CSMP 1.2

• What is the theory of space and place - Space exists between places and are locations that do not have meaning
• What case study would you reference with regards to how identity influences attatchment to place - Kurdistan mini case study
• How many people live in the heartland of Kurdistan 28 million
• Why do Kurds have emotional attatchment to the land (3) - Persecution from Saddam Hussain against them - Armed conflicts - Shared ethnicities between the kurds
• Who persecuted the kurds and how did they persecute the surds - Saddam Hussain - persecuted through chemical weaponry and torture
• What influences peoples emotional attatchment to place - Memory of personal experiences - posiitve experiences would result in a strong emotional attatchment to the place and vice versa
• What is the 'global village' - Used to convey how the world has grown 'smaller' metaphorically due to greater interconnectedness as a result of globalisation
• What are the advantages of informal methods of representation (2) - Visual representation of the area - Slumdog millionaire portrays dirty conditions which is true as there are 4000 cases of waterbourne illness a day - Those filmed over a longer period of time might give a better representation as different conditions are present throughout the year
• what are the disadvantages of using informal methods of representing place (2) - Captures a brief snapshot in time, with some areas influenced by weather conditons, changing the viewers percepetion of the place - Recorded for a specific purpose, maybe to promote tourism, or intentionally represent the area negativelly
• Examples of formal methods of representing place (3) - Census data - Crime figures - Road Networks
• How can census data be used to represent place (2) - Includes demographical information - Basic source of data from each household
• Why is census data useful in representing place (2) and why isn't it (1) - Provides wide-range of socio economic data as it is law for each household to complete it - Allows us to see spatial patterns at a range of scales - However it is difficult to keep the data up to date as a census only takes place every 10 years
• How can informal methods of representation represent a place (2) - Shows geographical contect and zooms into the places details - Films reply on a places representation to drive a plot
• Examples of Informal representation in the form of television - Television soaps build up a strong fictional representation of place
• Is coronation street an accurate informal representation of place (2) - Perceives vast swathes of terraced housing in salford, when only 56% of salford is actually terraced, perhaps inaacuratley representing poverty - £550 million investment in media city in salford, where corrie is filmed
• Example of informal representation in the form of films - films rely on places to tell a story
• Name some films as an example of informal representation (2) - Lord of the Rings - Slumdog Millionaire
• Is slumdog millionaire an accurate informal representation of Dharavi (2) - Represents the lack of sanitation - 1 toilet per 1400 people in dharavi so is accurate - 4,000 cases of typhoid each day, hence the films perception of dirtiness is accurate
• what has lord of the ring's positive representation of New Zealand resulted in - Promotion of the New Zealand tourist industry
• How and why do people perceive place in different ways (5) - Gender - Religion - Age - Sexuality - Performing role
• Describe gender in terms of how and why people perceive place in different ways (3) - In the past gender would have had a more significant impact, for example the widespread ideology of a womans place is in the home until the late 20th century - As a result public workspaces were dominated and still are dominated by a particular gender, like female nurses and male miners - an area dominated by one gender may seem unwelcoming, intimidating and biased resulting in a negative perception
• Describe religion in terms of how and why people perceive place in different ways (3) - Some physical features may be spiritually important, like Uluru in australia is important to the australian aborigines - Religions like Judaism, christianity and islam have given meanings to places by contructing synagigues, mosques etc providing a sense of belonging - Religion can provide a positive perception of faith naturally or man made, but can also deter people of altenative faith
• Describe Age in terms of how and why people perceive place in different ways (2) - perception of place changes as we cycle through our life, young adults would have a positive perception of urban areas with nightlife and leisure, people with families may perceive suburban space positively with easy access to schools and less pollution - Older people may prefer a more secluded area positiveley perceiving peace and quiet
• Describe sexuality in terms of how and why people perceive place in different ways (2) - As acceptance of sexual orientations becomes more widespread some places gather meaning as they are where lgbt people cluster, this enhances a sense of belonging forming a positive perception of place - The pink pound influences perception through regeneration and rebranding, for example manchester and brighton have beneffitted from lgbt tourism as people seek places the visit where they feel secure
• Describe performing role in terms of how and why people perceive place in different ways - Perception of place varies dependant on role and responsibility, a parent may perceive threats like traddic and have a negative perception of busier areas, while the elderly may rely on areas with access to rail and bus links
• Describe the ways in which people develop an emotional attatchment to place - Personal experience - Social experience
• Describe personal experience in terms of the ways in which people develop and emotional attatchment to place (2) - memory is personal because our experience is unique to us, memories are selective, we remember some experiences and forget others - If we have positive expereimncs of a place we are likely to have strong emotional attatchments to that place and vice versa
• Describe social experience in terms of the ways in which people develop and emotional attatchment to place - We can receive memories as part of a group, like emotional attatchment to a sporting home ground, people often have similar attatchment to nations as a whole, especially when people have been exiled from their homeland for whatever reason
• How does time space compression influence a sense of place (2) - Globalisation and global brands can impact places by homogenising the landscapes with global corporations like starbucks threatening uniqueness, however these can create perceptions of familiarity and make people feel more comfortable in interchangeable cities -Advantages of time space compression to people include those who feel comfot with the faster interconnections and economic social relations, however some feel dislocated from places they grew up and some may try and change their location to maintain its uniqueness
• Describe the influence of globalisation of sense of place (2) - The idea of the global village and how the world have become smaller because of greater interconnectedness due to globalisation - communications and the flow of capital are quicker and more reliable, people can travel further and more frequently