ABSTRACT
Somerville’s (2011, 2) concept of place as “occup[ying] the space between grounded materiality and the discursive space of representation” provides a ‘productive framework’ for considering how place is spoken about, whose knowledges of place is valued and what kinds of texts are produced. It makes possible new ways of thinking about and ‘reading the world and the word’ (Freire, 1970) that foreground reading the landscape and human relations with place. Such rethinking is crucial to reaffirming the importance of caring for places and ensuring their ecological capacity for sustaining future generations.
