Place Representation Flashcards
Objective
Not influences by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts
Subjective
Based on personal opinion and feelings
Qualitative data
Information that is non-numerical and used in a relatively unstructured and open-ended way
Quantitative data
Data that can be quantified and verified, and is amenable to statistical manipulation
Name examples of quantitative data
Statistics, ONS, Census data, Ward profiles
Examples of qualitative data
Photographs, poetry, paintings, counter maps
How does map of Spitalfields Life produced by cartographer Adam Dant represent Spitalfields? How goods is it in providing a sense of place? What is portrayed on it?
This map details key locations within the Spitalfields area today, but also the historic background of a variety of places. It includes characters who have made this area special, ranging from artist Tracey Emin to Fred, the chestnut seller, while also portraying key locations such as Spitalfields market. Dant’s map provides a very strong sense of place.
What does the doorway off Brick Lane which shows the work of street artist STIK, depicting a burka-clad stick figure holding hands with a non burka-wearing stick figure, demonstrates?
It highlights the cultural diversity of the area
Lines where Sally Flood in her poem Brick lane underlines cultural diversity of the area
Brick Lane is a mixture
of aromatic spices
Curries, onions and bad drains,
Pakistani restaurants
Jewish trimming shops
Lines where Sally Flood outlines negative perception of the Brickk lane in her poem The Brick Lane I see
Where Workers are exploited
and small-time drug peddlers
sell their dreams
Outline how 2011 census data shows the cultural diversity of the Spitalfields
In 2011 residents of Bangladeshi origin accounted for 41 per cent of the population of Spitalfields and Banglatown, which is higher than the borough average.
Media places
Places we have not visited, but may have learned about through media representations
What is an example of media place? (England)
the countryside in the UK has
been ‘idyll-ised’ and countryside living has been stereotyped as involving a happy, healthy and close- knit community experiencing few of the problems of urban life in such television series such as Doc Martin
Example of a media place outside of the UK
Paris as a city of love and fashion, as portrayed in medias and for example in a recent series ‘Emily in Paris’, causing a set of articles such as ‘Why film and TV get Paris so wrong’
