So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’

McCleery, Alison

Abstract

This paper investigates place and positionality in the regional novel against a background of evolving trends in geographical scholarship of place and placelessness. In re-examining the representation of Glasgow in the urban regional novel, it proposes that a qualitative difference exists between rural and urban epistemologies which relates to the profoundly temporal essence of 'cityness'. Aspects of both multi-dimensionality in urban time-space and of the city as the locus for working-class oppression are reviewed in the context of a selection of urban imaginings.

Citation

McCleery, A. (2004). So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’. Scottish Geographical Journal, 120(1-2), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00369220418737189

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Feb 27, 2008
• Publication Date: 2004-01
• Deposit Date: Apr 14, 2008
• Journal: Scottish Geographical Journal
• Print ISSN: 1470-2541
• Electronic ISSN: 1751-665X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 120
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 3-18
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00369220418737189
• Keywords: place; positionality; identity; situated knowledges; (urban) regional novesl; Glasgow; time-space; city
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2226
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00369220418737189