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Transforming place, placing transformation

Interventions, 2005
This paper describes the political context of the 2004 World Social Forum (WSF) held in Mumbai, India from January 16–21, 2004. Using a concept of ‘place’ borrowed from Doreen Massey, it argues that most academic reviews of the WSF employ an abstract notion of globalization that is detached from the everyday struggles of the majority of WSF ...
Kamal Kapadia, D. Asher Ghertner
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Place and Non-place: A Phenomenological Perspective

2017
The distinction between place and non-place has occupied a critical role in both the philosophy of place and human geography for the last 20 years. In a distinction that stems from Marc Augé but is traceable to Edward Relph, “place” is thought as being relationally constructed, laden with meaning, and shaped by a broader history; home being emblematic ...
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Placing Understanding/Understanding Place

Sophia, 2016
This paper sets out an account of hermeneutics as essentially ‘topological’ in character (where ‘topology’ is understood as designating the philosophical inquiry into place) at the same time as it also argues that hermeneutics has a key role to play in making clear the nature of the topological.
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Places and Non-Places

2018
This chapter examines how witnesses animate places, both those reconstructed in narrative and those displayed on camera. Moreover, this chapter delves into the question of catastrophe as bodily perception. Memories of radical physical alienation, kinetic maneuvering, and topographical orientation all contribute to the witness’s notion of history.
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Reclaiming Place:

2017
bell hooks’s poems from her book Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place are reprinted throughout this collection, illustrating how place matters. In this chapter on reclaiming place and making home, the author describes her life journey from growing up in rural Kentucky—experiencing both racial apartheid and a connection with the land and generations of ...
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Placing Health

2006
Involving citizens in policy decision-making has been a central goal of the Labour government since it came to power. But what happens when the public are drawn into debate with unfamiliar others in the unknown world of policy making at national level? This book sets out to understand the contribution that citizens can realistically make.
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Place publique

Risques & qualité en milieu de soins, 2023
Michel Sfez, Gilbert Mounier
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