Changing Places

• Demographic characteristics


  Features of the population, for example, ages and gender of the people
• Primary employment


  Farming or mining - extracting raw material
• Secondary employment


  Manufacturing products sold to consumers
• Tertiary employment


  Providing services such as doctors and lawyers
• Cultural characteristics


  Traditions and customs of a place e.g. prominent religions
• TNC


  Organisation that operates in one or more countries with no centralised management system
• MNC


  Organisation that operates in one or more countries with a centralised management system
• Artistic representation


  the description or portrayal of places given by a creative; for example a painting or a poem
• Sense of place


  Subjective and emotional attachment to a place. developed through experience and knowledge of a particular area.
• Locale


  The geographic place at which there is or was human activity. It does not include populated places, mines, and dams.
• Glocalization


  Adapting a business to help it progress in certain countries (e.g. McRice in Asia)
• Placelessness


  Places that lack sense of place and are 'inauthentic' no special relationships to where they are located - could be anywhere
• Big Data


  a broad term for datasets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate.
• Positionality


  Factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, religion, age, sexuality, disability and class influence how we perceive and experience places.
• Globalisation


  The growing interdependence of countries worldwide through increased movement and exchanges of people, goods, services, money, technology and ideas.