Space and spatial practice has emerged as one of the key themes in
the literature on modernity and postmodernity. Yet few attempts
have been made to survey the theoretical terrain of space and
modernity. Fewer still have endeavoured to apply this material in
the form of concrete analysis. "Places on the Margin" attempts to
correct the balance in three ways. First, it demonstrates the
mutual relevance of sociology and geography. Second, it outlines a
social theory of spatiality which focuses on the role of the
spatial in making up culture. Third, it offers four detailed and
penetrating case studies of the role of space in supporting social
activities: Brighton and its place image of the dirty weekend and
the beach riots of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s; the cultural
meaning of Niagara Falls; "the north-south divide" in Britain and
its role in national myths of British identity; and the Canadian
spatialization of the far North as the "true north strong and free"
- a zone of purity and otherness where the distinctions upon which
civilization is based break down.
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