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Anthropology/Archeology and Place

  • www.c14dating.com Radiocarbon dating used as a method of situating/placing ourselves anthropologically/natural-historically/physically in the world in order to derive inferences of our place of origin.Developed in the late 1970’s this method was said to offer a revolutionary approach to uncovering the genesis of the human species. Measurement of temporal processes is the key to unlocking the mysteries of our place in the world.
  • http://architectures.home.sapo.pt/Entrada.htm A very interesting site on the archeology of architecture focusing on the prehistoric buildings in Portugal; instead of merely focusing on tombs or temples, these archeologists seek to ethnographically infer what meanings the successive structuring and restructuring of mundane places could have meant socially and cognitively for the ‘prehistoric’ inhabitants of the area.
  • http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/ This site is called Implosion (an insight allegedly taken from O.H. Bollnow) and is dedicated to Architectural Anthropology subhuman, semantic, domestic, and settlement architecture is explored ethnographically, dia- and synchronically in order to facilitate a new approach to many disciplines in the humanities. Some of the links are not very helpful, but others may be of interest.

Architecture and Place

  • http://www.cf.ac.uk/archi/unwins/aawebs/analarch.html “Place is to architecture as meaning is to language”, this site was created and is maintained by Simon Unwin in conjunction with his book Analysing Architecture. The site is made up of separate links that correspond to the chapter divisions in his book. This is a VERY interesting site!Species of Spaces by Georges Perec is often quoted and may be of interest. Unwin is quite influenced by Heidegger it seems, as there is a concerted effort to incorporate ontology with architecture/place.
  • http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/dillerscofidio.html this is a building designed by Diller and Scofidio called “The Blur Building”…quite interesting.
  • http://www.cca.qc.ca/en “The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) was founded in 1979 as a new form of cultural institution to build public awareness of the role of architecture in society, promote scholarly research in the field, and stimulate innovation in design practice.” This site and organization are of great interest; the CCA is located in Montreal, where various exhibitions, seminars, tutorials, etc. are held.
  • http://www.charlesmoore.org/home.html “The Charles Moore Foundation is dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of the whole physical domain - architecture, landscape, the environment, cities, steets, homes, and neighborhoods. The foundation's programs, publications, and projects are guided by the values central to the late Charles Moore's thinking, and the conviction that "good places matter." The Moore Foundation has as its own home the Moore/Andersson Compound in Austin, Texas.”
  • http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/EAP.html this is the website for the “Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter”; this journal explores the following themes: Sense of place;  Architectural and landscape meaning; Changing conceptions of space, place, and nature; Home, dwelling, and journey; The nature of environmental and architectural experience; Environmental design as place making; The practice of a livedenvironmental ethic. The site has a great number of articles available to read for free!
  • http://places.designobserver.com/ The Design Observer Group website…sooo much to explore on this website…definitely worth a look.

Art and Place

  • http://www.ski.org/CWTyler_lab/CWTyler/Art%20Investigations/C20th_Space/C20thSpace.html This is a link to an essay entitled “The Concept of Space in 20th Century Art” and may be of interest as it relates the various movements of art in the 20th c. to scientific and social re-constructions or deconstructions of space/place and how these were utilized or theorized on canvas, sculpture, mixed media, etc. The essay draws much of its inspiration from op artist Frank Stella’s work and book Moving Spaces (1986).
  • http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/reservation_x/intro.htm This site is called “Reservation X: the Power of Place” and is an exploration into the dynamics of place, community and identity from the perspective of seven Native American artists.

Place and Environment

  • http://www.envplan.com/D.html this site is the link to the journal Society and Space which is fourth in a series of journals entitled Environment and Planning; the journal is an “international and interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for the discussion of the mutually constitutive relation between the social and the spatial. It seeks to be philosophically sophisticated, practically relevant, and to concretely theorize a range of contemporary, historical, political and cultural contexts.” There is a link to some of the articles that have appeared in the journal which can be downloaded as PDF files.
  • http://www.psyeta.org/sa/ the “Society and Animals Forum” is a database dedicated to human and non-human animal interaction; the site has a number of helpful links on the subject, as well as reading lists, public discussion forums etc.
  • http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/w-titles/wolch_animalgeo.shtml this is a link to a book title that looks very interesting and worthwhile to check out, it is entitled, Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands.
  • http://www.acousticecology.org/ very interesting site exploring the sonoric environment, the sound of place and the place of sound.
  • http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html another soundscape website dedicated to the work of R. Murray Schafer of Simon Fraser University who, in the 60’s and 70’s recorded the sounds of the urban and surrounding environment of Vancouver; the site is equipped with links to a host of sound bites both urban and wild.

