Introduction

Theorizing Place

Bibliographic Data

ID20064501
AuthorsTim Cresswell (0000-0002-9450-9339, corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages11-31
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMobilizing Place, Placing Mobility (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004333451_003
OpenAlexW2490468578
ISBN9789004333451
LanguageEN
Citations received54

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

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Political science · Politics · Remainder · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Travel Writing and Literature

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