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S ame, Other, NIMBY and an asylum by the sea: revisiting ‘ N ot at our seaside’
Author(s) -
Philo Chris
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12089
Subject(s) - parallels , nimby , opposition (politics) , biography , sociology , history , political science , law , art history , politics , ecology , mechanical engineering , engineering , biology
The author revisits his paper ‘ “Not at our seaside”: community opposition to a nineteenth‐century branch asylum’, published in A rea in 1987, beginning with a mini‐biography of the paper that explains something of how it sought to work between past and present (between historical and social geography). Attention is given to the paper's highlighting of parallels between older and more recent expressions of NIMBYism in the landscape of mental health provisions, and also to the undercurrents of the paper that sought to position such disputes within a bigger picture historical geography of ‘the S ame and the O ther’.