Changing Places: Key words

Question 1

Agents (forces) of change

Answer 1

The people who impact on a place through working, living or improving that place

Question 2

Big data

Answer 2

Extremely large data set from which we can learn a great deal with effective analysis

Question 3

Endogenous factors

Answer 3

Internal characteristics of a place

Question 4

Exogenous factors

Answer 4

The relationship of a place with other places

Question 5

Experienced places

Answer 5

Places that a person has spent time in

Question 6

Character

Answer 6

Physical and human features that help make a place different to another place

Question 7

Infrastructure

Answer 7

Services considered essential to enable or improve living conditions

Question 8

Location

Answer 8

Where a place is

Question 9

Locale

Answer 9

The place where something happens, is set or has particular events associated with it (a house, park, office)

Question 10

Perception of place

Answer 10

the way in which a place is viewed or regarded by people (influenced by the media or personal experiences)

Question 11

Place

Answer 11

A location that has meaning (given by people)

Question 12

Place-making

Answer 12

deliberate shaping of an environment to meet needs for social interaction and improve community’s quality of life

Question 13

Sense of place

Answer 13

subjective and emotional attachment people have to a place (developed through experience and knowledge of the place)

Question 14

Localism

Answer 14

Love or loyalty to a particular place

Question 15

Regionalism

Answer 15

Love or loyalty to a particular region

Question 16

Nationalism

Answer 16

Love or loyalty to a particular nation

Question 17

Clone town

Answer 17

A town that is not significantly different from another (has same shops)

Question 18

Homogenised

Answer 18

To make uniform or similar

Question 19

Glocalisation

Answer 19

Adapting a business to make it do well in a country e.g. McRice

Question 20

Belonging

Answer 20

To be part of the community

Question 21

Texts

Answer 21

A source for analysis: texts used by cultural geographers include works of art and films, as well as written sources like novels and songs

Question 22

Tourist gaze

Answer 22

What a visitor sees or experiences about a place of interest (e.g. historic site). To some extent it is organised by professionals in the tourist industry

Question 23

Transition Town movement

Answer 23

Initiative that puts emphasis on community involvement

Question 24

Insider

Answer 24

To belong and identify with a place

Question 25

Other

Answer 25

Someone or something that is different, alien or exotic. A person living in a distant place may be described as ‘other’ by individuals or society, as a result of the perceived contrast between ‘them’ and ‘us’

Question 26

Positionality

Answer 26

Refers to factors such as gender, race, age, religion and socio-economic status

Question 27

Quantitative

Answer 27

Numerical data to which different techniques of statistical analysis may be applied to test significance

Question 28

Qualitative

Answer 28

Data that can be organised into descriptive categories that are not numerical; such data may include oral sources such as interviews, songs, poems and visual artistic impressions

Question 29

Space

Answer 29

The three dimensional surface of the earth; further defined by human geographers as a container in which objects are located and human behaviour is played out

Question 30

Outsider

Answer 30

Someone who feels homesick, alienated or excluded by society in a specific place, for example in a work or study environment as a result of constructed barriers

Question 31

Placelessness

Answer 31

The idea that a particular landscape could be anywhere because it lacks unique features. E.g. high streets with identically branded chain stores

Question 32

Far (distant) place

Answer 32

Somewhere that an individual perceives as being physically distant, generally inaccessible. Can be shaped by networks of infrastructure. (transport, communication)