Hello Victoria, If you haven't already done so you could look at the edited book The Anthropology of Space and Place, chapters include markets as public space in South America and gendered spaces in West Africa. Full details are: Low, S. and Lawrence-Zúñiga, D. Eds. (2003) The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Oxford: Blackwell. Best wishes Cathy Dr Catherine Palmer Anthropology: Heritage, identity, memorialisation, embodiment, tourism, the coast/seaside Deputy Director Postgraduate Studies – Arts and Humanities Joint series editor: Routledge Advances in Tourism Anthropology **NEW BOOK Being and Dwelling through Tourism: An anthropological perspective, Routledge** University of Brighton, UK Email: [log in to unmask] From: A forum for critical and radical geographers <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Victoria Okoye <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: Victoria Okoye <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Friday, 15 December 2017 07:44 To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: theories on place, space, public space from the global south Dear all, I recently joined this forum and have very much appreciated the opportunities, resources and insights everyone has shared so far. I'm a first year PhD student in Architecture at the University of Sheffield. I'm researching the knowledge, imagination and meanings that inform spatial appropriation of open, vacant and public spaces in West African cities (Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria). I previously worked on street and market vending, and I intend to think quite expansively - so to include activities such as the temporary occupation of streets for funerals and naming ceremonies, even appropriation of vacant buildings of plots by youth for football games, or usage of empty buildings for community gatherings, performances, meetings, etc. I have a request - I am at a moment where I am trying to read as much as possible about different relational approaches and understandings of space, place and public space (Henri Lefebvre, Yi-Fu Tuan, Doreen Massey, for example). I wanted to ask if anyone could share theorists, researchers, writers conceptualizing space from the global south? Anything from more historical conceptualizations of space, place and public space to more contemporary understandings would be incredibly appreciated. Thank you!! Best, Victoria -- Victoria Okoye Postgraduate Researcher, School of Architecture University of Sheffield [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.africanurbanism.net<http://www.africanurbanism.net/> twitter: @victoria_okoye<https://twitter.com/victoria_okoye> ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx