ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - John Stuart Mill, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
Document Summary
We make up space/place by our definitions. We are spoken to and defines how we behave in a certain environment (e. g. classroom) Compare the nomadic use of land (sheep herders or wheat farmers) to the agricultural way of land (based on necessities and fixed in place) Private ownership of lands, fenced in lands, indicates the agricultural sense of space has won. We act it out: ghettos, racial segregation by space. Song lines; aboriginals measure and experience space through songs. 43-44: gender and space; how space belongs to female or male; kitchen = female dominance; Public and private place; there are different ways of using space in different types of people"s definitions. Wilderness: untouched landscape; the idea of wilderness, for example: wildness and civilizations (in dialogue, each one informs and defines the other) Architecture: how space are designed and hail us in different moments; places for children/adult, socializing.