Place and Culture

  • http://legacy.lclark.edu/~soan370/global/spaceplace.html Very interesting and worthwhile website! “Landscapes of Capital: Representing Time, Space, & Globalization in Corporate Ads” Part of this project is an investigation into the metaphorical representations of place in TV and internet advertising, as well as the cosmo-logies such representations presuppose or construct, i.e. what kinds of spaces/places are being represented as desirable, how a product is framed, product (im-) placement, etc.
  • http://www.arch.virginia.edu/site-mem/home.html Sites of Memory: Landscapes and Race Identity was a symposium at the University of Virginia in 1999, it “is a collaborative project aimed at documenting fragments of the black American cultural landscape.  Its goal is to explore the historic and contemporary effects of race upon the development of the built environment and to examine the realities and myths of America's dual racial landscapes. Central to this project is the idea that race has influenced the spatial development of the American landscape, creating separate, though sometimes parallel, overlapping or even superimposed cultural landscapes for black and white Americans.” This site is quite interesting and worthwhile to explore.
  • http://www.carleton.ca/space/ this is the weblink to the seemingly worthwhile journal Space and Culture…I’ve looked over some back issues and there seems to be a lot to dig into in every one. You can order back issues in .pdf through the site, or search through the site and order through JSTOR with RUC.
  • http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/ “Mysterious Places seeks to give the visitor information, educational materials, and personal observations about the remains of ancient civilizations, sacred sites and unusual locations from around the world.”
  • http://www.sacredsites.com/ the photo-journal of Martin Gray; worth a look.

