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

McCleery, Alison

Authors

Alison McCleery



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