ABSTRACT
This chapter approaches place as a specific articulation, a particular unique point of intersection of social relations, social practices and materiality; a meeting place which integrates the global and the local, and is shaped by the experiences, narratives and symbolic meanings of different (and sometimes conflicting) groups and individuals. Drawing from research in Athens, the chapter proposes three lines of argument to help think the “gendering” of place: the everyday as a critical entry point into place-making through gendered labour and practices; moving and settling through practices of care; and the multiplicity of often invisible borders and boundaries along the ways of mobility in the age of globalisation. It underlines the relations of power involved, as they take shape along the lines of gender, ethnicity and other axes of inequality, and at different and interlocking scales.
