ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors take a topic/theme which is central to cultural studies. They focus primarily on ideas about place and space. They look at the concept of place itself; different ways of representing place; writing the city as a site of difference; the city as walk poem; and how to shift a text between disparate times and spaces. The chapter brings theory and practice together in a particular way. The area of cultural studies in which space and place are most discussed is postmodern geography. A very important and influential idea in postmodern geography is that a place is never circumscribed, unidirectional or apolitical. Doreen Massey, for example, argues that a place does not have a single identity, and is not contained within physical boundaries. Roy’s description of Ayemenem is very explicit. But sometimes a sense of location is implicit and arises out of the activities, thoughts or feelings which occur within that place.
