Professor Jean Hillier is Associate Dean, Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia, Emma Rooksby is based in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (an ARC-funded special research centre) at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is also Visiting Fellow at The University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, Australia.

Contents: Introduction to Second Edition: Committed scholarship, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby; Introduction to First Edition, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby; Habitus, Pierre Bourdieu. Politics of Space and Place: Democracy and the question of power, Ernesto Laclau; Politics: territorial or non-territorial?, Paul Hirst; Toleration and the art of international governance: how is it possible to 'Live Together' in a fragmenting international system?, Grahame F. Thompson; Which kind of public space for a democratic habitus?, Chantal Mouffe; Metropolitan liberalism and colonial autocracy, Barry Hindess; Governmentality and regional economic strategies, Joe Painter. Process of Place-Making: Mind the gap, Jean Hillier; Place, identity and governance: transforming discourses and practices, Patsy Healey; Difference, fear and habitus: a political economy of urban fears, Leonie Sandercock; Spectral cities: where the repressed returns and other short stories, Steve Pile; Crime and the design of the built environment: Anglo-American comparisons of policy and practice, Ted Kitchen and Richard H Schneider; The silent complicity of architecture, Kim Dovey; Belonging: towards a theory of identification with space, Neil Leach. Decolonising Spatial Habitus: Placemaking as project? Habitus and migration in transnational cities, John Friedmann; Enduring landscape, changing habitus: the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia, Roxana Waterson; The endurance of Aboriginal women in Australia, Fay Gale; Belonging, naming, and decolonisation, Val Plumwood. Conclusions, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby; Index.