GEOG 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nonconformist, Keith Haring
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Transgressive: "relating to an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offense. : non-conformity: used to question normative world, marginality, different, resistance, change: challenging and transforming beliefs and suggestion potential changes. Place tensions: who belongs where and what activities belong where: place construction is often based on inclusion/exclusion (us vs. them, place is form of classification, how we perceive it relies on judgement, believes, ideologies, (cid:271)a(cid:272)kground, edu(cid:272)ation, et(cid:272) . Ideological beliefs: differentiate through place, creating "us and them" situations, creating "others, place is used to justify or present beliefs, ex. Self-imposed: people making and accepting certain norms themselves. Implications of transgression: the meaning of place will change. If meaning changes, the place will change: the new meaning will be "their" meaning, the place in question will become "their" place, ex. Meaning: urban farming, urban beekeeping, hanging clothes outside to dry, play sports in the streets, transgression legally, but normative because it is socially accepted.