'Centres, networks, margins: European perspectives on space, identity and representation', a colloquium organized by the International Group for the Study of Representations in Geography, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, 5-7 September 1996

This point was emphasized in a colloquium on ’Centres, networks, margins’ organized by the International Group for the Study of Representations in Geography held at Royal Holloway, University of London, in September 1996, with support from both the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Group has been a focus of theoretical developments in cultural geography among Swiss, French and Italian geographers over the past decade, and this was the first of its biennial meetings to be held in an anglophone country with English-language scholars participating. All the 26 papers were in principle concerned with the ways in which the spaces and social identities of cities have been made and remade through communication and representation, both historically and in the contemporary world. The papers were grouped under three broad