People and place: The extraordinary geographies of everyday life

296 Pages·2001·55.194 MB·English

by  Lewis Holloway and Phil Hubbard

People and place
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People and place
The extraordinary geographies of everyday life
Lewis Holloway and
Phil Hubbard
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Firstpublished2001byPearsonEducationLimited
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contents
List offigures vu
List oftables IX
Preface:read this! Xl
Acknowledgements XIV
Chapter 1 . .. Arrivals 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Thinkinggeographically 6
1.3 Approaches to human geography 8
1.4 Geographies of peopleand place? 12
Chapter 2 Everyday places, ordinary lives 15
2.1 Introduction 15
2.2 Space, timeand globalization 16
2.3 Mapping the geographiesofeveryday life 25
Chapter 3 Knowing place 38
3.1 Introduction 38
3.2 Geographiesof the mind, geographies of the senses 40
3.3 Place images and mental maps 48
3.4 Behaviour in place 55
Chapter 4 Asenseof place 66
4.1 Introduction 66
4.2 Regionalgeography,homeplacesand humanisticapproaches 67
4.3 Humanisticgeography: 'there's no place like home' 71
4.4 The geography of the lifeworld 78
4.5 Writing home: place, landscape and belonging 81
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Chapter 5 Disturbing place 89
5.1 Introduction 89
5.2 Home sweet home . . .? 90
5.3 Exclusion, territoriality and national identity 96
5.4 Geographies of fear and anxiety 107
5.5 Rethinking humanistic geographies 112
Chapter 6 Imagining places 116
6.1 Introduction 116
6.2 Mythologies and geographical imaginations 117
6.3 Urban myths 119
6.4 Wild and natural places 130
6.5 The mystical East:imagining elsewhere 138
Chapter 7 Representing place 143
7.1 Introduction 143
7.2 Interpreting communication: what is representation? 145
7.3 Place, space and knowledge 149
7.4 'It'sgrim up North . . .':representing regions 161
7.5 Geography as representation: maps and map-making 168
Chapter 8 Place and power 178
8.1 Introduction 178
8.2 Power,discipline and the state 179
8.3 Civilized bodies, civilized places 191
8.4 Placeand moral order 200
Chapter 9 Struggles for place 208
9.1 Introduction 208
9.2 Place,conflict and transgression 209
9.3 Placeand resistance 217
9.4 Speaking from the margins: the culturalpoliticsof place 225
Chapter 10 Departures ... 233
10.1 Introduction 233
10.2 Philosophy and human geography 237
10.3 Moral geographies, immoral geographers? 242
10.4 Doing geography: telling stories 246
Bibliography 252
Index 270
list of figures
1.1 New National Parks in the UK ... 2
2.1 Growth of the Internet and World Wide Web 18
2.2 Globaldiscourseas advertising strategy:the United Colors of Benetton 19
2.3 A Parisian street scene 24
2.4 Atime-space map of two individuals 29
2.5 Thediminished worlds of individualsliving with HIV 32
2.6 Dansemacabre?Thedailypath ofSormlands-Nisse 34
3.1 The reach ofthe senses 41
3.2 The behavioural environment 43
3.3 Amodel of environment and behaviour 45
3.4 Componentsofmental maps 50
3.5 Children's mental maps 54
3.6 A'hard' classroom 59
3.7 A'soft' classroom 60
3.8 The notion ofpersonal space 61
3.9 Supermarketsare spacesof ordered complexity 62
4.1 Sacred space and symbolic place?Stonehenge 74
4.2 Triad of environmental experience 79
4.3 Street ballet 80
4.4 Thedialectic between movementand rest 81
4.5 Crowsin theioheatfields,Vincent VanGogh (1890) 86
5.1 Cleansing space 93
5.2 Turf proximity and inter-gang aggression, North Philadelphia, 1966-70 98
5.3 Intensity of incidents between rivalgangs 99
5.4 John Bulland time-wasting politicians 101
5.5 Landscapes of Englishness 102
5.6 Fear ofcrime and the night: The Perilthat Lurksin the Dark, Gustav
Dore (1863) 109
viii • List of figures
6.1 Planning the urban environment: Ebenezer Howard's 'Social City' 125
6.2 The suburban dream? 'Stockbroker's Tudor', Osbert Lancaster 127
6.3 Desire and disgust on the streets: a street prostitute in the UK 129
6.4 Racialstereotypes:the 'civilized' and the 'savage' 136
6.5 The Orientalmyth: Richard Burton's 'Personal Narrative' (1893) 140
7.1 Cecin'est pasune pipe ('Thisisnot a pipe'), Rene Magritte (1929) 148
7.2 Mrand Mrs Andrews, ThomasGainsborough (1748) 152
7.3 Ruralidylls?Early photography,from Grundy's Eng/ish Views (1857) 153
7.4a Necessitiesfor thecountry life?Waxed jackets 155
7.4b Necessitiesfor thecountry life?Solid-fuelstoves 155
7.5 Rural commodification: Hatton Country World 157
7.6 'Especiallyfor the SmallHolder': a farming idyll 159
7.7 The countrysidecomes to town: Countryside March, March 1998,
London 160
7.8 Aworking townscape: Burslem, Staffordshire 163
7.9 Promoting place: Bradford,West Yorkshire 166
7.10 A mappa mundi:the Ebstorfmap (1235) 170
7.11 Redrawing the world: the polar azimuthalprojection 171
7.12 Afragment of OSmap 172
8.1 Statuary as a performanceofpower:Forward, Centenary Square,
Birmingham 181
8.2 Bentham's design ofthe Panopticon 184
8.3 Closed circuit television: surveyingthe streets 188
8.4 Impolite behaviour? Eating on thestreets, Stratford-upon-Avon 194
8.5 Working the body 196
8.6 The personification of pollution: 'Faraday giveshiscard to
FatherThames' 203
8.7 Raving: out of place in thecountryside? 205
9.1 Atypicallysterileand ordered children'splayground 211
9.2 Urban transgression:theskateboarder in thecity 213
9.3 Exercising the 'Right to Roam'?The mass trespass on Kinder Scout,
the English Peak District, 1932 219
9.4 The Carnivalagainst Capitalism (Summer 1999) 221
9.5 Streetstyle:hip-hop fashion as oppositionalculture 224
10.1 Textualrelations 248
list of tables
2.1 Theten biggest TNCs by market value (US$),not adjusted for inflation 19
2.2 Distance travelled bytheaverage UK person per year:
NationalTravel Survey 1994-96 28
2.3 Average number of journeyscompleted bythe average person, per year:
NationalTravelSurvey 1994-96 28
3.1 Children's understandingof their surroundings 53
7.1 ImagesofNorth and South 164
9.1 Acomparison ofconventionaVheterosexist and alternative!
feminist research methods 227