Making Place

Arijit Sen is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is editor (with Jennifer Johung) of Landscapes of Mobility: Culture, Politics, and Placemaking.Lisa Silverman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars and editor (with Deborah Holmes) of Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity.

• Introduction Embodied Placemaking: An Important Category of Critical Analysis Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman1. Placemaking and Embodied SpaceSetha Low2. Visualizing the Body PoliticSwati Chattopadhyay3. Inside the Magic Circle: Conjuring the Terrorist Enemy at the 2001 Group of Eight SummitEmanuela Guano4. Eating Ethnicity: Spatial Ethnography of Hyderabad House Restaurant on Devon Avenue, ChicagoArijit Sen5. Urban Boundaries, Religious Experience, and the North West London EruvJennifer A. Cousineau6. "Art, Memory, and the City" in Bogotá: Mapa Teatro's Artistic Encounters with Inhabited PlacesKaren E. Till7. Jewish Memory, Jewish Geography: Vienna before 1938Lisa Silverman

"Rich, diverse, and provocative meditations on place and identity formation . . . it builds on the previous scholarship on bodies, memory and place while also moving our understanding of this theme in a refreshing and engaging direction: toward the embodied, performed, and lived dimension of built environment, in both historical and contemporary perspectives."—Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia"Positioned in a growing anthropological and geographical literature that approaches social space as the product of movement, action, and experience, [and specifically] concerned with how built environments are realized as social spaces."—Stuart Rockefeller, Columbia University