Making place state projects, globalisation and local responses in China
To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the cre...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Portland, Or. :
UCL ; Cavendish
2004.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798111806719 |
| Sumario: | To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the creation of a place is not legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative than can be predicted by translating large-scale processes into local cultures.Anthropologists have been sensitive to the intimate, tragic and lyrical senses of local place. But their theorising has |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135393557 9781282379220 9786612379222 9781135393564 9781843147671 |
