Understanding Cultural Geography Quotes

“Sense of place refers to the emotional, experiential, and affective traces that tie humans into particular environments.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Spaces are scientific, open, and detached; places are intimate, peopled, and emotive.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Places are at once the medium and the message of cultural life. They are where cultures, communities, and people root themselves and give themselves definition.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“These trace-chains are also significant as they may motivate similar actions in other places.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“As a consequence of the constant production of traces, places become dynamic entities; they are in fluid states of transition as new traces react with existing or older ones to change the meaning and identity of the location. It is argued here, therefore, that places should be understood as ongoing compositions of traces.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Traces are marks, residues, or remnants left in place by cultural life.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“What cultural geography seeks to do, therefore, is explore the intersections of context and culture.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“culture includes the material things, the social ideas, the performative practices, and the emotional responses that we participate in, produce, resist, celebrate, deny, or ignore. Culture is therefore the constituted amalgam of human activity – culture is what humans do.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Geographical context is often thought about in terms of national or political territories, physical landscapes, or exotic places.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces

“Context can influence what actions we choose to make and how we choose to make them, it can influence how these actions are judged by ourselves and others, and thus how successful and significant they turn out to be.”
― Jon Anderson, Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and traces