[GEOG 1] CULTURAL GEOGRAPY

CULTURE

Shared set of meanings that is lived thru material & symbolic practices of everyday life.

Culture

Dynamic concept that revolves around & intersects w/ complex social, political, econ, & historical factors. Includes identity.

Material, Non-Material

Types of Culture

Material

Type of Culture: Concrete artifacts; arki, art (can show primary industry), tech, clothing, food.

Non-Material

Types of Culture: Values (moral standards), Beliefs (based on values), Behavior (based on vb). Ex: Marites.

Cultural Geog

Space, place, landscape <-> culture.

Cultural Geog

Culture & shared meanings, context in one container (place). As small as body or as big as a country.

Traditions

Folk & Popular

Folk

Traditional practices of small grps, esp rural people w/ simple lifestyle.

Popular

Type of Tradition: Practices & meaning systems produced by large grps of people whose norms & tastes are often heterogenous & change frequently, often in response to commercial products.

Cultural

Type of Landscape: Characteristic & tangible outcome of complex interaction between a human grp (w/ its own practices, preferences, values, aspirations) and its natural environment.

Cultural

Type of Landscape: Humanized version of the natural landscape.

Natural, Cultural, Symbolic, Ordinary

Types of Landscape

Natural

Type of Landscape: Landscapes formed by natural processes.

Natural

Type of Landscape: Natural physical expression of the place.

SAUER’S LANDSCAPE PROCESS

How humans modify the environment:

Culture

Agent in how humans modify the environment

Natural Area

Medium in how humans modify environment

Cultural

Type of Landscape that is a result of how humans modify the environment

Symbolic

Type of Landscapes that represent & give meaning or symbolism

Symbolic

Type of Landscapes of national identity, power, despair, love, sacred spaces, funerary landscape

Ordinary/Vernacular

Type of Landscape: Landscapes created in everyday life

Ordinary/Vernacular

Type of Landscape: Landscapes that are lived in, change, and in turn, influence. Often overlooked.

Cyberspace

Ex of symbolic, No space, nowhere, everywhere. Social setting that exists purely w/in space of representation & comm.

Socio-spatial dialectic

Society & space continuously shape eo.

Socio-spatial Dialectic

spatial organization of society is product of social processes, but it also feeds back to influence those very processes.

Places

Socially constructed and centers of meaning for people

Places

Given diff meanings by diff grps for diff purposes.

Places

Frameworks for humans’ actions & behavior

Places

Constructed from subjective points of view

Cognitive Image

People form this as a product of info abt the real world, experienced in/directly + filtered thru perception + values they have acquired from cultural background.

Paths (streets), Edges (boundaries), Districts (areas), Nodes (activity centers), Landmarks (reference points).

Cognitive Images Elements

Real world → Information (Senses & Environmental messages) → Perception (Brain & Personality) → Cognition (Culture) → Transformed Cognitive Image (Recall).

Cognitive Image Formation

SENSE OF PLACE

Feelings evoked among ppl as result of experiences & memories they associate w/ the place + symbolism they attach to it.

PLACE-MAKING

Created by people responding to opportunities & constraints presented by environments. Modifications & adjustments of humans to their environment to suit their needs + express their values.

TOPOPHILIA

Love of place.

Topophilia

Emotions & meanings associated w particular places that have become significant to indivs.

TERRITORIALITY

Persistent attachment of indivs/ppls to a specific loc/territory.

Territory

Provides source of physical safety & security.

PROXEMICS

Study of social & cultural meanings that people give to personal space.

RACE

Socially created system of rules abt who belongs to a particular grp based upon actual/perceived commonalities.

Race

Category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits

Race

Usually associated w/ biology.

ETHNICITY

Linked w cultural expression & identification.

Ethnicity

Speak same language, come from same country, share religion/culture belief/expression.

Ethnicity & Race

Genome

RACIALIZATION

Practice of creating unequal castes based on norm of whiteness.

Racial Bias

fuels social exclusion, discrimination, violence.

SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH

How ur physiological characteristics (chromosomes, hormones, internal/external reproductive organs) relate to medical definitions of sex.

Sex assigned at birth

Female, Intersex, Male

GENDER IDENTITY

How you think about yourself

Gender Identity

(Woman, Non-binary, Man).

GENDER EXPRESSION

How u communicate/perform gender (Act, dress, behave, interact)

Gender Expression

Fem, Androgynous, Masc

GENDER

Socially constructed performance that uses codes of femininity & masculinity to operate in the world.

GEOGRAPHIES OF SEXUALITY

Encompass relationship & interactions between human sexuality, space, place.

LANGUAGE

Bearer of culture

Language

Means of communicating ideas/feelings by way of a conventionalized system of signs, gestures, mrks, articulate vocal sounds.

PIDGIN

Characteristic of language: 2 cultures communicate through shared language.

CREOLE

Characteristic of language: Systematic & used everyday (chavacano).

LINGUA FRANCA

Characteristic of language: 1 language that everyone understands.

GEOG OF DISABILITY

Physical/mental condition that limits person’s movements, senses, activities in contrast w how spaces are usually catered to “normal”.

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY

Views world as composed of heterogenous things, including humans & nonhumans & objects such as animals + inanimate objs.

NON-REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY

Interested in events in which things suddenly shift + something involuntary occurs, when whole grps experiences something not anticipated in advance.

Non-Representational Theory

Experience smth u cant put into words.

EMOTIONAL GEOG

How emotions are tied to places.

MATERIALISM

Nonhuman entities are partly separate from humans + possess power to affect humans.

Materialism

How cultural beliefs & values gain permanence + power thru material form.

Food

represents economy, politics ng isang lugar, notjust about representaton but about participation, and is a medium for artistic & everyday creativity