Insider and Outsider Perspectives On Place

Question 1

Whats placelessness

Answer 1

Idea that a particular landscape e.g airport terminal , could be anywhere as it lacks uniqueness

Question 2

What do places with placelessness lack

Answer 2

Uniqueness

Question 3

When does placelessness occur

E.g

Answer 3

When global forces have a greater influence on shaping a place than local factors

E.g British high streets are predominantly chain stores

Question 4

Example of a special place and 2 reasons why

Answer 4

Mount snowdon

Highest peak in England + wales
Everyone can access
Meaningful to Welsh
Memorable event
Peaceful, calming summit

Question 5

What’s the tourist gaze

Answer 5

When business entrepreneurs manipulate the public’s sense of place

Question 6

What sites are even managed by tourism professionals
E.g
How do they do this

Answer 6

Death sites
E.g ground zero

Mediate our experience of a place by choosing what visitors can access

Question 7

Why will each visitors senses be attuned differently

Answer 7

As they see location through prior experiences, religious beliefs, moral code, family history, ethnicity and education

Question 8

What can people’s different perceptions of place even lead to

Answer 8

Conflict

Question 9

When did ground zero suffer dramatic changes

Answer 9

In the last 15years

Question 10

What’s the word for a love of place or strong sense of place

Answer 10

Topophilia

Question 11

What’s the word for a dread/adverse reaction of place

Answer 11

Topophobia

Question 12

What does importance of place in human life increase with as we learn more

Answer 12

Age

Question 13

What are you more to a place , the more intense your experience

Answer 13

Attached

Question 14

How do people identify themselves to a place

Answer 14

Usually connected to a place e.g country/region, sporting events (World Cup - England, Olympics - GB)

Question 15

If we have a strong sense of place what can it feature in

Answer 15

Our identity

Question 16

What can affect people and their identity

E.g

Answer 16

Changing in nature of places

E.g football defeat

Question 17

Define location

Answer 17

Where a place is on a map, its latitude and longitude

Question 18

Define locale

E.g

Answer 18

What each place is made up of (series of locales) where everyday life activities take place.
E.g park, office, home

Question 19

What do locales help to forge for people

E.g

Answer 19

Values, attitudes, behaviours

E.g we behave in a certain way due to school rules

Question 20

Define sense of place

Answer 20

Personal and emotional attachment to place, it’s meaning

Question 21

Define perception of place

Answer 21

The way in which place is viewed/regarded by people

Question 22

2 main things that can influence our perception of place

Answer 22

Media representation

Personal experience

Question 23

Define place

Answer 23

A location with meaning

Question 24

Define placemaking

Answer 24

Deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction + improve a communities quality of life

Question 25

What are the 3 approaches to place

Answer 25

Descriptive approach
Social constructionist approach
A phenomenological approach

Question 26

What’s a Descriptive approach to place

Answer 26

Idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied + is distinct

Question 27

What’s a Social constructionist approach

E.g

Answer 27

Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes e.g Trafalgar Square as a place if empire + colonialism

Question 28

What’s A phenomenological approach

Answer 28

Not interested in unique characteristics of a place of why it was constructed. Instead is interested in how an individual person experiences place

Question 29

5 factors that contribute to perspective of place

Answer 29

Weather
Reputation
Price
Distance + travel
Previous visits + memories
Views + landscape
Clean / dirty

Question 30

What’s an insider perspective

Answer 30

Perspective of someone who knows a place well and is familiar with not only it’s topography but it’s daily rhythms and events

Question 31

What’s an outsiders perspective

E.gs

Answer 31

Perspective of someone who doesn’t know a place well (e.g a visitor) or someone who is marginalised In a community (e.g homeless/people in minority groups)

Question 32

Where would an insider and an outsider be born

Answer 32

Insider - born in x/parents born there

Outsider - not born in x, they are immigrants and/or their parents + grandparents were immigrants

Question 33

What would an insider and an outsider’s status’ be

Answer 33

Insider - permanent resident. Holds passport of country x can work, vote, claim benefits (free housing, healthcare)

Outsider - temporary visitor. Holds foreign passport/ limited visa to stay in x. May not be able to work, vote, claim benefits. May be travelling for business/ work/ pleasure (asylum seeker)

Question 34

What would an insider and an outsider’s language capability be like

Answer 34

Insider - fluent in local language

Outsider - not fluent. Doesn’t understand local idioms (variations/slang)

Question 35

What would an insider and an outsider’s social interactions be like

Answer 35

Insider - understands unspoken rules of the society of x. Conforms to local norms

Outsider - frequently makes faux paus/ misunderstands social interactions

Question 36

What would an insider and an outsider’s state of mind be like

Answer 36

Insider - safe, secure, happy - feels at home/ ‘in place’ in country x

Outsider - homesick, alienated, in exile - feels ‘out of place’

Question 37

Example of some of the Britons that have been excluded from rural England
Why

Answer 37

Black + Asian people

Historically most immigrants moved to urban areas e.g Bradford, Leeds, London

Question 38

Who do people who feel alien/exotic compare themselves with

Answer 38

People who live in distant places

Question 39

What does people’s perceived distance prompt

Answer 39

A range of human behaviour - mildly mocking terms - racially motivated hate crime (racism)

Question 40

What does our understanding of what is near and far depend on

Answer 40

How we travel + how distance is measured