Abstract
Place is always contested and constructed through multiple lived experiences and ways of being in the world. These worlds collide in places where differing relationships of place are practiced. Sometimes, these collisions result in overt conflicts. At other times, the tensions and marginalizations remain invisible. Power relations order such placed practices as variously “normal,” visible, marginal, or invisible. In so doing, they privilege some ways of being, knowing, and inhabiting place over others. A politics of place therefore encapsulates a relational spatial-temporal understanding of the power relations that construct and reconstruct place. It also captures the work that is done to maintain, disrupt, reconfigure, and/or reclaim the crisscrossing and always changing stories that comprise place.