Cresswell, Tim 2014, Place: an introduction, Wiley Blackwell, West Sussex, UK
(Cresswell 2014 and Agnew 1987, p. 12) – The political geographer John Agnew has outlined three fundamental aspects of place as a “meaningful location” 1. Location…2. Locale… 3. Sense of place
(Cresswell 2014, p. 14) – Novels and films often evoke a sense of place – a feeling that we the reader/viewer know what it is like to “be there”. We often have a sense of place about where we live, or where we lived when we were children‰
(Cresswell 2014, p. 18) – But place is also a way of seeing, knowing, and understanding the world. When we look at the world as a world of places, we see different things. We see attachments and connections between people and place. We see worlds of meaning and experience. Sometimes this way of seeing can seem to be an act of resistance against rationalisation of the world that focuses more on space than place. To think of an area of the world as a rich and complicated interplay of people and the environment – as a place – is to free us from thinking of it as facts and figures
(Cresswell 2014, p. 18) – Place is how we make the world meaningful and the way we experience the world.
(Cresswell 2014, p. 119) – Place and memory are, it seems, inevitably intertwined. Memory appears to be personal thing – we remember some things and forget others. But memory is also social. Some memories are allowed to fade – are not given any kind of support… One of the primary ways in which memories are constituted is through the production of places.