Mobilizing place, placing mobility
Subtitle: the politics of representation in a globalized world
By: editors, Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell.
Contributors: Verstraete, Ginette, 1961-; Cresswell, Tim.
Series: Thamyris intersecting -- no. 9.
Publisher: Rodopi; Brill Rodopi; Brand: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Place (Philosophy); Human geography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : theorizing place / Tim Cresswell; title: Heading for Europe : tourism and the global itinerary of an idea / Ginette Verstraete; title: Imagined homelands : re-mapping cultural identity / Ernst van Alphen; title: Touring, routing and trafficking female geobodies : a video essay on the topography of the global sex trade / Ursula Biemann; title: The search for well being : placing development with indigenous identity / Laurel C. Smith; title: Being elsewhere : the politics and methods of researching symbolic exclusion / Nick Couldry; title: Remaining where you are : Kincaid and Glissant on space and knowledge / Isabel Hoving; title: Immersion and distance in virtual spaces / Renée van de Vall; title: No-man's-land? Five short cases on deserts and the politics of place / Inge E. Boer; title: Whither the world? Presence, absence and the globe / Kevin Hetherington.