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To Carve Something Meaningful

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“One of the most important functions of ‘place’
is its ability to bridge
the scholarly realm of the academic geographer
and everyday terrain of ordinary people
trying to understand the world
and make it better.
Without ‘place,’ geographers risk
losing their most important audience:
those engaged in the struggle
to carve something meaningful
out of an impersonal, abstract world.”1

  1. Steven Hoelscher, “Place,” in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography, ed. John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan (Chichester, West Sussex: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 256–57. ↩︎