Modern place is a local expression of distant, disembedded relations

Evidence

The primacy of place in pre-modern settings has been largely destroyed by disembedding and time-space distanciation. Place has become phantasmagoric because the structures by means of which it is constituted are no longer locally organised. The local and the global, in other words, have become inextricably intertwined. Feelings of close attachment to or identification with places still persist. But these are themselves disembedded: they do not just express locally based practices and involvements but are shot through with much more distant influences. Even the smallest of neighbourhood stores, for example, probably obtains its goods from all over the world. The local community is not a saturated environment of familiar, taken-for-granted meanings, but in some large part a locally-situated expression of distanciated relations. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 260

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Phantasmagoric place’ maps onto the reader’s interest in how Darlington Hall appears local and anchored while actually being constituted by global, distanciated power relations. — connects to: Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 24; Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131; Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 166 (+12 more)

Related

• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity (similarity 0.89)
• Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them (similarity 0.87)
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life (similarity 0.86)
• Modernity transforms both global interconnection and the most intimate personal life (similarity 0.86)
• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing (similarity 0.85)
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation (similarity 0.84)
• Declaring oneself host of a locale legitimizes initiating contact there (similarity 0.84)
• Microsociology’s localism fails once interaction is disembedded from physical place. (similarity 0.81)
• Pre-modern trust is anchored in local place rather than abstract systems. (similarity 0.79)
• Modern organizations routinely connect local and global, affecting millions of lives (similarity 0.79)
• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems (similarity 0.79)
• Modernity transforms the stranger from a whole suspect person into a fleeting contact. (similarity 0.78)
• Globalisation is the networked stretching of social relations across the earth’s surface (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individualization loosens ties with the near to enable ties with the distant #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 603
• Impersonal modern systems paradoxically enable reembedding of local personal life #expands (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 342
• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing #expands (0.65) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 343
• Social unity is felt through concrete relations rather than abstract awareness #complicates (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 169