Place and Space in Contemporary Europe

Some Lessons and Reflections

Bibliographic Data

ID10961981
AuthorsHuw Beynon (University of Manchester, corresponding author), Ray Hudson (0000-0001-6896-973X, Durham University)
Year1993
Volume25
Issue3
Pages177-190
Publication date1993-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntipode (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8330.1993.tb00453.x
OpenAlexW1974162553
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited15

The “localities debate,” stimulated by the Economic and Social Research Council's “Changing Urban and Regional Systems” initiative, was conducted in the pages of Antipode and Society and Space at a length that showed scant regard for emerging environmental sensitivities. Much of it involved politically contentious claims and increasingly exhausted theory; it resolved very little and in that sense was little more than a storm in a pretty familiar pudding basin. A later flirtation with postmodernism simply pushed aside questions of explanation while raising the political stakes as celebration of the differences between places became the order of the day. Nonetheless, important issues emerge from or relate to that debate, and we draw on our experiences to comment on three of them: (i) agents, structures, the production of space and the material bases of place: some issues of theory; (ii) the production of places, people's attachment to place, and place‐based political strategies: some issues of practice; (iii) localities, postmodernism and the difference that place makes: is the regressive turn to postmodernism as approach avoidable

Aesthetics · Aside · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Raising (metalworking · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Law · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning

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