ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the prospects of place-making in a culturally enmeshed and polyglot world, as marginalized populations struggle to build community and gain social and political standing. It argues for a re-imagining of place as a site where citizenship is negotiated through cross-cultural exchanges between different groups leading to new understandings to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for place dwellers and professionals alike. Conceptualizing place in this way points toward ‘emplaced’ forms of engagement where professionals situate themselves in settings of cultural exchange and expression that are unfamiliar, but vital to building trust and, ultimately, respect. Such emplaced practices make explicit the productive ways in which culture and power intersect, and draw attention to what is visible in the world and a world yet to be imagined that is unconstrained by existing social and cultural boundaries.
