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The paper revisits extant geographical conceptualisations of place and of the relationship between self and place in order to align our discipline's understanding of place with current developments in cognitive science and psychology. More specifically, I describe, explain, and illustrate specific mechanisms by which our subjective experience of place is being structured. The key conceptual move enabling this surprising level of detail consists in decomposing the umbrella term "memory" and analysing in a systematic manner the multiple memory systems through which we encode the mark that a given place has had on us.
The Geography of Embodiment in Early Modern England
Place and Memory: history, cognition, phenomenology2017 •
If remembering, feeling, decision-making and other 'psychological' processes are by nature animated or embodied processes, then the geography of embodiment also includes a geography of mind. And if, further, such cognitive and affective processes are distributed and ecological processes, in that they sometimes spread across brain, body, and world, then human minds are partly geographical or environmental in nature. On this view, historically and culturally unique landscapes, architectures, technologies, and ecologies are not always simply external to our mental life, not merely settings and stimuli for thought on the one hand, and (on the other) one of many kinds of thing to think about. Instead, in certain circumstances the places we inhabit can partly constitute the processes and activities of feeling, remembering, and so on. Despite the new mobilities of early modern English society, significant practices of personal and shared remembering continued to be anchored in experienced place. Even as technologies and strategies for dealing with past and future altered, memory was still richly scaffolded by landscapes, artifacts, architecture, and institutions which all themselves bore the traces of individual and cultural intervention. This essay builds on recent social histories of early modern landscape and memory, to explore the nature of embodied place memory. It also aims at an updated assessment of the historical utility of the idea of distributed cognitive ecologies.
2012 •
This is a study of a researcher’s memory and subjective construction of a place. It includes books, articles, images, and described memories; elements that she relates to the place where she lives and where her contemplative ideas about her own relationship with that place thrive. She exposes and dwells on how all these ingredients are connected in her mental picture of the place in question, London, hoping that her feelings and sensations can be expressed on paper and communicated to other people. The narrative also features interviews with students and parallels being drawn between her ideas of place and memory and an essay film that inspires her. In fact, throughout the whole project, every element that was inserted into the frame ‘introduction > development > conclusion’ is an attempt to build a dialogue with other approaches and perspectives.
Philosophy and geography III: Philosophies of place
Finding place: Spatiality, locality, and subjectivity1998 •
The first part of the paper develops the argument that geographers should learn to decompose human memory into its constituent parts because then and then alone will we become attuned to the full range of ways in which we incorporate places into our beings. The second part of the paper articulates Stephen Hill's comments on episodic memory with my recent work on wisdom.
Abstract: This easy asks the question what is identity and how does a sense of place / belonging relate to this concept? It is argued in this essay, that it’s via the processes of memory and belonging / place attachments, that we attain an individual / social identity. This process has been analysed within the context of memory and via a belonging / place attachment contextual processes.
Book Review of "Remembering Places: A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship between Memory and Place" by Janet Donohoe (Lexington Books, 2014).
Journal of European Landscapes
From a local to global sense of placeIn times of globalisation and increased connectivity the construction of sense of place is subject to change. In this article the impact of increased connectivity on the development of sense of place is researched through literature studies and field research. The field research covered 18 towns and cities in Europe, all situated along the Rhine, Main and Danube. The largest spatial scale that is addressed in this article is Europe. During this field research, we constructed a systematic and methodological framework to read sense of place. The basis of this framework consists of the four stimuli of aesthetics, people, activity and connectivity. These four stimuli together form the basis of what we call a daily trajectory. This article focuses on connectivity because we believe that this stimulus is determined for the quality of the daily trajectory and consequently, sense of place. When stretched over time, improved connectivity ensures the expansion of scale of what people call the...
A “Sense of place” is oen used to convey the rela- tionship that people have to the place where they live, while “place attachment” can refer to a signifi- cant place in a person’s life or a place of inspiration, as well as the place where they may live. These are just two of the terms used by many different disci- plines, such as human geographers, psychologists, sociologists, urban planners, landscape architects and so on, to convey the connectedness of people to a specific place or a type of environment. The terms have become confused, as each discipline brings with it its own understandings. A review by Scan- nell and Gifford (2010) brought some clarity to the topic and they proposed a tripartite model to take the concept further. Whilst this model brings coher- ence to the subject it suffers by dividing the concept into people, place and process as separate entities. It is proposed in this paper that the concept would be better viewed holistically, with people and place connected through the process, with landscape at its heart. By redesigning the tripartite model it is possible to demonstrate the process of people affect- ing the landscape and vice versa. Although in using this process orientated model the questions gener- ated would essentially remain the same, how they are viewed and integrated would change however. “Sense of place” is used to convey the relation- ship people have to the place where they live, work or spend their leisure time, yet it “is a paradoxical concept with a meaning that is readily grasped, but difficult to define” (Morgan 2010:11). Some authors have divided the concept into different components, such as place identity, place attachment, and place dependence, illustrated here by interviews organ- ised by the author and examples in literature.
2010 •
This is the second part (slightly revised in September 2018 to correct typos) of an unpublished two part essay on the changes that have happened to place since the publication of my book Place and Placelessness in 1976. It considers how experiences of places have changed since then as a consequence of increases in mobility, multi-centred living and electronic communications. The first part examines changes to the material identity of places. They draw on theories and ideas about place since 1975 and offer some theoretical speculations about heterotopia and the openness of place.. While both essays draw on ideas I have published elsewhere or posted on my Placeness website, this comprehensive synthesis is new and unlikely to be published. The central theme is that there changes since 1975 have had profound implications for how places are made and experienced.
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