Other categories of place Flashcards
Insider place
Someone who feels familiar in a place and therefore feels welcome
Outsider place
Someone who feels unfamiliar in a place and therefore feels unwelcome and excluded
Positionality
refers to the idea that individual differences (e.g. age, race, gender, sexual oreintation etc) impacts our perception of place
Examples of differing views of place
Mecca
For Muslims - religious worship
For non-Muslims - cultural and historic landmark
Near place
Geographically close place
Emotionally close place
Far place
Geographically far place
Emotionally far place
Near/ far place impacted by
Globalisation
Travel
Media
Experienced place
A place an individual has spent time in
Media place
A place an individual has seen in a film, or read about and therefore feels a connection to
Issues with media places
Idyllisation
Reality of some media places is much worse
E.g. English countryside has expensive property market, low income households and rural homelessness