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- The notion of a progressive sense of place gained much traction in social and cultural geography as it provided a multiscalar, relational means to understand the cultural complexity and emergent nature of places, situating locales and communities within globalizing processes while not being subjugated to them.
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Aug 16, 2023 · Summary. TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION AND THE GEOMETRIES OF POWER. Much of what is written about space, place and postmodern times emphasizes a new phase in what Marx once called ‘the annihilation of space by time’. The process is argued, or more usually asserted, to have gained a new momentum, to have reached a new stage.
Drawing on Massey’s notion of a “progressive sense of place”, we identify, through a critical review of the literature, four main features of this concept that, taken together, have a unique...
Jun 21, 2017 · Another equally powerful and related concept is that of ‘power geometry and a progressive sense of place’ (Massey, Citation 1993a, Citation 1999b, Citation 2002a): thinking of places in this way implies that they are not so much bounded areas as open and porous networks of social relations.
- Richard Meegan
- 2017
It is a sense of place, an understanding of 'its character', which can only be constructed by linking that place to places beyond. A progressive sense of place would recognize that, without being threatened by it. What we need, it seems to me, is a global sense of the local, a global sense of place.
Aug 16, 2023 · One of Massey’s key points in these chapters is that the uniqueness of place stems not from homogeneity, but from multiplicity and heterogeneity. Acknowledging differences along axes of race, class, gender, and colonial history is one of the most characteristic aspects of her work.
Jun 1, 2016 · The notion of a progressive sense of place gained much traction in social and cultural geography as it provided a multiscalar, relational means to understand the cultural complexity and emergent nature of places, situating locales and communities within globalizing processes while not being subjugated to them.
The primary purpose of this chapter is to sketch out an approach to place that takes us beyond an opposition between confining, bounded, ‘reactionary’ senses of place that focus on rootedness, attachment and singu-larity on the one hand and a distributed, open, ‘progressive’ sense of place that focuses on flows, connections and networks on the o...