Adams, Hoelscher, and Till's
Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies originated in a 1998 special session celebrating Tuan's retirement and critiquing and updating his work; the essays include students of Tuan's, later geographers, and people who aren't geographers at all but who appreciate his work. In their intro, the editors revise and add to humanist geography's subjective conception of place by
- setting up a dialectic between physical places and human experience of/ apprehension of/ construction of places
- rejecting the search for universal understandings of place (a la Tuan) in favor of multiple meanings shaped by both individual subjectivities and social differences, including race, class, gender, and sexuality
- putting places in social, geographical, and historical context
