Publisher's Synopsis
This work questions what is meant by "place" in the context of a global world. Central to this is the impact of forced and unforced mass migration in recent years. Attachments to place and to a particular way of life provide a way of examining the issue of local identities in a shifting world. A range of place-specific concerns are considered, such as the problem of how we assume places to be settled, coherent and bounded in the context of the movement of peoples and the redrawing of boundaries. It is intended for first- and second-year human geography students at higher education institutions and as part of a broad-based social science degree or modular courses in sociology and politics.
