Changing Places Key Terms Flashcards
Place
A location with a meaning and emotional connections - subjective.
Space
A one dimensional, physical location.
Location
Where a place is on a map, it’s longitude and latitude
Locale
A series of settings that make up a place, where everyday life activities take place (office, park, home, school).
Sense of place
Subjective, emotional attachment to a place; it’s meaning
Placelessness
The idea that a landscape may be “anywhere” as it lacks uniqueness. Leads to clone town effect.
Out of place
When behaviour that differs from the “norm” and dominant groups who have economic, social and political power make these groups feel uncomfortable.
Identity
Develops on a range of scales:
-Localism: affection for a particular place (home).
-Regionalism: loyalty to a distinct region (Yorkshire)
-Nationalism: loyalty and devotion to a nation or country (UK)
Belonging
People who belong to a place feel part of a community. This is influenced by a number of factors including age, gender, sexuality, religion etc..
Migration is making many parts of the world more ethnically and culturally diverse.
Placelessness (Edward Relph)
Loss of u uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.
Clone town
A town with no individuality as high street shops have been replaced by a monochrome strip of chain shops.
Insider
Insiders feel like they belong to a place.
Not restricted to a geographical location, but refers to groups of people/activities/events.
Outsider
Groups if people are treated as outsiders (travellers, protesters, LGBT, Women and migrants)
Near place
Somewhere a person feels comfortable as it feels familiar due to personal experience.
Far place
Somewhere a person feels uncomfortable as they’ve got little personal experience of the area.
Experienced place
Places that a person has spent time in (home, holiday destination)
Media places
Places a person has read about or seen on TV.
Character
Physical and human characteristics that help distinguish one place from another.
Endogenous
Characteristics that have originated internally (penistone is a market town).
Exogenous
External characteristics.
Agents of change
The people who impact a place whether through living, working or trying to improve that place (residents or government)
Perception of place
What people have heard, read or seen about a place.
Meaning
Individual or collective perception of place.
Place memory
The ability of a place to make the past come to life in the present.
