Changing Places: Key words Flashcards
Agents (forces) of change
The people who impact on a place through working, living or improving that place
Big data
Extremely large data set from which we can learn a great deal with effective analysis
Endogenous factors
Internal characteristics of a place
Exogenous factors
The relationship of a place with other places
Experienced places
Places that a person has spent time in
Character
Physical and human features that help make a place different to another place
Infrastructure
Services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions
Location
Where a place is
Locale
The place where something happens, is set or has particular events associated with it (a house, park, office)
Perception of place
the way in which a place is viewed or regarded by people (influenced by the media or personal experiences)
Place
A location that has meaning (given by people)
Place-making
deliberate shaping of an environment to meet needs for social interaction and improve community’s quality of life
Sense of place
subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place (developed through experience and knowledge of the place)
Localism
Love or loyalty to a particular place
Regionalism
Love or loyalty to a particular region
Nationalism
Love or loyalty to a particular nation
Clone town
A town that is not significantly different from another (has same shops)
Homogenised
To make uniform or similar
Glocalisation
Adapting a business to make it do well in a country e.g. McRice
Belonging
To be part of the community
Texts
A source for analysis: texts used by cultural geographers include works of art and films, as well as written sources like novels and songs
Tourist gaze
What a visitor sees or experiences about a place of interest (e.g. historic site). To some extent it is organised by professionals in the tourist industry
Transition Town movement
Initiative that puts emphasis on community involvement
Insider
To belong and identify with a place
Other
Someone or something that is different, alien or exotic. A person living in a distant place may be described as ‘other’ by individuals or society, as a result of the perceived contrast between ‘them’ and ‘us’
Positionality
Refers to factors such as gender, race, age, religion and socio-economic status
Quantitative
Numerical data to which different techniques of statistical analysis may be applied to test significance
Qualitative
Data that can be organised into descriptive categories that are not numerical; such data may include oral sources such as interviews, songs, poems and visual artistic impressions
Space
The three dimensional surface of the earth; further defined by human geographers as a container in which objects are located and human behaviour is played out
Outsider
Someone who feels homesick, alienated or excluded by society in a specific place, for example in a work or study environment as a result of constructed barriers
Placelessness
The idea that a particular landscape could be anywhere because it lacks unique features. E.g. high streets with identically branded chain stores
Far (distant) place
Somewhere that an individual perceives as being physically distant, generally inaccessible. Can be shaped by networks of infrastructure. (transport, communication)
