Place

Abstract

This chapter excavates the wealth of meaning in “place”. It begins with a working understanding of the word “place”. Without overly belaboring the definitional task, Gieryn's tripartite definition of place as location, material form, and meaningfulness seems reasonable. Not only is place central to accounts of how the world as all know it came to be, place is also central to historical accounts of how all came to know our world and our place in it. Places can be approached as pauses of sorts in what would otherwise be an overwhelming, meaningless flow of space-time. Metaphoric allusions to arts of all sorts – weaving, painting, writing, dance, and theater chief amongst them – prevail in humanistic understandings of place as an actively crafted entity. Far from being a dead-end topic, place continues to encapsulate some of the deepest human desires and paradoxes.

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