A complete summary of the Changing Places topic for AQA Geography. Simplifies and condenses the information from the textbook with lots of examples making content easy to understand! Perfect for revision! Doesn't include near and far place case studies.
The concept of place
The meaning of the term place varies greatly depending on the discipline
- For geographers location, locale and sense of place
- Location = physical place, the where, longitude and latitude
- Locale = takes into account the effect that people have on their setting
- Sense of place = subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place
Theoretical approaches to place
There is clearly an overlap between them and no approach is more important than another
Descriptive approach
- Idea that the world is a set of places and each place can be studied and is distinct
Social constructionist approach
- Sees place as a product of a particular set of social processes occurring at a particular time
- Eg. Trafalgar square was built to commemorate a British naval victory in the 1800s and using a social constructi
approach, could be understood as a place of empire and colonialism
Phenomenological approach
- Not interesting in the unique characteristics of a place or why it was constructed
- Instead it is interested in how an individual person experiences place highly personal relationship between pl
person
, The importance of place in human life and experience
- People define themselves through a sense of place and by living in places
- Promotion of place is crucial in the marketing of holiday destinations
- Food items are increasingly marketed in terms of the place they came from
- People may ‘buy into’ or ‘consume’ place
People’s lived experience of place can be explored by looking at the impact of place on identity, belongin
+ well-being
Identity
- Place can be critical to the construction of identity home and local geographical area (local newspap
local fayre/events)
- Localism (‘nimbyism’), regionalism, nationalism
- Cornwall – calls for more regional government but also metro mayors to give north more power
HS2
- Nationalism shared language, sports events
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