Rhetoric and a Sense of Place

Here's an invitation for students of rhetoric:

A research program about leisure and the politics of place awaits development, but should focus on language and discourse, and should begin with the question: how are leisure places socially constructed with political consequences?

Stokowski, Patricia A. "Languages of Place and Discourses of Power: Constructing New Senses of Place." Journal of Leisure Research 34, no. 4 (2002): 368.