Does geography affect our sense of "self"? How are social characteristics mapped out on the ground? And is there any "authentic" sense of place now, or are we increasingly "placeless"? Concentrating on the period between the end of the Second World War and the end of the century, this Reader argues that there is a reciprocal relationship between the constitution of places and people. Bringing together an interdisciplinary collection of articles for social and cultural geographers, this Reader critically examines the argument that the close associations of the 1950s between place (the home, the community and the nation state) and the social divisions (gender, class and nationality) are breaking down in the 1990s. Drawing out the oppositional movements in each decade, it seeks to show how the supposed stability of one and the mobility of the other are exaggerated.
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...this is a selection which extends social geography by putting literary flair on display. -- Times Literary Supplement
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Linda McDowell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
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