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The intricacies of one of the most relevant agricultural frontiers in the world today – the State of Mato Grosso, in the Brazilian Amazon – are considered through an examination of place-making. Vast areas of rainforest and savannah were converted, since the 1970s, into places of intensive farming, to fulfil exogenous demands for land and agricultural production. Instead of merely studying the constellation of interconnected places, we examine the politicised genesis of the emerging places and their trajectory under socio-ecological disputes. Empirical results reveal three main moments of place-making characterised, respectively, by displacement, replacement and misplacement. In order to understand those intricate processes, it is necessary a qualitative intellectual jump: from place-making on the frontier to place-making as an ontological frontier in itself. Mato Grosso remains an unsettled frontier between a new socio-spatiality (shaped by fast economic growth) and the perpetuation of old practices (marked by exclusion and tensions).

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Since its very inception, the field of social work has acknowledged the importance of place in shaping communal identity, construing shared meanings and generating collective actions. Nevertheless, the analytical framework of place-making, which enjoys growing interest in other disciplines, has little impact on social work and its incorporation into social work community practice is still embryonic. The place-making perspective is particularly relevant to the multiple challenges faced by community practice in the twenty-first century. This qualitative study aims to encourage the inclusion of place-making analytical perspective in community practice research by examining community practitioners' engagement in place-making processes within the complex context of Israeli Jewish–Arab mixed cities. Based on semi-structured interviews with thirty community practitioners in the public services, the findings reveal that participants were highly engaged in four main interrelated aspects of place-making: shaping the ethnocultural meanings of place, managing the meaning of space in power relations, re-constructing the conflicted meaning of space and framing the history of place. The study illustrates the usefulness of the place-making analytical framework in community practice, especially in the context of increasing contested and divided urban realities.

This paper examines the politics of place making in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, pan of an emerging network of production centers in South China. Rapidly developed from a border town to a major city through transnational linkages of capital and kinship, the zone is a desired destination for migrant youth from all over China searching for work and experiences in the city. Temporary workers make up 66 percent of the Shenzhen population, yet many lack the proper skills and cultural •capital• to compete in the transitional economy. Authorities ' attempts to forge a collective sense of place among its diverse immigrant groups have been largely unsuccessful, as Shenzhen is n o t one but many places shaped by differences of class, native place, and household registration status.

Explores the concepts of networks & flows & their value to environmental social sciences. While the utility of the flows perspective is noted, dangers accompanying the sociology of global environmental flows are acknowledged, particularly the potential for the flows perspective to develop into an overly fluid, phenomenological perspective on globalization that ignores issues of power & inequality. A more grounded & more sociologically nuanced view of the environment-globalization relationship is pursued. In light of this, proposed is a bottom-up approach to globalization that sheds light on the power characteristics of global-local relationships in environmental governance. The concepts of "scale-making" & "place-making projects" are advanced. Various categories of environmental flows are identified, & the political, power-bound character of flows is described. Various empirical examples are used to demonstrate the negative impact that global-level activity can have on local structures, identities, & power. References. D. Edelman

Explores the concepts of networks & flows & their value to environmental social sciences. While the utility of the flows perspective is noted, dangers accompanying the sociology of global environmental flows are acknowledged, particularly the potential for the flows perspective to develop into an overly fluid, phenomenological perspective on globalization that ignores issues of power & inequality. A more grounded & more sociologically nuanced view of the environment-globalization relationship is pursued. In light of this, proposed is a bottom-up approach to globalization that sheds light on the power characteristics of global-local relationships in environmental governance. The concepts of "scale-making" & "place-making projects" are advanced. Various categories of environmental flows are identified, & the political, power-bound character of flows is described. Various empirical examples are used to demonstrate the negative impact that global-level activity can have on local structures, identities, & power. References. D. Edelman

This solidly grounded and policy-focused study on the urban policy of place-making analyses the management for knowledge-intensive cities. This book highlights best practices for different contexts in managing knowledge-intensive cities and draws on the experiences of thirteen European urban regions, examining policies and new and unique data obtained from policy makers.

The paper explores how valuing devices and verification mechanisms such as user-generated content (UGC) websites partake in performing placeness. The findings are based upon a corpus of data including a case study at the offices of the largest user-generated travel website, TripAdvisor, a longitudinal netnographic approach and a conceptual review. Originally inspired by theorists of space we treat places as sites of becoming that are performed through everyday practices. In claiming that places become meaningful only in and through practices we stress the importance of treating rating and ranking mechanisms as generative, rather than merely reductive algorithmically produced representations. By juxtaposing traditional enactments of traveling, we are discussing how placeness has been transformed and how this has fueled a series of further revisions to valuing tourism. We conclude the paper by appreciating the multiplicity of performativity as being implicated in the algorithmic configurations on contemporary valuing devices and enacted as we read, interpret, write, imagine. It is suggested that although earlier valuing devices have evoked place-making in various ways, the rise of UGC websites has converted the travel experience into a constant negotiation process whereby both the value of places and the value of valuing devices are contested.

