The ghosts of place

Theory and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 813-836

  Bell, Michael Mayerfeld ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 21944438058     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006888230610     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. For a review, see Nicholas Entrikin, The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991).
2. This observation has been made most forcefully by John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan, editors, The Power of Place: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989);
3. Entrikin, Betweenness;
4. and Linda Labao, "The Place of 'Place' in Current Sociological Research," Environment and Planning A 26 (1994): 665-668.
5. It is also worth, as a note, making some distinction between what I mean by space and by place. Space refers to the three-dimensional coordinates of things. A place is a particular space that has meaning. But this difference should not be reified. Like most categorical distinctions, this too falls apart at the margins, for even the merest recognition of coordinates is a form of meaning, of placement. Perhaps it would be better to say that, in what follows, when I speak of place I am emphasizing issues of meaning more than I would be if I were speaking of space.
6. See Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, Lewis Coser, editor and translator, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992 [1941 and 1952]);
7. John R. Gillis, editor, Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994);
8. Iwona Irwin-Zarecka, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory (New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Transaction, 1994);
9. Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Barry Schwartz, "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a difficult past," American Journal of Sociology 97 (1991): 376-420; and others.
10. See Labao, "Place."
11. See Kai T Erikson, Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976),
12. and Kai T Erikson, A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Diaster, Trauma, and Community (New York: Norton, 1994).
13. See John Logan and Harvey Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
14. See John Urry, The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies (London: Sage, 1990)
15. and John Urry, Consuming Places (London and New York: Routledge, 1995).
16. See Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1984).
17. See David M. Hummon, Commonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture (Albany: State University of New York, 1990),
18. and Lee Cuba and David M. Hummon, "A Place to Call Home: Identification with Dwelling, Community, and Region," The Sociological Quarterly 34/1 (1993): 111-131.