Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective

Tuan, Yi–Fu

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“…These narratives may attune individuals to certain aspects of place experience over others (Tuan, 1977), influencing the moods and emotions described by individuals in relation to different place encounters. For example, reflecting longstanding perceptions of water as 'cleansing' or 'purifying' (Völker and Kistemann, 2011), participants in the current study indicated Post-review pre-print.…”

Section: Symbolic Therapeutic Experiences At the Coastmentioning

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“…The physical extent and broad horizons of the sea afforded a sense of spaciousness, which participants felt helped to 'clear the head', suggesting feelings of cognitive release or 'internal spaciousness' (Conradson, 2005). such open horizons and the enclosed, indoor environments routinely encountered at home and work (Tuan, 1977).…”

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“…Social Science & Medicine, 142: 56-67. display a "relaxed tendency", allowing for casual friendly interaction, or a "situated connectivity" (Ryan, 2012, p. 200). always lead to perceived crowding (Tuan, 1977), participants' narratives indicated this to be more likely when desired activities conflict, as illustrated in the extract from Mike's interview below: Several participants used adaptive strategies to minimise their sense of crowding during the holiday periods. These included: the avoidance of more commercialised beaches; walking further along the coast to quiet beaches with no facilities which tourists rarely locate; reverting to inland woodland rather than coastal walks which tend to be less busy; focusing on more local activities and reducing car use for leisure in order to avoid the increased road congestion; and making the most of preferred coastal areas out of season where possible.…”

Section: Social Therapeutic Experiences At the Coastmentioning

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Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape

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Recent research suggests coastal environments may promote human health and wellbeing. This article explores the diverse coastal experiences sought out by residents of two towns in south west England to promote and preserve their personal wellbeing in the context of their everyday lives. It draws on the findings of an in-depth interpretive study conducted from May to November 2013 that examined the relative contribution of varied green and blue space experiences to individual wellbeing through the life course. Personalised activity maps produced using accelerometer and Global Positioning System (GPS) data were used to guide in-depth geo-narrative interviews with a purposive sample of 33 participants. This was combined with a subset of nine case study go-along interviews in places deemed therapeutic by the participants themselves, offering deeper insight into the lived experiences and relationships playing out within such places. Situated in a novel adaptation of the therapeutic landscapes framework, this article explores how symbolic, achievement-oriented, immersive and social experiences contributed to participants' sense of wellbeing in their local coastal areas.Participants expressed particularly strong and often enduring connections to the local coastline, with different coastal stretches perceived to cater for varied therapeutic needs and interests, at multiple scales and intensities. The findings suggest the need for greater acknowledgement of people's emotional, deeply embodied and often shared connections to the coast within coastal management policy and practice, both nationally and internationally. Importantly, such efforts should recognise the fluid, dynamic nature of this land-sea boundary, and the valued therapeutic experiences linked to this fluidity.

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“…The concept of place has been widely used, particularly in human geography, when reviewing the meanings and relationships between humans and their environment (Cresswell 1996;Massey 1994;Sack 1992;Skelton & Valentine 1998;Tuan 1977). This work has tended to consider place as a fluid entity rather than something that is, for example, bounded by organisational processes such as national borders.…”

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“…As Massey (1991: 28) states, 'what gives a place its specificity is not some long internalized history but the fact that it is constructed out of a particular constellation of social relations, meeting and weaving together at a particular locus'. Place links people to things in the world (Tuan 1977) and allows us to explore how we inhabit and experience the world we live in. Agnew (1987) argues, place can be understood in 3 ways: firstly, as a location in which an activity or object is situated; secondly, as a locale, where it is the setting to everyday life; and thirdly, as a sense of place where there is an attachment and a felt belonging to a specific place.…”

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Spiller

2012

Appetite

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Abstract:In the social sciences there has been much exciting and informative work on farmers' markets and this paper contributes to this literature by considering how the place of farmers' markets affects the way consumers understand the taste of food. I draw on the difficulty faced by many consumers in articulating the taste of food, especially when food is perceived to taste good. I explore how consumers demonstrate their evaluations of taste, whether through descriptions of taste that are metaphor-laden or through beliefs and values emboldened by food knowledges and opinions. I argue these are how farmers' market consumers understand and perform taste in relation to market food. The findings that inform the paper are taken from interviews with farmers' market consumers in the UK.

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Whether to design and plan a life

Collen

1998

Syst. Res.

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The individual human being is the point of reference from which the design and plan of a life take shape. This paper examines the essential idea of design and plan as they may be applied to lifelong learning, with special attention given to individuation and lifestyle. Further, it discusses the idea of a personal guidance system for one's learning, professional and social development, which centers on a value base for organizing one's designing and planning activities. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective

Cited by 960 publications

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Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape

Seeking everyday wellbeing: The coast as a therapeutic landscape

It tastes better because … consumer understandings of UK farmers’ market food

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