Place-Space Methodologies

This chapter explores the place-space methodology used in the book. It does this by providing details of the key theorisations of space and place. It starts with Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau exploring understandings of how space is materially experienced and the impact this has on daily life. Next, Milton Santos and Black feminist geographers highlight techniques and racialisation of space. Then the work of Doreen Massey, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari details the multiple, ephemeral, and complex nature of space and spaces and how these impact bodies. Conceptualisation of place is unpacked by scholars noting how place is not inert and a backdrop to human activity. Place has been contested by critical, feminist, and Indigenous scholars who propose more relational ways to view place as a site of human, non-human, and multispecies kin relationality. This chapter next moves to explore different dimensions of time and temporality, including pluriverse , multiverse , and feminist materialist relational time. At the end of the chapter, these key elements are drawn together to highlight the ways place-space methodologies have been articulated in the book.