In the "Landscape as provocation" article, Doreen Massey presents an interesting critique of "dwelling-perspective" approaches to place and landscape, suggesting that the "inward-lookingness" of place-oriented approaches may consyitute a dead end- and limiting oneself to the "largely quotidian intimacies of the taskscape" (Ingold) may be too limited. She advocates an anti-foundationalism (challenging the popular "First Nature Politics" - the nostalgic idea that the world was a paradise prior to human intervetions). She advocates an "unsettling of the notion of place" and the idea of settledness, groundedness itself. This critique goes to the very heart of what we have been discussing this semester I think. Thoughts?
What is the significance of the "event" in the constitution of places? At the end of her article Massey points to an understanding of both place and landscape as "events" as happenings as moments that will be again dispersed. How would this relate to Beck et al's concept of the event in archaeological contexts (specific, contingent, contextual)? What are event-places?