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Place and Politics. The Geographical Mediation of State and Society
Nigel Thrift,John Agnew +1 more
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This article is published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 920 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mediation.read more
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A Space for Place in Sociology
TL;DR: Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same time there are far too many of them to fit in this review as discussed by the authors, and it may be a good thing that this research is seldom gathered up as a socology of place, for that could ghettoize the subject as something of interest only to geographers, architects, or environmental historians.
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Modeling Multilevel Data Structures
TL;DR: The logic and statistical theory behind multilevel models are introduced, to illustrate how such models can be applied fruitfully in political science, and to call attention to some of the pitfalls in multileVEL analysis.
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The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration
TL;DR: A critical reading of Sallie Marston's (2000) recent article in this journal on 'The social construction of scale', and a critical examination of the influential notion of a politics 'of'scale' are explored in this article.
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Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography
David Newman,Anssi Paasi +1 more
TL;DR: In the tradition of political geography, boundary analysis has focused on the international scale, since international boundaries provide perhaps the... as discussed by the authors, and state boundaries have constituted a major topic in political geography.
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Meanings of place: everyday experience and theoretical conceptualizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest an analytical framework for the understanding of what makes places meaningful, and suggest that the results of empirical studies need not be limited to special places, but may also contribute to more general empirical and theoretical discussions regarding the roles and meanings of place in contemporary society.