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John A. Agnew is a prominent British American political geographer, 2003-2004 Guggenheim Award winner and currently Professor of Geography at UCLA. He has written widely on questions of territory, place, and political power. He is best known for his work completely reinventing "geopolitics" as a field of study and for his theoretical and empirical efforts at showing how national politics is best understood in terms of the geographical dynamics of "places" and how they are made out of both local and long-distance determinants. One of his best known books is "Place and Politics" (1987). Another is "Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics" (2003).
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In Place and Politics (1987), John Agnew contends that for a space to become a \'place\', three requirements need to be met :
- A specific location, something that answers the question, \'Where?\'
- A locale - the actual shape of the space, such as walls in a room or parks and streets in a city, etc
- A sense of place - the personal and emotional attachment people have to a space (or rather, place, now that the three requirements have been met)
["Place, A Short Introduction", Tim Cresswell]
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