AbstractIn this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities – Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient dimensions of migrants' religious place making – embodied performance, the spatial management of difference and belonging, and multiple embedding across networked spaces. Although these three dimensions intersect in dynamic, often tensile ways to constitute the fabric of the life world of migrant minorities, we separate them for heuristic purposes to highlight the richness and texture of religious place making.

This article introduces a collection of case studies on the politics of borders and the place-making processes in Southeast European border environments. It opens with explorations of how the social analysis of borders oscillates between border studies and border theory, and between the study of borders as things and as ideas. The focus on the territoriality of borders, analyzed as dynamic social-spatial formations, is proposed as a meeting point between the two approaches. On this premise, this article examines some key elements in contemporary ethnographic research on borders in Southeastern Europe.

Industrie 4.0 gilt heute als digitale Revolution in der industriellen Fertigung, die menschliche Arbeit tiefgreifend verändert. Dabei ist Industrie 4.0 ein technologiepolitischer Leitbegriff, der für ein Bündel von Prozessinnovationen steht, die auf früheren Automatisierungs- und Digitalisierungsschritten in der Industrieproduktion aufbauen. Dieser Artikel erörtert, inwiefern Raum bisher und gegenwärtig für die Digitalisierung der Fertigungsarbeit eine Rolle spielt. Konkret steht die raumwissenschaftliche Sicht auf regionale Disparitäten, die Perspektive auf räumliche Abhängigkeiten sowie die Sicht auf Place-Making im Vordergrund. Eine Literaturschau, die raumbezogene Studien über Automatisierung und frühere Digitalisierung in der Industrieproduktion in den letzten fünfzig Jahren aufgreift, zeigt diese unterschiedlichen epistemischen Perspektiven auf und liefert Evidenzen für räumliche Implikationen von Industrie 4.0. ; Industry 4.0 is considered a digital revolution in industrial manufacturing that is profoundly changing human labour today. At the same time, Industry 4.0 is a key term of tech-nology policy that stands for a bundle of process innovations based on earlier automation and digitalization in industrial production. This article discusses how over time and recently space and place have played a role in this context. Particularly, the contribution highlights perspectives on regional disparities, on spatial dependencies and on place-making. A literature review on automation and earlier digitalization in manufacturing during the last five decades provides evidence of spatial issues relevant for recent digitalization of manufacturing and related implications for human labour.

This paper investigates young people living in a regional Australian town and explores the ways that they negotiate place-making using mobile media. Australia has been characterised as a country of vast distances, and young people living in rural and regional areas are at the centre of narratives that position digital technologies as enablers or disruptors. This paper puts such deterministic discourses aside to focus on the ways place is made by young people living outside the city according to their own perspectives and experiences. Focus groups with 62 participants aged 16–28 years pointed to many of those in-the-background place-making practices and signalled the near seamless way that making places was simultaneously done online as well as in material, face-to-face contexts. The forms of place made by the young people of this study comprised a range of elasticised neighbourhoods and public spaces that were materially anchored, though extended digitally through territorially embedded socialities and shared locational information. Regional geographies retained their meaning, though traditional constraints could be renegotiated to reflect youthful relationships with local place.

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Thematik der sogenannten Raumkonstitution. Am Beispiel eines Kunstprojekts, das vor einigen Jahren im East End von Glasgow durchgeführt wurde, wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie Räume und Identitäten durch alltägliche Praktiken konstituiert werden. Zu diesem Zweck wird – in Anlehnung an Überlegungen des Soziologen Michel de Certeau – ein praxistheoretisches Modell skizziert, das es ermöglicht, alltägliche Praktiken als Praktiken des Gebrauchs von etwas in den Blick zu nehmen. Die sozialen Praktiken der Raumproduktion, die sich im Fallbeispiel beob- achten lassen, werden vor diesem Hintergrund verstehbar als Gebrauch des Kunstprojekts und ein Operieren mit dem Kunstprojekt. Der Mehrwert dieser Perspektive zeigt sich gerade im Kontext der Stadtforschung, wo sich, womöglich im Zuge der neoliberalen Stadtpolitik, eine "top-down"-Perspektive etabliert hat, die sich vor allem für die Frage interessiert, wie Räume in strategischer Absicht von machtvollen Akteuren produziert oder konstruiert werden. Demgegenüber lädt das hier entwickelte Modell dazu ein, die Praktiken der "kleinen Leute" ernst zu nehmen und in den Dimensionen der Realisierung, Aneignung, Allokution und Verzeitlichung in die Analyse einzubeziehen.

This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically 'read that world.'