Work Notes Flashcards
What is geopiety??
Reverence of a place
What is territoriality?
Marking a place as ‘yours’
What is location?
Where a place is
What is locale?
This is the place where somethings happened or set
What is sense of place?
The subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place.
How has concept of place changed overtime?
By technology - closed distance from one side to another
How are physical characteristics changing?
By time scales
How is sense of place changing?
People or groups may change and memories can differ
What is a descriptive approach? - theoretical approaches to place
The idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct.
What is a social constructionist approach? - theoretical approaches to place
Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes
What is a phenomenological approach? - theoretical approaches to place
About how an individual person experiences place, recognises a highly personal connection between place and person.
What are traces?
Marks that have been left in place by cultural life
What is localism?
An affection or emotional ownership of a particular place
What is an ‘insider’?
Someone who feels involved and familiar with a place
What is an ‘outsider’?
Someone who feels unwelcome or excluded from a place.
What is positionality?
Perceive places based on demographics
What is globalisation?
The increasing connection between places and people across the world
What does Massey believe?
That globalisation has had a major impact on our sense of place.
What does Kunstler believe?
That globalisation has made places less important and homogenised and identical losing sense of place.
What is a ‘media’ place?
A place you have seen on film/TV/media
What is a ‘experienced’ place?
A place where someone has experienced
What does exogenous characteristics of a place mean?
The internal factors which shape a place’s character
What does endogenous characteristics of a place mean?
The external factors which shape a place’s character
What is place marketing?
How places are sold to consumers
What is quantitative data?
Numerical data
What is qualitative data?
Non-numerical data
