ABSTRACT
The aim of this book is to advance the study of space and place by exploring and explaining two well-established conceptual frames – social production and social construction – and four newer ones – embodied space, language and discourse, emotion and affect and translocal space. It examines how these conceptual frames work ethnographically and in relationship to one another. Another objective has been to consider the overlap of the social construction and social production of space and their points of intersection in the search for new concepts and heuristic models that might integrate them. This exploration of multiple conceptual perspectives questions the essentialism and assumed constancy and stability of any one of them and instead encourages a nuanced and multidimensional inquiry into and depiction of space and place research problems. This conclusion emphasizes how the different approaches are employed ethnographically.
