Space/Place

Question 1

John Agnew (1987)

Answer 1

place consists of location - a point in space with specific relations to other points in space, locale - the broader context for social relations and sense of place - subjective feelings associated with a place

Question 2

Tim Cresswell

Answer 2

Place categories are not recognised discursively, place categories are acted upon, place produces an “order of things” and alternative actions in places challenge the “order-of-things”

Question 3

Pierre Bourdieu (1984; 1990)

Answer 3

claimed that categorisation schemes that remain unarticulated inculcate adherence to the established order of things. This is the case because categorisations in space and time, for the most part, are not recognised discursively but practically.

Question 4

Public Space

Answer 4

Public space is often simultaneously the site of the assertion of power and ideology by the nation state, corporations and local governments and counter-ideological practices. Just as power is spatialized as place is given meaning, resistance can take the form of spatialized disobedience.

Question 5

Wilson, 1991

Answer 5

A ‘feminine’ presence on the street, in public space, is often seen as threatening (Wilson, 1991)

Question 6

Valentine, 1996

Answer 6

Gill Valentine noted how parents associated public space with potential danger for their children, ranging from abduction to traffic accidents. She suggests that the equation of stranger = danger, in particular, helps to reproduce the idea of the street and public space in general as a space ‘populated by “deviant” others, a space in which the male body is saturated with threat and danger