ABSTRACT
The past decade has witnessed the irruption of place consciousness into social and political analysis. Place consciousness, one recent philosophical inquiry suggests, is integral to human existence, for it is nearly impossible to ‘imagine what it would be like if there were no places in the world’ ( Casey 1993:ix). On the other hand, places are not given, but are produced by human activity, which implies that how we imagine and conceive places is a historical problem. In its most recent manifestation, place consciousness is closely linked to, and appears as the radical other of that other conspicuous phenomenon of the last decade, globalism.
