Perspectives on Space and Place

Spaces and places influence our lives in complex and elusive ways of which we may not even be aware. These spaces and places may be as concrete as an urban neighborhood or a prestigious art gallery; however, they may also be as potentially intangible as a virtual environment or the remembered impact of choreography. In response to this diversity of perspectives, this interdisciplinary volume collects work from a wide variety of authors. The multiple viewpoints presented in these chapters provide the reader with both familiar and innovative approaches to the study of space and place. Art, literature, dance, film, and philosophy are examined along side architecture, archaeology, and ethnic identity. The goal of this volume is to persuade the reader to consider their own ideas in new and different ways, discovering connections that productively expand the study of space and place

Table of Contents:
Part I Depicting Space and Place From Bar to Far Preveza: Political Geography and Geographical Poetry in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence Movements. Adam J. Goldwyn The Sensation of Place: Translating the Experiential Sensation of a Space into a Work of Art Ann Holt Exploring Space, Creating Place: Depictions of Dublin in the Art of Harry Kenoff RHA (1900-1974) Kathryn Milligan 'See it All Small' - Collective Space and Place in Public Spatial Models Yael Padan Theoretical Perspective on Space and Place: Construction of Meaning in Mesoamerica Gloria E. Everson The Role of Place as a Potential Determinant for the Experience of Presence in Virtual Environments Thierry Plante Part II Producing and Re-producing Space and Place I Don't Know What I am Looking for but I'll Know it When I See it Andrew Sneddon The Production of Place in East Asian Spaces Simone Shu-Yeng Chung Arab-Jewish Theatrical Co-Performances as Third Space Naphtaly Shem-Tov Shifting Geo/Graphies: Between Production and Reception of Imagined Spaces Antje Ziethen Monastery - A Synthesis of the Triad: Space, Territory, Place Violeta Puscasu Monastic Space and Identity in Southern Languedoc: The Monastery of Saint Peter of Psalmodi Taylor Zaneri Long Nights in Coffeehouses: The Effects of Place on Ottoman Storytellers Defne Cizakca Finding Never-Land: Nomadic Space-Time, Rhetoric, and Ethnic Minorities Frida Buhre Part III Transforming Space and Place Making Space Visible: Walking on Walls Larraine Nicholas Imagining the Space and Place of the Imaginary Amir Ameri A Meditation on De Certeau and Virilio: Vision, Flow and Movement in the Arab Urban Environment Harris Breslow Ruins of the British Country House: Sutton Scarsdale and the Reinterpretation of National Identity Miriam Cady Quake, Place and the End of the English: The New Zealand Christchurch Cathedral as Symbolic of Christchurch Place Identity Duncan Harding Crossing the Threshold: The Domestic House/Home as a Site for Contemporary Irish Art Installations Jane Humphries Painting Facades: A Strategy to Become 'a place on the map' Veronica Conte Political Power and Ideas on Space and Place Embodied in Albanian Socialist Painting Fjoralba Satka Mata Mandalising the American Landscape: The Construction of Buddhist Spaces Through Tibetan-English Poetry Enrique Galvan-Alvarez Part IV Interpreting Space and Place Figure and Field: Space, Place and the Situation of Visual Artists Duncan McKay Space for Coeval Multiplicity: A Response to Doreen Massey's Critique of Derridean Deconstruction Astrid Nordin Space, Place, and Reconstruction in British Post War Science Fiction Matthew Melia Sky-high Sci-fi: Vertical Urbanism in Science Fiction Literature Lucy E. Hewitt The Convent as Inquisition - Anti-Catholic Space in English Gothic Fiction Kenneth Poulsen

About the Author :
Gloria Everson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lyon College in the state of Arkansas in the United States. Her research interests include Mesoamerican archaeology, including cosmology and spatial analysis.