ABSTRACT
There has been theoretical ‘efflorescence’ (Agnew, 2005, p. 82) around the concepts of space and place in recent decades. The polarisation between these two concepts has permeated many debates within geography as well as other theoretical fields in both the natural and human sciences, 1 revealing many similarities in and exchanges between the metaphors used and the philosophical references employed, although for different aims. This conceptual opposition frequently underlies theorisations that treat space and place separately, as if the characteristics of space could not also be attributed to place, and vice versa, and often appears to be constructed on the basis of a more or less explicit antinomy with the excluded term, showing the utility of a separate consideration to be ambiguous, at best.
