Reanimating Places A Geography of Rhythms Re-materialising Cultural Geography Series

Time-space relationships are central to human geography. This book seeks to reanimate time-space, by considering the links between lived experience, various temporalities and particular places in terms of compounded and contested rhythms. Time-space rhythms emphasize the practical, symbolic, everyday and embodied qualities in the experience and making of our geographical environment. Bringing together a team of renowned geographers who have been exploring such ideas over the past decades, this book provides a unique and varied set of geographical approximations to the reanimation of place, nature and landscape, revealing a complex, disputed world of politics, sensory experiences and representations of space-time. Including case studies from Europe and North America, the book addresses some important issues, ranging from the symbolic orchestrations of landscape to deeply personal memories of particular natural rhythms.

Contents: Introduction: Lineages of a geography of rhythms, Tom Mels. Reanimating Place and Displacement: Sense of place: its relationship to self and time, Yi-Fu Tuan; The stranger's lifeworld: the Chinese diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurs in Canada, David Ley; Softly heaves the glassy sea: nature's rhythms in an era of displacement, Edmunds Bunkse; Rhythms and identity in Boyne Valley landscapes, Gerry O'Reilly. Reanimating Urban Lifeworlds: Temporality and the rhythms of sustainable landscapes, Edward Relph; Grasping the dynamism of urban place: contributions from the work of Christopher Alexander, Bill Hillier, and Daniel Kemmis, David Seamon; Rent rhythm in the flamenco of urban change, Eric Clark; Time-space rhythms and everyday urban life, Ann-Cathrine Ã…quist. Reanimating Embodied Landscapes: Place and identity: the life of Marie de L'Incarnation (1599-1672), Anne Godlewska; Placing the holy, Gunnar Olsson; Masquing and dancing the theatre of state: the 'invention' of Britain as a landscaped body politic, Kenneth R. Olwig; Heritage landscapes, geographical imaginations and material cultures: tracing Ulster's past, Nuala C. Johnson. Reanimating Geographies: Place-making and time, Robert David Sack; Index.

Dr Tom Mels is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kalmar University, Sweden.