Massey "A Global Sense of Place" Flashcards
What is Time-space compression according to Massey?
A new momentum in the process of internationalization. More interconnectedness and more mobility.
The processes that cause the relative distance between places (travel time and cost) to become smaller, so places grow closer.
Improvements in transport technology and digital communication.
The world becomes a smaller place.
What is Reactive action according to Massey?
Preserve. Make sure things stay the way they are.
What is Proactive action according to Massey?
Creating a change and changing places to have more future.
About bottom-up initiative.
Why is proactive action in The Netherlands often top-down?
Facilitating government. Things often need to be enabled or allowed. So not very often a true bottom-up initiative. It’s often a mix between bottom-up and top-down.
What is an example that is both progressive and reactive?
Pirate radio. They used to broadcast more modern music. They changed the music culture. But now pirate radio is more about traditional music. It’s all about the socio-spatial context.
What is the result of time-space compression?
It becomes more uncertain what we mean by places and how we relate to them.
What is Intermixing according to Massey?
Before places were inhabited by coherent and homogeneous communities. Now it’s more fragmented and disrupted.
Place and community only rarely have the same boundaries. but we are still longing for spatial disruption.
What is an example of sense of dislocation?
A street lined with products of cultural import (pizzeria, kebab). This was also felt in colonial times.
What is Power geometry according to Massey?
Different people experience places and processes like globalization in different ways. Some people are more in charge than others. Some people can initiate flows (like control distribution of goods, services, wealth, health and welfare). Some people receive it and some are imprisoned by it.
What is Social differentiation according to Massey?
Different degrees of movement and communication, but also in control and initiation.
Example: Refugees move a lot, but are not in control.
What is Differential mobility according to Massey?
Power over mobility for some can actively weaken the power of other people.
Why is a reactionary sense of place problematic?
- It’s hard to draw boundaries around a place
- It’s possible to feel the character of a place without being static or defensive
- Place is not the same as community. Communities can exist without being in the same place.
- The sense of place can be different for different people in that place
What is a progressive concept of place?
- Place is not static
- Place is about social interactions that tie together
- Places are processes
- Boundaries aren’t necessary for the conceptualization of place
- Places don’t have a single unique identity, but this doesn’t deny the importance of the uniqueness of a place
- You need to understand a place by linking it to other places (global sense of place)
