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This text introduces students of human geography to the fundamental concept of place, marrying everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have grown up around it. A short introduction to one of the most fundamental concepts in human geographyMarries everyday uses of the term 'place' with the more complex theoretical debates that have grown up around itMakes the debates intelligible to students, using familiar stories as a way into more abstract ideasExcerpts and discusses key papers on place by Doreen Massey and David HarveyConsiders empirical examples of ways in which the concept of place has been used in researchTeaching and learning aids include an annotated bibliography, lists of key readings and texts, a survey of web resources, suggested pedagogical resources and possible student projects Tim Cresswellis Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of In Place / Out of Place (1996) and The Tramp in America(2001). He is also the co-editor of Mobilizing Place. Placing Mobility(2003) and Engaging Film(2002).

International audience ; This paper examines the regulation of ballroom dancing in England in the first four decades of the 20th century. It demonstrates how various forms of dance considered to be 'American', particularly the 'shimmy', were labelled as degenerate and threatening, and how the newly formed Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing and the dance master and band leader Victor Silvester sought to produce a thoroughly regulated and encoded 'English' style of ballroom dancing. The paper charts the various strategies of representation and standardization that were used to enact this regulation of corporeal mobility. Theoretically the paper argues for an interpretive approach to bodily movement that considers bodily movement in the context of wider contexts of cultural geographies of mobility. In so doing it contributes to a growing body of work on the politics of mobility in the modern West and, particularly, the cultural politics of dance.

This paper examines the regulation of ballroom dancing in England in the first four decades of the 20th century. It demonstrates how various forms of dance considered to be 'American', particularly the 'shimmy', were labelled as degenerate and threatening, and how the newly formed Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing and the dance master and band leader Victor Silvester sought to produce a thoroughly regulated and encoded 'English' style of ballroom dancing. The paper charts the various strategies of representation and standardization that were used to enact this regulation of corporeal mobility. Theoretically the paper argues for an interpretive approach to bodily movement that considers bodily movement in the context of wider contexts of cultural geographies of mobility. In so doing it contributes to a growing body of work on the politics of mobility in the modern West and, particularly, the cultural politics of dance.

Preliminary Material /Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell -- Preface /Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell -- Introduction: Theorizing Place /Tim Cresswell -- Heading for Europe: Tourism and the Global Itinerary of an Idea /Ginette Verstraete -- Imagined Homelands: Re-mapping Cultural Identity /Ernst van Alphen -- Touring, Routing and Trafficking Female Geobodies: A Video Essay on the Topography of the Global Sex Trade /Ursula Biemann -- The Search for Well Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity /Laurel C. Smith -- Being Elsewhere: The Politics and Methods of Researching Symbolic Exclusion /Nick Couldry -- Remaining Where You Are: Kincaid and Glissant on Space and Knowledge /Isabel Hoving -- Immersion and Distance in Virtual Spaces /Renée van de Vall -- No-Man's-Land?: Five Short Cases on Deserts and the Politics of Place /Inge E. Boer -- Whither the World?: Presence, Absence and the Globe /Kevin Hetherington -- The Contributors /Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell -- Index /Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell.

Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this volume focuses on the intersection of mobility, social justice and gender. The authors reflect on five highly interdependent mobilities that form and reform social life: *