The Concept of Places Flashcards
What is a place?
Referred to as a location with meaning.
What is locale?
a place where something happens or is set
What is sense of place?
The subjective & emotional attachment people have to a place.
What’s are experienced places ?
Places people have spent time in, a person’s experience who visits or lives in a place
What are media places? Give an example
Places that people haven’t been to, but have a sense of place through how they’ve been depicted in media.
For example, an image of the Caribbean is well depicted through holiday adverts
What is the perception of a place?
Someone’s opinion of a place without properly going there
What 5 factors make a ‘place’?
- it’s location
- physical characteristics
- human characteristics
- flows (eg. People, money etc)
- sense of place
Aspects of place constantly change. What is the only aspect that doesn’t?
Location
How can human characteristics of a place change over time?
- migration
- people dying and being born
- population
What is an outsider and what is an insider?
An insider is someone who feels they belong there and outsider doesn’t
Give an example of how a lived experience may be different to a media place.
The Caribbean may be advertised as a place of relaxation and serenity but for the people who live there it is a place of hardship and poverty
Explain why a media place may be very different to the lived experience of this place.
Because media may present a place in a particular way for a particular purpose
What term is used to describe how globalisation is homogenising distant places.
‘Placelessness’
Places can be categorised as near or far. List 3 reasons how globalisation has affected people’s experience of geographical distance.
- improvements in transport man far places are visited easily
- improvement in ict make media places VERY familiar
- internet allows people to remain closely connected to people
How do global companies make far and near places feel similar?
By having the same chain stores selling the same products
