Place Theory Flashcards
Define locale
A personal attachment someone has to a particular place.
Define sense of place
The cultures and social dynamics of a place
What is a media place?
A place familiar to a person through the media. They have not personally been there.
What is an experienced place?
A place that a person has visited.
What is a near place?
A geographically, emotionally near
What is a far place?
Emotionally, geographically far
Define insider
A person who knows a place very well, with detailed knowledge and understanding. Shared cultural norms with the people.
Define outsider.
A person who is not familiar with a place and doesn’t know the rhythms and norms of the area. Asks questions that and insider would not ask.
What is a descriptivist approach?
Idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct.
What is a social-constructivist approach
Sees a place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time
What is a phenomenological approach?
How an individual person experiences a place. Their personal relationship with a place.
Outline Topophobia and Topophilia
Yi Fu Tuan.
Topophobia - fear of a place.
Topophilia - love of a place.
How has globalisation affected near/far/media places?
Time space compression.
‘Shrinking world’ theory.
Global village.
How are media places unreliable portrayals?
Vested interest to sell?
Hide problems - rural idyl - more homelessness in rural areas.
Sense of place can change at different levels.
What are these levels?
Localism (gymkanas), regionalism (Cornish flag), nationalism (welsh signs, own national anthem).
What is Ethnography
A research method involving observing people in their own environment to understand their perspectives, actions and way of life.
What phrase was coined by Doreen Massey and WHEN?
‘A global sense of place’
1991
Define endogenous factors
Characteristics of a place that have originated internally
Define exogenous factors
Factors that have an external cause or origin.
What are the 6 endogenous factors?
Location
Land use
Demographic + economic characteristics
Physical geography
Built environment/infrastructure
What are the 6 exogenous factors?
Flow of people
Trade
Communication links
Government policies
Flow of capital
Flow of ideas
Define ‘agent of change’
Any group of people who work to impact a place through working there, living or trying to improve the place.
Outline some exogenous factors within Torquay.
£32 million regeneration of the town centre (2018)
Net loss of 15-19yr olds- outward migration.
Outline an exogenous factor impacting Eastleigh
Movement of Dinkys - dormitory town.
