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Spirit of Place
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of Place
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simulated, fake, hidden, ideal, imaginary places
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Glocalization
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Why I did
all this
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B. Janz: Home Page
& Email
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Site Launched
May 2002
Last revised
26 May 2006
This website, including all the subpages,
is intended for the free use of researchers and students. If it is reproduced in whole or part, please give proper
credit to the author. Please do not mirror this site without the permission of the author. If you have questions
about the use of this site, contact the owner at the email address above.
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Research
on Place
and Space
Site Concept & Purpose
These pages pull together work on the concept of place
from a wide range of disciplines. The term "place" does not necessarily have the same implications or
meanings in the different disciplines. Furthermore, other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home,
dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent
to the notion of place.
The purpose of this set of resources is to try to cross-pollinate
the notion of place across disciplines. Philosophy, for example (my own discipline), has much to learn from the
way that other disciplines conceive of place, even as those disciplines have drawn on the resources of philosophy
in order to reflect on place.
There is no real attempt at a definition here, except
perhaps by extension.
Contents and Organization
As can be seen, this set of resources begins from the
concept of place, rather than space. I have added some space resources as they seem significant, and will continue
to do so, but that may take awhile.
There are several types of resources here. First, I
have tried to organize place resources in terms of disciplinary homes or origins. It is very difficult to categorize
many of the entries in this resource. Something I have placed in the anthropology section, for instance, may just
as well fit in any number of other categories. So, check several sections. If you think something is miscategorized,
let me know.
In a few cases I have listed entries on more than one
page; this is to facilitate browsing. I try to keep this to a minimum. I do not have a "single category"
bibliography, which includes all the entries, so it is not (yet) possible to scan one document for what you want.
A second type of resource is what I have called "related
terms". Place is manifest and discussed in a variety of ways, and stands in contrast to many different terms.
I have tried to capture the major ideas connected to place.
A third type of resource is synoptic. On the various
pages I have listed things like bibliographies, centres, courses, and so forth. All these resources are collected
in one place, under "All..."
There may come a time when this site is turned into
a database, but I'm resisting that, as I think it is more useful to browse and discover new work, than simply to
look for a specific work or do a keyword search.
If you want to search this site, there is an advanced
search engine to the right, or use the basic search box on the top of any sub-page.
The Site as a Portal
Each of the disciplinary sections includes a bibliography.
A bibliography such as this can never hope to be completely comprehensive, given the burgeoning literature and
the vagueness of the edges of the area; nevertheless, this is prepared in an attempt to collect as many central
writings as possible.
Other relevant entries, including on-line papers, are
included in the subject areas of this site. Some of these papers are in .pdf format, which requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader. You can download the Reader here:  There
are also abstracts for some of the papers. When you see this icon  click on it to see the abstract. As well, in some cases annotations are available for
the paper. If you see this button 
you will be taken to the annotations when you click on it.
As often as possible I have made links to publishers,
for further descriptions of books or journals. If these are unavailable, my second choice is a link to Amazon or
another bookseller. If you are an author and want to direct me to a good site that promotes your book, I'd be happy
to link to it.
Contributing to the Site
If you are the professor or teacher of a course on
place, or a student in a course on place, or anyone else who would like to contribute content to this research
page, please click here.
Recent Changes
This site has not been substantially updated since May 2006. Consequently, many links are no longer valid, and other resources have not been added. I will leave the site in place since it continues to be useful, even in its flawed state. I will also try to find the resources (support, time) to update it, but given current responsibilities, that may take awhile. Thanks for your patience.
Page Location: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/
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Bruce B.
Janz
Professor of Humanities
Department of Philosophy
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
Other Web Pages
Quick Links to People:
These links lead to the main references to specific
writers. For other links to work by these writers, please use the search engine above or on the top of all pages.
If two different authors use the
words 'red', 'hard', or 'disappointed', no one doubts that they mean approximately the same thing. . .
But in the case of words such as
'place' or 'space', whose relationship with psychological experience is less direct, there exists a far-reaching
uncertainty of interpretation.
Albert Einstein, foreword to Jammer,
Concepts of Space
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