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Senses of Place

American Anthropologist, 1998
Senses of Place. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso. eds. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1996. 293 pp.
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Children’s Sense of Place

2012
In the book The Century of the Child, written in 1900, the Swedish author Key argued that the twentieth century should be the century in which we learn to let children develop as individuals and not simply be ‘bad copies’ of each other (Key, 1900). This was an attack on the kindergartens and schools of that time, which she saw as contributing to the ...
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A Sense of Place

2017
In this chapter, the significance of the notion of ‘place’ throughout Woolf’s oeuvre is explored. Sharing affinities with the Heideggerian perspective, Woolf’s writings both demonstrate and reinforce the significance of place as an essential aspect of the individual’s state of Being-in-the-world. For both Woolf and Heidegger, place becomes the means by
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Senses of Place

2012
Geographer Johann Rauw wrote that the German landscape made him think of ‘a great and splendid city with its suburbs, the city itself located within its walls and fortifications, the suburbs without’. The image, an elegant way of evading the muddle of borders, contrasts to his equally vivid image of walking the ‘circumference of Germany, as far as the ...
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A Sense of No-Place

European Journal of English Studies, 2012
That the roots of ecological crisis lie in the alienation of modern people from nature is a recurrent theme of environmentalist thought. The related principles of ecocentric identification and ‘sense of place’ are frequently advanced as providing a remedy for this problem, as well as a conceptual foundation for both Deep Ecology and environmental ...
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A Sense of Place

Abstract Several distinctive new genres developed or revived in the early seventeenth century evoke particular places: satiric city comedy, ‘country house’ and prospect poetry, and ‘chorography’ or the literary mapping of England. This chapter considers these various kinds of ‘place poetry’ together, arguing that they share a set of ...
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Sense of place

Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2009
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