GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Geopolitics

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Location is just a position in space. Place is about social interaction public and private gardens being built. Place involves a physical bounding and social bounding which give meaning. Place is integral to the possible of experience. Many geographers work with space in this way. Place is focused on experience and space is about comparing phenomena. Place and space imply different ways of thinking about similar phenomena. Who we are: shifts and changes over time and with context: example: school, church, playing field. Our own identities are perhaps our most important act of creation. Violence related to the division, control and contestation of territory. Not restricted to nations and empires but neighbourhoods. Consciously present in a place: aware of dimensions. Her father wanted to die in the place of his birth. However people of class in communist poland were not welcome. He gravitated to a community with other exiled poles.