3.2.2 changing places Flashcards
What is location
Where a place is on a map, it’s latitude and longitude
What is locale
The place where something happens or is set, or that has particular events associated with it
What is Sense of place (place meaning)
The subjective and emotional attachment to a place, people develop a sense of place through experience and knowledge of a particular area
What is the importance of place
People define themselves through a sense of place and by living in places and carrying out a range of everyday practices there a person pace relationship is developed
What is attachment to a place influenced by
influenced by the depth of our knowledge and understanding of a place - this attachment increases with age as we learn more about our home
influenced by the quality or intensity of experience we have there. So the more enjoyable the experience or the greater degree to which we feel safe in a place (where all our need are met) the more attached we feel to it
how can the importance of place be explored
by looking at three aspects - identity, belonging and well-being
What is placemaking
the deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community’s quality of life
What is identity
Our sense of place, the meaning we give to a location
What may change or affect people and their identity
changes in nature of places (social, economic or environmental) e.g football fans confidence takes a hit when their team loses
what scales can identity be evident at
- Localism (an affection or emotional ownership of a particular place)
- Regionalism ( consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a population that shares similarities
- Nationalism (loyalty and deviation to a nation)
how has globalisation affected place
Some argue that globalisation has made place less important as the forces of global capitalism have eroded local cultures and produced identical or homogenised places.
This can be seen through the presence of global chains in high streets all over the world
what is a clone town
used to describe urban retail areas dominated by national (and some international) chain stores
What is placelessness
it could be anywhere because it lacks uniqueness
What is glocalization
Multinational companies are increasingly having to adapt to the local marketplace
What is belonging
To be part of a community, increasingly seen as one of the key factors to make a place sustainable and successful
What factors affect your sense or belonging
Age, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, religion, level of education
What is well being
Individuals have different views about what makes a place great, these features that are generally accepted to be more important in promoting wellbeing within a place
what is the difference between insider and outsiders
Insiders feel as though they belong and outsiders feel like they don’t belong
Characteristics of an insider
Born in X or their parents are born there, permanent resident, fluent in local language and understands unspoken rules of society
Characteristics of an outsider
Not born in X, they are an immigrant, temporary visitor, not fluent and doesn’t understand social interactions there
What is the difference between near and far places
Could refer to the geographical distance between places or could describe the emotional connection with a particular place and how comfortable a person feels within that place
What is the difference between experienced and media places
Experienced places are those places that a person has spent time in whereas media places are those that the person has only read about or seen on film or tv
Media representations and reality
In the so-information-age’, we are bombarded with images and other forms of representation of the world every single day
We have to sift through it to try to make sense of it all.
The representations of places that feature in the media often give contrasting images to those presented by official cartography, such as Ordnance Survey maps, or statistics, such as census data
Example of a experienced versus media place
Maya bay in Thailand, through the movie the Beach people expected it to be peaceful and tranquil however in reality it was crowded with up to 5,000 a day with boats damaging the ecosystems
What is character of a place
Refers to the physical and human geographic characteristics that distinguish a particular place
What determines the character of a place
Endogenous factors and exogenous factors
What are endogenous factors
Internal factors, local demographic characteristics and the physical geography of a place
What are exogenous factors
Some influences on places aren’t local, external factors e.g flows of people, resources, money and investment and ideas
what other concepts help shape place
Demographic and economic characteristics e,g census data
What are the theoretical approaches to place
- Descriptive approach : set places that can be studied
- social constructist approach : sees place as result of social processes happening at the time
- phenomological approach : how an individual experiences a place
