{"id":1229,"date":"2016-11-03T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:54:30","slug":"the-genealogy-of-place-by-tim-cresswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/2016\/11\/03\/the-genealogy-of-place-by-tim-cresswell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genealogy of Place by Tim Cresswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter from Cresswell\u2019s book, <em>Place: A Short Introduction,<\/em> is aimed at describing how geographers look at places. Cresswell explores the idea of places through the lens of different schools of thought and how the scholars under those fields shape ideas about place and space. On a rather basic level, place is explored in a descriptive style. It is a \u2018common-sense view\u2019 that still exists today. However, there are other approaches to place, are starkly different from the descriptive style. When it comes to viewing the relationship of place and politics, radical geographer have their own notion of place. To the, \u201cplaces are socially constructed\u201d (Cresswell, 26) and therefore it can be changed. In addition, place is seen as an exclusionary entity within society. In contrast, those who observe place as phenomenological entity would view society as a place-constructed. This approach to place is \u201cless concerned with \u2018places\u2019 and more interested in Place.\u201d This idea of place versus Place and how it affects people within a place is extremely significant. One such scholar, Yi-Fu Tuan, developed the term <em>topophilia <\/em>to refer to the \u201caffective bond between people and place\u201d (Cresswell, 20). Other scholar, Edward Relph views place as profound centers of human existence. This relationship between people, place, and space has been pivotal to our projects as well as our class discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter from Cresswell\u2019s book, Place: A Short Introduction, is aimed at describing how geographers look at places. Cresswell explores the idea of places through the lens of different schools of thought and how the scholars under those fields shape ideas about place and space. On a rather basic level, place is explored in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}