All studies for Human geography Flashcards
(49 cards)
Contrasted place and space
Yi Fu Tuan (1977)
3 fundamental aspects of place
1)location
2)locale
3) sense of place
Agnew (1987)
Marxist geographer
capitalism is the driving force of place
place is a social construct
David Harvey (1993)
‘place can be considered as a series of articulated moments in networks of social control and understanding’
Massey (1994)
Feminist geographer theorised on place and the home
Doreen Massey (1994)
theorised non place
Auge (1995)
outside forces intrude into the subjective and objective aspects of local life
every locale is both unique and shares common features with other locales
Castree (2008)
landscape as the basic unit of geography
Sauer (1925)
First to use term palimpest
Meinig (1979)
visual power given to the landscape is the real power we exert over land
landscape as ways of seeing that allow power to appropriate
Cosgrove (1985)
Suggests change from noun to verb
landscapes seen as social process of identity formation
bodies are not detached from the landscape
Mitchell (2008)
examined racialised landscapes in the university of Georgia campus
North Campus offers collective whitewashed histories of oppression that emit complex pains of African American people on campus
Inwood and Martin (2008)
Non- representational landscapes
Landscapes, like bodies, can be understood as a continuous process of constant formation
landscapes understood as ‘dreams of presence’
way of creating static in a consistently and innately mobile world
Macpherson (2010)
gender differences only exist to the extent to which they are performed
Butler
encourage understanding of how the sexed body interacts with spatial dynamics to understand how bodies become meaningful and make meaning
Johnson (1990)
Bodily comportment
Young (1990)
ways that human embodiment is mediated by non human aspects
‘cyborgs’
Haraway (1991)
food/health/beauty triplex
Lupton (1996)
‘embodiment is an ethics through which bodies become, intersect and affirm their existence’
Bray and Colebrook (1998)
studied Canadian diaspora
how the black female body is experienced and shaped
McKittrick (2000)
‘it is on the body that the complexity and ambiguity of history, race, racism and space are inscribed’
McKittrick (2000)
3 areas of body:
- representation
- practice
- implications of bodies complex materiality for understanding society
Moss and Dyck (2003)
although race is unstable it is constantly being reconstituted by political materiality and strategy
Tolia-Kelly (2010)