ABSTRACT
Since the 1990s, the politics of place has attracted renewed interest in the social sciences and, albeit with some delay, in anthropology too. The influential work of Gupta and Ferguson (1997) has been pivotal in setting an engaging agenda for research into the politics of place, while ousting once and for all the assumed isomorphism of place, culture and community. Processes of place-making and politics of space have become the focus of recent ethnographic research that probes into the ways that space is socialised and social relations are spatialised (Massey 1994).
