GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Proxemics, North American Free Trade Agreement
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We seek territory: for security & stimulation to satisfy the need for identity; shared characteristics that define a group of people, can be individual as well to satisfy the need for basic sustenance for socialization passionate sense of belonging, childhood events that have become part of your memory, the fondness, joy, happiness we have of one place. Territory: the continuous or discontinuous space used by an individual/ group for interactions that contribute to satisfying the need for sustenance, security, stimulation (implies you are motivated), and identity & is strongly related to sense of place: while territory is most generally related to control of specific areas, it can also be seen in strategies to exert control over other people, resources, or relationships (mechanisms where we control or we are controlled by other people) thus territoriality provides a way to meet social cultural needs of groups such as: regulation of social interaction regulation of access to people & resources &
