Places on the Margin

by Rob Shields

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'.

Genres: Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published February 20, 1991

Reviews

[Rytas Sakas]

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[Malcolm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shields exploration of geographies of modernity as he calles them draws on four case studies - Brighton, Niagara Falls, the Canadian North and England's North-South differentiation - which he analyses through the invocatin of the spatial work of Henri Lefebvre. His case, in short, is that these peripheral places became, in the first two cases, important markers of social newness, and in the later two became vital images of the nation. The theoretical work is challenging - athough Lefebvre is central, Shields draws on a range of contemporary social theorists from the ubiquitous Foucault to Bourdieu and Berman. Impressive and important.