Week 4

Question 1

Individual vs. collective (social constructivist) meaning creation examples

Answer 1

Individual: Tuan, Hidalgo and Hernandez
Collective: Castells, Giddens,

Question 2

“Identity creation is attempt to make sense of the world” Who said this?

Answer 2

Sum&Jessop

Question 3

Temporal Context

Answer 3

Meaning creation is dynamic because the world is dynamic due to globalization. Can live in one place for one year or 20 years the meaning to you will be different

Question 4

Spatial context

Answer 4

Meaning is created within a physical space

Question 5

Social context

Answer 5

Meaning is created with the social relationships people have

Question 6

Conscious and subconscious identity creation (Castells)

Answer 6

Conscious would be going to a yoga retreat on purpose

unconscious e.g. just not feeling at home somewhere.

Question 7

Gibbons:

Answer 7

Interactions with elements of world outside self is necessary to create meaning
social and spatial relations interact. e.g. NL more private than the US

Question 8

Lyotoard

Answer 8

The end of the great narratives. Not born into one ‘caste’ nowadays. Related to Giddens

Question 9

Giddens

Answer 9

Self reflexivity - meaning creation is reflexive - we mould it. There are way more possibilities today to mould your own meaning. It commonly refers to the capacity of an agent to recognize forces of socialization and alter their place in the social structure.
Low or high reflexivity: shaped a lot by society and environment or not a lot

Question 10

Gieryn 2000

Answer 10

Space is what places become when the unique gathering of things, meanings and values are sucked out.
There is no scale of place that has more meaning. e.g. nation not more than region

Question 11

Tuan

Answer 11

meanings change according to scale of place.
Experiential perspective: experience moulds sense of place

Modes of place: places are more tangible at lower scales while regions and nation-states are mostly symbolical as places: they are too large to know directly on a daily basis – dependent on processes of signification

Question 12

Hay

Answer 12

transient people like tourists don’t develop as much place attachment (individualistic sense of place view also example of it)

Question 13

Stedman: Three general stances on places

Answer 13

1. Direct effect model - essence of place is imbued in that place (genus loci)
2. Meaning mediated model - meanings are based on environmental attributes. Physical setting provides limits upon which meaning is created
3. Experiential model - experiences with landscape influence identity What is the difference between these two?. Basically saying place doesn’t matter for identity

Question 14

Genius loci

Answer 14

idea that you could describe a place and capture its essence

Question 15

Isachenko: Multilayered cultural landscapes

Answer 15

The top four are the range of mental layers and more subjective processes of a landscape.