Human Geo Final Flashcards
Anti-tourism
A tourist who deliberately seeks to avoid the sublime and even the commonplace tourist sites in order to know more about the underbelly of our world; the dirty, dangerous, the prohibited, and even the toxic landscapes
Dark tourism
Tourism that involves travelling to places associated with death and suffering
Territoriality
In political geography, a country’s or more local community’s sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended; an exertion of power and control over resources, people, and relationships
Ethology
The study of the formation and evolution of human customs and beliefs
Territorial aggression
Aggression demonstrated only in a particular, circumscribed area when approached; aggression with overcrowding and claims to space
Proxemics
The study of social and cultural meanings that people give to personal space; Personal Bubbles; unwritten rules about spacing
(S&C Needs) Territoriality provides
the regulation of social interaction, the regulation of access to people and resources, and the provision of a focus and symbol of group membership and identity
Ordinary landscape
everyday landscapes that people create/influence; come to symbolize entire nations/cultures (ex. Main St. of Middle America)
Don Mitchell
Believes that cultural geography should be more concerned with the social construction of the idea of culture; its deployment to serve specific interests in particular social economic, and political contexts; an instrument of social/cultural power
Commercial spaces
Places like a mall where messages are deployed through the landscape to promote consumption. The lighting, layout, and music of the store promote consumption. Process of sending signals to consumers about style, taste, and self-image.
Experiences and meaning of places
Interaction between people and places and meanings people attach to their experiences
Cognitive images
mental maps; psychological representations of locations that are made up from people’s individual ideas and impressions of these locations; representations of the world that can be called to mind through imagination
Distortion of cognitive images
due to incomplete information and biases
Cognitive images highly influences…but are subjected to…
behavior/personality/experiences, change
Coded spaces
Landscapes as text - can be read and written; do not come made with labels;
There are….who produce the meanings and…who consume meanings
Writers, Readers
Messages are read as
signs about values, beliefs, and practices
Semiotics
The practice of writing and reading signs
Signs are
embedded in landscape, space, and place - sending messages of identity, values, beliefs, and practices - sometimes too subtle to recognize
Signs may have
different meanings to different people
Places as objects of consumption
People’s enjoyment of material goods is also linked to the role of material culture as a social marker
Material consumption is linked to
symbols, beliefs, and practices of modern societies
Heritage industry
Re-creation and refurbishment of historic districts and settings that are subject to commercial exploitation - exclusionary
The economics of location
Patterns of regional economic development are historical in origin and cumulative in nature