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HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND PLACE - Coggle Diagram
HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND PLACE
Representations of place
Formal- objective, data driven
Census data
news
Maps
statistics
literature
photography
Informal- individual perception, subjective
Art
graffiti
blogs
film
literature
photography
TV
Representation changes based on audience agenda, not always representative of lived reality
Slumdog millionaire vs Billy Elliot (Mumbai vs County Durham)
Stereotypes surrounding class culture and location
People’s experience of place
What can affect someone’s experience of a place ?
Age
Sexuality
Gender
Race
Religion
Disability
E.g being a wheelchair user in Mexico City
Class
Attachment
Kurdistan
28-30 million Kurds who are Sunni muslims
Unity of language culture and religion
Region straddling Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran
Protective Zagros mountains
Means gaining full independence could lead to conflict
Before the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Kurdistan had a defined land
1920 treaty of Lausanne defined borders and eradicated Kurdistan
Kurds have been fighting against ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Iraqi-Kurdistan independence was proposed in 2017
10% of seats in Turkish parliament were Kurds in 2018
Want to achieve full sovereignty and ownership over their land and freedom from oppression
Nationalism- identification with ones own nation and support for its interest, often to the exclusion of the interests of other nations
Separatism- Advocacy for separation of a certain group from the central government