Overview
Provides a rich and in-depth account of place and place-making in one marketplace focusing on London’s Borough Market
Discusses the premise that market-processes- the negotiation and exchange of commodities- are place processes
Explores the complex material, social-sensual and discursive interactions that assemble to not only make markets, but reproduce markets as places
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines place and place-making in London’s Borough Market. In particular, it uses topo/graphy (‘place-writing) to interrogate the ways in which Borough Market’s material, social-sensual and discursive relations assemble to reproduce Borough Market as a place, market and marketplace. Its central premise is that market-processes – the negotiation and exchange of commodities –are place-processes. This means that the often-abstract relationships that ultimately define what we think of as the economy are embedded in the rich and every materiality, sociality, sensuality and meanings associated with place. By tracing out these different elements, topo/graphy illustrates the ways in which economic reproduction is grounded in particular and often discrete practices. However, by assembling them together, this highlights the ways in which place and place-making are the driving force behind the economy at large.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ben Coles is a broadly trained economic and political geographer who researches the intersections between commodities and markets, and marketplaces, with a particular focus on food. Ben is affiliated to the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester, UK. He has a Ph.D. in Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London, and degrees from the University of Kansas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Markets Making Place
Book Subtitle: Geography, Topo/graphy and the Reproduction of an Urban Marketplace
Authors: Benjamin Coles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72865-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72864-9Published: 04 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72867-0Published: 04 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72865-6Published: 03 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 160
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)