For scholars of local histories, cultural geographies, and matters space and place.
Candace Bailey deposited Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Review of Charleston Belles Abroad in Journal of American History
Bill Pascoe deposited Mapping Meaning: learnings from indigenous mapping technology for Australia’s digital humanities mapping infrastructure in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
Time Layered Cultural Map (TLCMap) is an ambitious, ARC funded, digital humanities mapping infrastructure initiative in Australia. TLCMap infrastructure is for everyone, but the inspiration, conception and development of it has always had Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mapping at its heart. If Australian culture is world famous for anything…[Read more]
Baltasar deposited El contexto psicológico de la ciudad contemporánea in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
El autor presenta una visión panorámica de la evolución histórica y conceptual de algunos temas clave de los estudios urbanos: el tamaño de la ciudad, el espacio urbano, el concepto de urbanita y ciudadano, y el modelo de ciudad ideal. Las propuestas de los sociólogos del siglo XIX y de la Escuela de Chicago, han dejado paso a un urbanismo postm…[Read more]
Frans Prasetyo deposited Half bowl ritual, half public-private : Space and Place Skateboard in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Skateboards have unique character complexities in the city, as multiface, multispace and multiplace. Spatialization of style to Stylization of space is a how skareboard create youth culture and a part of sub-culture. Looking ritual a play skateboard in the city more have dimension of style, space and place, as happened in bowl skatepark.
James L. Smith deposited Rural Waterscape and Emotional Sectarianism in Accounts of Lough Derg, County Donegal in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The story of Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal is arranged around clusters of sectarian narratives in juxtaposition, synthesis and conflict. The Sanctuary of Saint Patrick sits on Station Island, a small rocky islet set within the waters of the lake. The site became well known in the early Middle Ages as the place of Saint Patrick’s del…[Read more]
Key MacFarlane deposited Hamburg’s Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Germany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right-wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg’s ur…[Read more]
Ian Rodwell deposited A warning to the curious: ghost signs as liminal memento-mori in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This conference paper explores ghost signs: the faded adverts for brands, organisations and services that we see inked or carved on walls or above shops. I discuss: 1. the liminality of ghosts and ghosts signs – and the ways we materially engage with them 2. how they flex time and, in doing so, gift us an organisational warning 3. and how, as m…[Read more]
Frans Prasetyo deposited Popular struggle in Indonesia : The spirit of Bandung in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
This week the Indonesian presidential election has been a contest between the incumbent Jokowi, who has promised an ambitious programme of agrarian reform, and the descendent of the military dictator Suharto. In this article, Frans Ari Prasetyo exposes the contradictions of the Jokowi government’s dependence on the World Bank and local c…[Read more]
Key MacFarlane deposited Geographies of Lifelong Learning and the Knowledge Economy in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
With the advance of neoliberal globalization in the 1990s, lifelong learning emerged in the policy frameworks of the United States, Canada, and the EU. Neoliberal policies during this era worked to orchestrate personal development within the increasingly flexible processes of global capitalism, placing both within the rhythm of a personal life…[Read more]
Key MacFarlane deposited Crime and the Global City: Migration, Borders, and the Pre-Criminal in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
In recent years social scientists have been interested in the growth and transformation of global cities. These metropolises, which function as key command centers in global production networks, manifest many of the social, economic, and political tensions and inequities of neoliberal globalization. Their international appeal as sites of financial…[Read more]
Key MacFarlane deposited Time, Waste, and the City: The Rise of the Environmental Industry in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
In many US cities, especially those in the Rust Belt, the environmental goods and services (EGS) industry has played a significant role in restructuring local economies to promote new, flexible, and “creative” forms of service-based labour. And yet much of the environmental work conducted in these cities has been directed at an industrial pas…[Read more]
Key MacFarlane deposited A thousand CEOs: Relational thought, processual space, and Deleuzian ontology in human geography and strategic management in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Over the last 20 years the imbrication between capital and the university has grown much firmer. This
paper seeks to map one point at which this binding occurs: in critical theory. Recently scholars in strategic
management have turned to processual and relational ontologies in an attempt to reimagine the logics of
profit, value, and growth.…[Read more]Susan Marie Martin deposited African Americans and gentrification in Washington, D.C.: race, class and social justice in the nation’s capital by Sabiyah Prince in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
Using qualitative data, including extensive interview material and ethnographic research, to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans as they confront and construct gentrification, this book aims to contextualize Black Washingtonians’ perspectives on belonging and attachment during a marked period of urban restructuring and d…[Read more]
Susan Marie Martin deposited Leading the inclusive city: place-based innovation for a bounded planet in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
While acknowledging the difficulties cities face, Leading the Inclusive City mounts a powerful case that cities do have tools at their disposal for ameliorating inequality, advancing social justice, promoting environmental responsibility, and bolstering community empowerment. Susan Marie Martin thinks citizens of all cities will find this book…[Read more]
Susan Marie Martin deposited On the commodity trail: the journey of a bargain store product from East to West in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects. Susan Marie Martin finds the author’s writing style, which includes historical ironies, and parallels between concepts and lived experience, have created a text accessible to a broad, curious readership.
Susan Marie Martin deposited The Shawlies: A study of early neoliberal ‘gender-fication’. The Street Trading Act, 1926, modern gender-fication, and the implications for Cork’s women street traders in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
For centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Why Daghestan is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
During the final decade of his productive life, Moshe Gammer (1950-2013) edited the first major English-language series on Daghestani philology. This chapter examines key aspects of Gammer’s legacy, while offering an overview of Daghestani philology from the colonial period to the present, and outlining how this field of inquiry enables us to r…[Read more]
Paulo Vitor Airaghi deposited O JORNAL CENTRO ACADEMICO DO RIO DE JANEIRO: UM CENTRO DIFUSOR DE IDEIAS REPUBLICANAS NO SÉCULO XIX (1872-1873) in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
O objetivo do trabalho é analisar o jornal Centro Academico, publicado entre 1872 e 1873 por alunos da Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia do Rio de Janeiro e por alunos da Escola Central de Engenharia do Exército, como centro difusor de ideias republicanas durante o século XIX. Esse periódico diagnosticava o Império Brasileiro e, a partir diss…[Read more]
Lucia Binotti deposited Survey of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
371 is an introduction to canonical works of Early Modern Spanish. This semester, we take a novel approach to the reading and interpretation of masterpieces of Spanish literature to revisit the notion of canon, and to challenge standard disciplinary approaches that constrain Spanish and Portuguese within the boundaries of national literary and…[Read more]
Wei Hsien Wan deposited Repairing Social Vertigo: Spatial Production and Belonging in 1 Peter in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
An attempt to think about authorial strategies of dislocation and relocation in 1 Peter. First presented at a conference on Early Christianity and its urban environment held at St. Mary’s University in Twickenham, England, 2015.
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