Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long? This volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship. 'Together, the chapters in Touching Space, Placing Touch challenge the scopophilia that animates much of geographic inquiry, from key concepts to methodological frameworks and techniques. Here, touch takes hold of the geographic imagination, reworking our understanding not only of bodies and environments, but such fundamental questions as what does it means to locate, to connect and to become intimate with? Engagingly written, Touching Space, Placing Touch uses a series of empirically rich analyses to unfold these questions, providing in the process a "grounding" of affect, aesthetics, corporeality, embodiment, performance and materialism that manages to offer a radical intellectual agenda whilst remaining accessible.' Deborah Dixon, Aberystwyth University, UK