What Is Place?

Question 1

What is a ‘near’ or ‘far’ place?

Answer 1

Could refer to geographical distance between places
Or
Could describe the emotional connection with a particular place and how comfortable a person feels in that place

Question 2

What is positionalitiy and its factors?

Answer 2

Different people will perceive places in different ways

Gender
Age
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
Socio-economic status
Politics

Question 3

What is an experienced place?

Answer 3

A place that a person has spent time in that has shaped their sense of that place

Question 4

What is a media place?

Answer 4

A place where someone has never been, but their sense of place is shaped by the media eg) films, tv, books, poems.

Question 5

What are exogenous factors?

Answer 5

Exogenous factors are defined as the relationships of one place with other places and the external factors which affect this
e.g. a town may be the source of day-trippers for a tourist destination.

Question 6

What are endogenous factors?

Answer 6

These refer to the local demographic characteristics and the physical geography of a place. They have originated internally These help to shape its unique character.

Question 7

What is lived experience?

Answer 7

A person’s sense of place that has been developed through their first-hand experiences of the place in spending time there.