Space and Place

How does massey describe place using the example of Kilburn high street?

Place shouldnt be thought as historical, but reletionary made up of a tapestry of relations Kilburn is made up by many processes colonialism, heavy afro carribean population and irish population. 13% of the population is irish Linkages with outside gives place identity Biddy's mulligan pub

Sense of Place

Somewhere a unique community identifies, a sense of belonging

How does NYC lower east side demonstrate the concept of place as a social construct? (Creswell, 2004)

1. experience of LES comes from capitalism and western vales 2. riots in this area have created meaning 3. materiality of the place created by society - factories built for profit. Community gardens built by residents

Agnew's (1987) 3 dimensions of place

1. location 2. locale 3. sense of place

Summarise the marxist view of place

1. places are shaped by social relations 2. who has the power to make place meaningful 3. place is ideological 4. place making can be competitive

How does the 'progressive' sense of place describe it?

1. places can have multiple identities and meanings 2. places are processes 3. places do not boundaries

When did Edward Relph write place and placenessness

1977 - before mass homogenisation

When was Doreen Masseys Global sense of place written

1991

how does YFT define place?

As secure and stable. place is a pause

Yi-Fu Tuan on place

Everything starts as space, until we endow it with value: that is place

Explain Harvey's views on capitalism and place

Capital is highly mobile - always moving to find the best return New infrastructure is built rendering a place 'old' consigning it to deriliction Hence places compete for a share of capital leading to place building and homogenisation. Link to Augé

Why has Gz made people think place is dead?

Globalisation has led to the perception that place has been eroded - more places look, smell and seem the same around the world. These spaces are detached from the locality and tell us nothing about where they are located.

How can we evaluate the idea of non-places

Glocalisation.

How do they define each other?

In the safety of place you are aware of the threat, freedom and openness of space.

Epistemology

How do we know what we know. How do we understand the world around us?

What did Relph argue about authenticity of place?

In the modern world we cannot have an authentic relationship with place due to mass communication that makes places morph into the same experience

What are the issues with Sack's claims

It cannot explain the causation/ideology in the LES for example.

What is a social construct?

Not natural and made by humans or society

What does Relph argue are the causes of this?

R blames mobility - people are moving more often (av. american moves 3 times a year.) People are more interested in the fact that they are travelling rather than the place they are going

What does Harvey say about place?

Social construction - highly symbolic.

What does Massey's favela example illustrate?

Some are in control of TSC usually westerners. Others are imprisoned by it. e.g. favela music being played in clubs

How does Massey present the inequities in Time-space compression?

TSC is not equal. Tech allows some who can afford/control it e.g. western businessmen fly over polynesian societies but these societies are excluded by the resulting boat traffci

How might you evaluate this claim?

Tech and social media/ smartphone ubiquity may alleviate this

Space

The dimension which matter is located

What does Harvey say about the Security of place and capitalism?

The mobility of capitalism makes people value place more and more as a secure place. Evident in current trends now

What are non-places?

Transient, homogeneous, re-creatable places

Hence what do some conclude about natural things and social constructs?

We need to construct social meaning for natural things so we are able to explain and discuss them

Ontology

What do we believe exists or is real?

Locale

a setting where everyday activities take place

Give examples of non-places

airports, shopping centres, disney lands

how does YFT define space

free and open

What does Massey's argument conclude for globalisation?

globalisation does lead to more aerial differences as outside influence is becoming more common. Globalisation doesnt = homogenisation Space is getting smaller but reletionships are getting more spread out.

What does Augé say about non-places?

place in the traditional sense is being taken over by non -places

What does Sack claim?

place is irreducible and cannot be broken down to the natural, cultural or social. Place is bigger than society. Humans cannot construct anything with being in a place

Describe the 'mosaic' ontology of place

places have single identities places are stationary places have distinct boundaries

What is militant particularism?

political use of aspects of place to form resistance against global capitalism e.g. creating imagined places for religious, national reasons via monuments

Location

site where an activity is located

What does she compare the West's loss of identity to ?

the appropriation of colonized peoples

What do critical geographers think of social constructs

they take the view that humans made it we are able to change it. Hence their critiques can be transformed into real life policy changes

key points from a PSoP

• Place should be thought as a constant process, with multiple identities and no clear boundaries • Places are nodes in a network of relations • Ontologies of place can differ vastly based on social position. • As places are made up of outside influence - globalization leads to more distinction, not homogeneity