Fitting into Place adopts a multi-dimensional interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting geographies and temporalities that re-constitute ‚city publics‘ – and the place of the ‚public sociologist‘. Class, race and gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where ‚future selves‘ are reconfigured in and through ‚local‘ and ‚global‘ sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the ‚past‘, to a current present and (imagined) ‚cosmopolitan‘ ‚regenerated‘ future. The rhetorics and vocabularies of place, as affective and material, suggest a more complex ‚fit‘ than the language of masculine ‚crisis‘ for past-times, or ‚feminised‘ fit into new-futures, suggests. Across the generations, women’s labour is still effaced as maps of loyalty hold up families as reference points of belonging and ‚fitting in‘; such architecture of place complicates reified ‚geographies of choice‘ which centre a middle-class mobile subject. Based upon funded empirical research, this book will be of interest to sociologists and geographers.
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