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Title Making place : space and embodiment in the city / edited by Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Indiana University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series 21st century studies
21st Century studies.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Embodied Placemaking: An Important Category of Critical Analysis; 1. Placemaking and Embodied Space; 2. Visualizing the Body Politic; 3. Inside the Magic Circle: Conjuring the Terrorist Enemy at the 2001 Group of Eight Summit; 4. Eating Ethnicity: Spatial Ethnography of Hyderabad House Restaurant on Devon Avenue, Chicago; 5. Urban Boundaries, Religious Experience, and the North West London Eruv; 6. "Art, Memory, and the City" in Bogotá: Mapa Teatro's Artistic Encounters with Inhabited Places.
7. Jewish Memory, Jewish Geography: Vienna before 1938Contributors; Index.
Summary Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated in the making and experiencing of place. The contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place, and encourages consideration of the various levels-from the personal to the planetary-at which.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Cities and towns -- Psychological aspects.
Cities and towns -- Psychological aspects.
Cities and towns -- Social aspects.
Cities and towns -- Social aspects.
Cities and towns.
Spatial behavior -- Social aspects.
Spatial behavior.
Social aspects.
Place attachment -- Social aspects.
Place attachment.
Environmental psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Sen, Arijit, 1963-
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