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In the first chapter, Digan gives a short introduction to concepts of space and place and discusses how they have been used in historiography. Identifying a lack of conceptual clarity and an absence of ‘space’ and ‘place’ in historiography, she seeks to find a working definition of the concepts. Following geographer John Agnew, she argues for a concept of ‘place’ that consists of three elements: place as a locale or backdrop, place as geographical location and a sense of place.
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For a more comprehensive study of the different uses of ‘space’ in philosophy, see Markus Schroer, Räume, Orte, Grenzen. Auf dem weg zu einer Soziologie des Raums (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag 2006)
and Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (Oakland: University of California Press 1997).
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Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay: An Essay in Spatial History (London: Faber and Faber 1987), p. XXIV.
John Agnew, Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society (Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin 1987), p. 28.
Allan Pred, ‘Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming Places’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 74(2) (June 1984): 279–297.
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Digan, K. (2015). An Introduction to Space and Place. In: Places of Memory: The Case of the House of the Wannsee Conference. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456427_2
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