GEOG-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Ugly Law
Document Summary
People experience place in different ways based on their cultural histories and social locations. Landscapes reflect different cultural ideas and worldviews. Different landscapes and places shape the way we act. Formal organizations of power use culturally informed spatial strategies to control people. Perceptions of place shape social relationships, and the ways that perceptions of places and people can be tied together. Where you live comes to define you in certain ways. People identify or come to disidentify with the places they live/come from. People perceive you/make assumptions about you based on where you live/are from, and this can shape how they treat you. Places come to represent people and ways of life, stories. Different places are connected to various lifestyles. Every representation has a politics. (what"s at stake) What is at stake in the way something is represented, including what informs and representation and the image it projects.
