Place
Because I have been nomadic for the past two years, I think a lot about the topic of home and belonging.
“People think that geography is about capitals, land forms, and so on. But it is also about place — its emotional tone, social meaning, and generative potential.”
Humanistic geography is the relationship between people and their environments.
Humanist geography arose in the 1970s as a way to counter what humanists saw as a tendency to treat places as mere sites or locations.
A humanist geographer would argue places we inhabit have as many personalities as those whose lives have intersected with them.
And the stories we tell about places often say as much about who we are, as about where our feet are planted.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore- pioneered the concept of carceral geography “which examines the complex interrelationships among landscape, natural resources, political economy, infrastructure and the policing, jailing, caging and controlling of populations.”
But concepts of love, familiarity and respect aren't easily quantifiable, so the Canadian government establish how the Inuit owned the world in their own way: using knowledge- a "product of the lived experience of the Intuit" to define Inuit possessions in the Arctic.
The maps that resulted from it are not through infrastructure or architecture, but hard earned lived knowledge of those who hunt.
Hunters demonstrated where they hunted, where they found plants, and came to show patterns of animal migration and plant harvesting.
These maps are biographical, historical, familial, community interest, and ecological. The maps were results of generations of ecological knowledge.
Antilibrary
Humanist Geography: An Individual’s Search for Meaning
The Poetics of Space
Invisible Cities
Place and Placelessness
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Romantic Geography: In Search of the Sublime Landscape
Escapism
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Landscapes of Fear
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”