Place and Literature

Philosophy of Place

BOOKS AND/OR JOURNAL ARTICLES OF INTEREST

  • Balshaw, Maria, and Liam Kennedy, eds. Urban Space and Representation. Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2000.
  • Betsky, Aaron, Queer Space: Architecture and Same-Sex Desire. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1997.
  • Foucault, Michel.  "Of Other Spaces," Diacritics 16 (Spring 1986), 22-27.
  • -- “Panopticism (Excerpt)” in Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Neil Leach, ed.
  • Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
  • Kennedy, Liam. Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
  • Lowenthal, David. "Past Time, Present Place: Landscape and Memory." Geographical Review LXV, no. 1 (January) (1975): 1-37.
  • Massey, Doreen B. Space, Place, and Gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
  • McDowell, Linda. Gender, Identity, and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
  • Rodman, Margaret. "Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality." American Anthropologist 94 (1992): 640-656.
  • Rybczynski, Witold. Home: A Short History of an Idea. New York, NY: Viking, 1986.
  • Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
  • Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery, The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
  • Aitken, Stuart C. and Leo E. Zonn, eds. Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: a Geography of Film. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.
  • Aoki, Keith. "Race, Space, and Place: The Relation Between Architectural Modernism, Post-Modernism, Urban Planning, and Gentrification" Fordham Urban Legal Journal 699 (1993).
  • Arizpe, L. "The Politics of Place and the Power of the Weaker" Development 45:1 (March 2002): 22-24.
  • Bale, John. "The Place of 'Place' in Cultural Studies of Sports." Progress in Human Geography 12:4 (1988): 507-524.
  • Durrheim, Kevin & John Dixon "The Role of Place and Metaphor in Racial Exclusion: South Africa's Beaches as Sites of Shifting Racialization." Ethnic and Racial Studies 24:3 (May 2001): 433-450.
  • Fleming, Douglas K and Richard Roth. "Place in Advertising." Geographical Review 81:3 (July 1991): 281-291.
  • hooks, bell. "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance," Yearning, Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Boston: South End Press, 1990.
  • Jones, Lindsay. "Jewish Place and Placelessness: Historical and Academic Challenges," in Neil Jacobs, ed.,Studies in Jewish Geography, special issue of Shofar: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 17:1 (1998).
  • Kitchin, R.M. ""Out of place", "knowing one's place": Towards a spatialised theory of disability and social exclusion." Disability and Society 13:3 (1998): 343-356.
  • Airaksinen, Timo. "Social Time and Place." Man and World. 18 (1985): 99-106.
  • Duhem, Pierre. Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void and the Plurality of Worlds. Edited and translated by Roger Ariew. University of Chicago Press, 1985.
  • Sambursky, Schmuel. The Concept of Place in Late Neoplatonism. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1982.
  • Efros, Israel Isaac. The Problem of Space in Jewish Mediaeval Philosophy. New York: AMS Press, 1966.
  • Furley, David. "Summary of Philoponus' Corollaries on Place and Void" in Richard Sorabji, ed., Philoponus. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987: 130-139.
  • Philoponus. Place, Void and Eternity: Corollaries on Place and Void. Translated by David Furley. With Simplicius,Against Philoponus on the Eternity of the World, translated by Christian Wildberg. London: Duckworth, 1991.
  • Harrington, L. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Hippocrates. Airs, waters, places, The medical works of Hippocrates. Translated by John Chadwick and W. N. Mann. Oxford: Blackwell, 1950. See also Hippocrates, vol. 1, trans. by W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957: 71-137.
  • Leijenhorst, Cees. "Place, space and matter in Calvinist physics." The Monist. 84:4 (October 2001): 520ff.
  • Mulrooney, Sean. "Boethius on Place." Proceedings of the PMR Conference: Annual Publication of the International Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Conference 15 (1990): 117-26.
  • Rynasiewicz R. "By Their Properties, Causes and Effects: Newton's Scholium on Time, Space, Place and Motion--I. The Text." Studies in History and Philosophy Part A. 26:1 (March 1995): 133-153.
  • Schabel, Chris. "Place, Space, and the Physics of Grace in Auriol's "Sentences" Commentary." Vivarium: an International Journal of the Philosophy and Intellectual Life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. 38:1 (2000): 117-161.
  • Sorabji, Richard. Matter, Space and Motion. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.
  • Shapiro, Herman. Motion, Time and Place According to William Ockham. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1957.
  • Bergson, Henri. "Aristotle's Concept of Place." Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 5 (1970): 13-72. See also L'idée de lieu chez Aristotle in Mélanges (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1972 [Alcan 1889])
