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Grounding theories of place and globalisation
In the 1990s, under the perception of increasing transformations brought about
by globalization, scholars started investigating what happened to the notion of place.
Among others, the views of Manuel Castells, Robert Sack, and Doreen Massey
contributed to construct an opposition between a parochial, bounded, and reactionary
notion of place versus a global, unbounded, and relation one. This latter view, under
the label of ‘progressive sense of place’, has since become a dominant paradigm in
geography. The present article aims to ground these theoretical arguments in relation
to how people understand place today. Qualitative empirical information collected in
four different regional contexts in Western Europe confirms the discursive existence
of the above opposition. Yet, it also challenges the ways in which notions of
thickness/thinness and bounded-ness/unbounded-ness relate to the regressive or
progressive character of place.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale GeografieVolume
102Issue
3Pages
331 - 345Citation
ANTONSICH, M., 2011. Grounding theories of place and globalisation. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 102 (3), pp.331-345.Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd (Article © The Author / Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie © 2010 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG)Version
- SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)
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2011Notes
This is the submitted version of the article, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.2010.00614.xISSN
0040-747XeISSN
1467-9663Publisher version
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