Importance Of Place Flashcards
What is Location
Where a place is physically eg on a map
What is Locale
The effet people have on a place eg culture and customs
What is sense of place
Emotional attachement people have to a place
What is topophilia
The affective bond between people and place or setting
What is topophobia
A hatred of a place
What is a cultural sense of place
A sense of place that is possessed by a certain group of people and can change between groups
Definition of a descriptive approach to place
The world is a set of places and each is distinct
Definition of a social constructionist approach to place
A place is a product of a set of social processes occurring at a place
Definition of a phenomenological approach to place
How individuals experience a place
What is positionality
Factors such as age, race and religion which affect how we experience a place
Summarise Jon Anderson’s ideas about traces of place
Material= things that are man made Non-material= events such as protests
Insider perspective
Part of the community
Knows a lot about a place
Outsider perspective
Tourists/migrants
No attachment to a place
Experience vs media place
Experienced= someone has physically spent time there Media= only seen through media eg tv or magazine
Example of a dynamic place
China has a growing middle class therefore outsourcing tourism
