Concept Of Place Flashcards
5 things that make a place and what they are
Sense of place - emotional meaning to individuals
Physical characteristics - landscape
Human characteristics- who lives there and land use
Flows - money, people, resources
Location
How can physical characteristics change
Long time scale - volcanic eruption change landscape
Short time scale - rivers migrate
How can human characteristics change
Long time scale - lifetime, new people born and old die
Short time scale - migration
How flows can change
When TNC’s invest change flow of money or if an industry declines
How sense of place changes
As people grow up meanings change over time
What’s a share identity
People based their identity on places thy feel connected to, people with shared characteristics bind to create a shared identity
Scales of shared identity
Local - people in a village sharing same positive sense of that village
Regional - people sharing an accent from that region
National - sharing the nations language, religion or love for their nation
What’s an insider
Someone who is familiar with a. Place and feels welcome in that place with a sense of belonging
What is an outsider and an example
Someone who fees excluded from a place they don’t feel they belong there
Example - immigrants as they don’t share same values or beliefs
What’s an experienced place
Places where people have spent time in, lives or visits their so their experience shapes their sense of place e
What’s media places
Places that people have not been to but created a sense of Oma e through their depiction in media
Near place
Places geographically near a person, more likely to feel like an insider here
Far places
Places distant from a person lives, feel like an outsider
What is globalisation
Process of the worlds economies, political systems and cultures becoming more closely connected
How does globalisation effect sense of place
Improvement in travel - quicker to experience far places - experienced for freq
Improvements in IT means people are more familiar with media places
People more closely connected with people in different locations due to internet
