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Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space

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Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space

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This chapter introduces the collection, marking out its key themes, contribution and significance. The collection’s key points of departure—place and space, interdisciplinarity, and the unsettled —are outlined. And the insights into place, space and the unsettled offered by the collection as a whole are delineated.

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Pinto, S., Hannigan, S., Walker-Gibbs, B., Charlton, E. (2019). Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space. In: Pinto, S., Hannigan, S., Walker-Gibbs, B., Charlton, E. (eds) Interdisciplinary Unsettlings of Place and Space. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6729-8_1

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