  • Irigaray, Luce. "Place, Interval: a Reading of Aristotle, "Physics" IV" in Freeland, Cynthia, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 1998.
  • Morison, Benjamin. On Location: Aristotle’s Concept of Place. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002.
  • Schauber, Nancy. "Aristotle's Two Conceptions of Place" Prima Philosophia 11:4 (1998): 369-374.
  • Wiggins, D. "The Individuation of Things and Places, Part I" The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 1963; Supplement 37: 177-202.
  • Woods, M. "The Individuation of Things and Places, Part II" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 1963; Supplement 37: 203-216.
  • Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space & Place: the Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
  • Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
  • Casey, Edward. "Getting Placed: Soul in Space" Spring 7 (1982).
  • Casey, Edward. "‘The Element of Voluminousness': Depth and Place Re-examined," in M. Dillon, ed., Merleau-Ponty Vivant. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990: 1-29.
  • Casey, Edward. "Place, Form, and Identity in Post-modern Architecture and Philosophy: Derrida avec Moore, Mies avec Kant." In Shapiro, Gary ed. After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1990: 199-230.
  • Casey, Edward. "Heidegger In and Out Of Place" in Heidegger: A Centenary Appraisal. Pittsburgh: Silverman Phenomenology Center, 1990: 62-98.
  • Casey, Edward. "Smooth Spaces and Rough-edged Places: The Hidden History of Place." Review of Metaphysics. 51:2(1997): 267-296.
  • Casey, Edward. "The Production of Space or The Heterogeneity of Place: A Commentary on Edward Dimendberg and Neil Smith." in Light, Andrew & Jonathan Smith, eds. The Production of Public Space: Philosophy and Geography II. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
  • Casey, Edward. "J.E. Malpas’s Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography Converging and Diverging In/On Place”. Philosophy and Geography. 4:2 (August 2001).
  • Casey, Edward S. "Between Geography and Philosophy: What Does It Mean to Be in the Place-World?
(Forum)"Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91:4 (2001): 683ff.
  • Casey, Edward S. "On Habitus and Place: Responding to My Critics (Forum)" Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91:4 (2001): 716ff.
  • Casey, Edward. Representing Place: Landscape, Painting and Maps. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
  • Casey, E. S. "From space to place in contemporary health care." Social Science and Medicine. 56:11 (June 2003): 2245-2247.
  • Schatzki, Theodore. "Subject, Body, Place." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 91:4 (2001): 698-702.
  • Young, Terence. "Place Matters." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 91:4 (2001): 681-682.
  • Bonta, Mark & John Protevi. "Between Geography and Geophilosophy: A Thousand Plateaus and the Contemporary Earth Sciences. Part I" http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/fai/Faculty/Professors/Protevi/GeobookIntro.html.
  • Bonta, Mark & John Protevi. "Between Geography and Geophilosophy: A Thousand Plateaus and the Contemporary Earth Sciences. Part II"http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/fai/Faculty/Professors/Protevi/ComplexSpaces.html.
  • Janz, Bruce. "The Territory Is Not The Map: Place, Deleuze and Guattari, and African Philosophy" Philosophy Today. 45:4/5 (Winter 2001): 388-400. Also in Philosophia Africana. 5:1 (March 2002).
  • Bonta, Mark & John Protevi. Sample Entries from Between Geography and Geophilosophy: A Thousand Plateaus and the Contemporary Earth Sciences http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/fai/Faculty/Professors/Protevi/SampleEntries.html.
  • Maskit, Jonathan. "Something Wild? Deleuze and Guattari and the Impossibility of Wilderness." in Light, Andrew & Jonathan Smith, eds. Philosophies of Place: Philosophy and Geography III. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
  • Chanter, Tina. "Abjection, Death and Difficult Reasoning: The Impossibility of Naming Chora in Kristeva and Derrida" http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/4/chanter.html.
  • Derrida, "Khora" in T. Dutoit, ed., On the Name. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995: 89-127. Originally published as "Chora" in Poikilia: Festschrift pour J.-P. Vernant. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 1987.
  • Derrida, Jacques. "Architecture Where the Desire May Live." in Leach, Neil. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Routledge, 1997: 319-323.
  • Defert, Daniel. "Foucault, space and the architects", in: David, Catherine/Chevrier, Jean-François (Hrsg.):Poetics/Politics. Das Buch zur Documenta X, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 1997: 274-283.
  • DiMéo, Guy. "Géographies tranquilles du quotidien. Une analyse de la contribution des sciences sociales et de la géographie à l'étude des pratiques spatiales", Les Cahiers de Géographie du Québec 43 (1999): 75-93.
