By focusing anew — and from the perspective afforded by the critiques of place themselves — on the continued vitality of place and place-making for culture, nature, and economy. Restoring some measure of symmetry, as we shall see, does not entail an erasure of space as a domain of resistance and alterity, since both place and space are crucial in this regard, as they are in the creation of forms of domination." (Escobar 2001:141)
Local people's engagement with the landscape, in some Andean communities for instance, reveals that the landscape is endowed with agency and personhood" (Escobar 2001:146)