mobility, practice, representation. It outlines the development of a place-based “sedentarist metaphysics” in cultural geography and the humanities in general in which place and roots are given vivid moral and ethical resonance over and above more mobile states of existence and forms of identity. Following this it considers the more contemporary development of a “nomadic metaphysics” in social and cultural theory which values the “routes” of the traveler and the nomad above the “roots” of place. The remainder of the essay brings together these two approaches by re-evaluating place and thinking through a “politics of mobility.” The paper ends with a consideration of the interconnections between place and practice to highlight the importance of performance and the “non-representational” for contemporary social and cultural thought.

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Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility

The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World

Series: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Online, Volume: 9 and Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, Volume: 9

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2002

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