Midterm Flashcards
(60 cards)
What are the key concepts in Cultural Geography?
space, place, and cultural landscape
What is place?
does not exist in the world but is actively constructed and (re)produced through socio-political practices
- enactment of social power
- social and political identity
- assertion of social and cultural identity
- produced through design and use
What is Agnew’s definitions on place?
location: latitude and longitude
locale: material factors of the area urban, people, environment
sense of place: human perceptions
What are the elements of place? (Lynch)
Path, Edge, District, Nodes, Landmark
What is Space-Time Routine as “Space Ballet”
- time geography
- maps where people begin their day, combined with others
- places are created by the bundle of activities that occur and intersect
What are the components to Place-Identity?
- Physical Signage
- Boundary-making
- Spatial Narratives
What is Place Marketing?
the promotion of a particular image of place that selectively highlights its positive qualities in order to attract a target audience
What is Place Making?
the process through which the symbolic elements of “place” are produced as meaningful arenas of lived experience.
- can get community involvement, creative process of reclamation of space
What is Place-Making as Performative?
- place is a verb not a noun (always becoming)
- places are produced through a series of acts that articulate specific social norms
- repetition of acts, reinforces the place-identities
Summarize the Case Study: Salish Sea
- happened over 2 decades
- started 1988 (Bert Webber)
- July 2010 it was approved
- performative speech acts
- critics: forgetting the colonial name, the monarch
- pro: many commend the name changes
Summarize the Case Study: Reclaiming of Pkols
- formerly known as Mt. Douglas
- named originally from James Douglas
- happened through an embodied practice (marching up the mountain)
- Reclaimed May 2013
Summarize the Case Study: The Arabian or Persian Gulf
- 2004 National Geographic published world atlas
- claim of waterway between Iran and Saudi Arabia
- the map is the becoming and beginning of naming a place
- politics of the place
What are examples that make up culture?
Traditions, Language, Social Norms, Heritage, Customs, History, Agricultural Practices, Music, Art, Place-based identities, Medicine
The ___ and ____ practices that shape peoples every day lives.
The MATERIAL and SYMBOLIC practices that shape peoples everyday lives
What is material culture?
technologies, built environment, economic activites
What are symbolic practices?
language, worldview, values
What is material-symbolic dialectic?
the interrelations between the two material and symbolic practices
Components of the Representations/Materiality Dualism?
Cultural Representation: place identities that get constructed through maps, language, photography
Material World: exists outside, what is happening in the world
Interrelation: there is a feedback loop occuring
What are spaces of “concrete abstraction”?
can be both at the same time
- material symbolic space
e. g. food, money
Who was Rene Descartes?
- coordinate system
- archaeologies of materialized cartesian space
- the manhattan grid
whole field of non-euclidean geometry
Describe the landscape as Cultural Representation materialized?
- dominant cultural norms expressed in material form
- contesting “culture” through landscape and place-making: acts of ‘renaming’
How do you interpret the cultural landscape?
- look beyond the appearance: social and environmental shifts
- looks can be deceiving: the distinction between ‘natural and ‘cultural’ landscape
- dig deeper: history, images, objects
- requires cultural, economic, political and aesthetic evaluation
What are the Analytical Approaches to a Landscape?
describe: cultural traits of different groups
classify: groups based upon cultural differences
map: out geographical extent of cultural areas
analyze: patterns of cultural diffusion
What are the Interpretive Approaches to a Landscape?
Interpret: the symbolic meanings of cultural systems (linguistic/discourse/psychological)
Critique: the political and economic underpinnings of social hierarchies and inequalities