  • Foucault, Michel. "Of Other Spaces" Diacritics. 16 (Spring 1986): 22-27. See also Leach, Neil. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Routledge, 1997: 350-356.http://foucault.info/documents/heteroTopia/foucault.heteroTopia.en.html.
  • Foucault, Michel. "Space, Knowledge and Power" (interview)." Leach, Neil. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Routledge, 1997: 367-379.
  • Foucault, Michel. "Questions on Geography" in C. Gordon, ed. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon, 1980: 63-77.
  • Philo, Chris. "Foucault's Geography" Crang, Michael & N. J. Thrift, eds. Thinking Space (Critical Geographies). London: Routledge, 2000: 205-238.
  • Relph, Edward C. "Place, Postmodern Landscapes and Heterotopia", in: Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 3/1 (1992): 14.
  • Angus, Ian. "Place and Locality in Heidegger's Late Thought." Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought. 5:1 (Spring 2001): 5-23.
  • Casey, Edward. "Heidegger In and Out Of Place" in Heidegger: A Centenary Appraisal. Pittsburgh: Silverman Phenomenology Center, 1990: 62-98.
  • Gunter Dittmar, "Upon the Earth, Beneath the Sky: The Architecture of Being, Dwelling, and Building" Current Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics. 1 (Winter 2001).
  • Elden, Stuart, "Heidegger's Hölderlin and the Importance of Place." Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30:3 (October 1999): 258-74.
  • Heidegger, Martin. "Poetically Man Dwells" and “Building, Dwelling, Thinking” in Poetry, Language, Thought. Trans. A. Hofstadter. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
  • Heidegger, Martin. "Art and Space." Man and World 3 (1973): 3-8. See also Leach, Neil. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Routledge, 1997: 121-124.
  • Kluback, William & Jean Wilde. “An Ontological Consideration of Place,” in Martin Heidegger, The Question of Being. trans. William Kluback and Jean T. Wilde. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1958.
  • Malpas, Jeffrey. "Uncovering the Space of Disclosedness: Heidegger and the Problem of Spatiality in Being and Time", in Jeff Malpas and Mark Wrathall (ed.), Heidegger, Modernity Authenticity. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999).
  • Olivier, G. "Heidegger and Architecture: Preliminary Remarks." South African Journal of Philosophy 3 (1984): 22-30.
  • Wollan, G. "Heidegger's philosophy of space and place." Norwegian Journal of Geography 57:1 (2003): 31-39.
  • Neri, Guido. "Earth and Sky: An Analysis of Husserl's 1934 Manuscript on "The Spatiality of Nature"" Telos 92 (Summer 1992): 63-84.
  • Brenner, Neil. "State Theory in the Political Conjuncture: Henri Lefebvre's 'Comments on a New State Form."Antipode 2001: 783-808. http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/222/2001.Brenner.ANTIPODE1.pdf.
  • Brenner, Neil. "“Global, fragmented, hierarchical: Henri Lefebvre's geographies of globalization.” Public Culture10:1 (1997): 137-169. http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/222/1997.Brenner.Public.Culture.pdf.
  • Dimendberg, Edward. "Henri Lefebvre on Abstract Space." in Light, Andrew & Jonathan Smith, eds. The Production of Public Space: Philosophy and Geography II. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
  • Janzen, Russell. "Reconsidering the Politics of Nature: Henry Lefebvre and The Production of Space." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 13:2 (June 2002): 96-116.
  • Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
  • Molotch, Harvey. "The Space of Lefebvre." Theory and Society 22:6 (December 1993): 887-895.
  • Lefebvre, Henri. The Urban Revolution. University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
  • Shields, Rob. Lefebvre, Love and Struggle: Spatial Dialectics. London & New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Abe, Masao. "Nishida's Philosophy of "Place"." International Philosophical Quarterly. 28 (1988): 355-371.
  • Arisaka, Yoko. “System and Existence: Nishida's Logic of Place” in Augustin Berque, ed. Logique du lieu et depassement de la modernite. Ousia, Brussels: 1999: 40-65.
  • Heyd, Thomas. "Basho and the Aesthetics of Wandering: Recuperating Space, Recognizing Place, and Following the Ways of the Universe." Philosophy East and West. 53:3 (July 2003): 291-307.
  • Raud, Rein. "'Place' and 'Being-time': Spatiotemporal Concepts in the Thought of Nishida Kitaro and Dogen Kigen." Philosophy East and West. 54:1 (January 2004): 29-51.
  • Malpas, Jeffrey. "A Taste of Madeleine: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Place" International Philosophical Quarterly 34:136 (December 1994): 433-451.
  • Malpas, Jeffrey. "Finding Place: Spatiality, Locality, and Subjectivity" in Light, Andrew & Jonathan Smith, eds.Philosophies of Place: Philosophy and Geography III. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
  • Malpas, Jeffrey. "Remembering Place." International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 10:1 (Fall 2002): 92-99.
  • Malpas, Jeffrey. "Bio-medical Topoi-the dominance of space, the recalcitrance of place, and the making of persons." Social Science and Medicine 56:11 (June 2003): 2343-2351.