Mah.2012.Industrial ruination, community and place
"The research discussed in this book highlights the impacts of deindustrialization on place-based communities (as contrasted with communities based on interest or identity), focusing on r
Fortun.2012.Ethnography in Late Industrialism
"Ethnography must, then, create a space for deliberation, for worrying through, for creativity. It must stage encounters."
Swyngedouw.2010.Place, Nature, and the Question of Scale
On the politics of scale from a historical-materialist perspective with regard to the question of modernity, fascism, and capitalism.
An interview with D. Massey on space
"Space is the dimension that cuts across all those stories; the dimension of our simultaneity, of multiplicity.
Friedmann.2007.Reflections on Place and Place‐making in the Cities of China
“… by being lived in, urban spaces become humanized.
Massey.2005.Negotiating non-human/human place
The review essay of Hugh Raffles' book In Amazonia, which centers on the conceptualization of "place as ongoing negotiation."
Roy.2009.The 21st-Century Metropolis
“The present paper argues that it is time to rethink the geographies of urban and regional theory.
Swyngedouw.2000.Authoritarian governance, power, and the politics of rescaling
"Spatial scale has to be understood as something that is produced historically; a process that is always deeply heterogenous and contested.
"Attention to friction opens the possibility of an ethnographic account of global interconnection.