ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the idea, that the world is something ordered and analysable and discusses the interrelationship between place, non-place and the symbolic efforts to reproduce place in a locale thought to be unfamiliar to those who arrive there: namely, continental Europe. This is a process similar to the age-old anthropological adage of the way through which the strange is made familiar. The chapter also examines the manner in which place, at the grandest scale conceivable, has been represented as something that it is possible to systematise and categorise, before moving on to more anthropologically sensitive accounts of place and non-place. The architecture that is most conducive to theorising an epistemological and ontological conceptual metaphor as broad as that of 'Europe' is the very same as the one proposed in Foucault: namely, the juxtapository and contradictory location of the non-place.
