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Granite and green: thinking beyond surface in place studies

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Through their dense range of empirical sortings, Kaufman and Kaliner, in this issue of Theory and Society, are effective in showing mechanisms through which places replicate themselves over time, but also in how their cultural and economic profiles can shift. Their work points to the utility of matched comparisons of historical interaction, both symbolic and material, as tool for understanding trajectories of stability and change.

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  1. See William Whewell as quoted in Gould 1986.

  2. Bruno Latour attributes the term “lash up” to John Law, who evidently used it in an early draft of a paper that was later published without it. See Law (1986).

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Molotch, H. Granite and green: thinking beyond surface in place studies. Theor Soc 40, 155–159 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-010-9134-0

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