Writing about Creswell

The concept of places is usually romanticized due to its essential identification accorded by the history and occupants. The sense of locations and localities are plans of shifting and running away from the real-world issues or attempt to describe it above their problems. Capitals are undergoing internationalization especially financially. In my view, the current age has written a good deal about space and place. But the postmodernism view emphasizes on a new phase to be considered as house and time destruction. Currently, processes have asserted that they have bought a new momentum and reached a new level. It’s a situation which named as time and area compression.
The overall acceptance of space is to be marked by the mandatory literature of phrases and terms like the global village, overcoming of spatial barriers and the horizon disruption among others. The result of such conditions is the increasing level of uncertainty of what we mean by places and the relation we have with them. To retain the sense of place and its particulars, an idea of a location that was formerly inhabited by homogenous and coherent communities’ turns against the upcoming fragmentation as well as disruption and that becomes foolishness. But the longing for the original unity is a clear sign of geographic separation. Such dubious acts have called for nationalism, sanitized heritage, newcomers as well as outsiders’ antagonism. Such issues have resulted to seeking a sense of a place as the only necessary reactionary.

The meaning of place cannot be progressive, and in my view, we should rethink about it as it does not seem to be necessary. We should ask ourselves whether we benefit or suffer the same from space and time compression. As we query this ethnocentricity, we need to understand what causes it or determines its mobility degree and eventually influence what we think about the place. Such senses are profoundly brought about by the capital’s actions and the escalating internationalization. From that interpretation, it’s clear that it's time, money and space that make the world and people to revolve.

It’s not only capitalism that can make people experience what we go through; there are other things like gender and race. For example, different surveys show that women are restricted from movement in many different ways across the world from physical violence or being made to feel out of place by men and not capital. Many things determine how we experience space except what money gives us. But why do we think about places and localities when we can find same shops and same music wherever we go or when we can eat our favorite dish in a foreign land? Many people think of the insecurity and vulnerability to be what triggers question on place and locality. Due to such unrest, people seek for a quiet and peaceful place where they can settle and hence result to the unearthing of heritage (Cresswell, 10). The meaning of a place can be well laid on the fixity and insecurity or for the identity in the midst of changes and movements.

Why is it that people assume that space compression produces insecurity? The argument is not sufficient to be genuinely accepted. The sense of place is built out of an introverted and history of the internal origins. Geographers have been defining regions, and this is another way of creating counter position between us against them. If one thinks of any place that is not defined by political or administrative boundaries, such places have less real purchase.

We need to understand that, the sense of a place is not static, and if regions are easy to be conceptualized in social interaction terms, then it means that interactions should not be motionless. Again, boundaries should be used for other necessary studies and not for the conceptualization of a given place. Places are full of conflict about its past, future and present development, meaning they don’t have single unique identities. No one can deny the uniqueness or the importance of a place, but its specificity is a continual production and not a long and internalized history. Locality does not entail homogenization, but the uniformity of social relations is a way of creating non-uniformity in development and hence the distinctiveness of a place. The specificity of an area comes from the truth that each locality has a mixture of wider local social relations. When this mixture is together, they produce results that couldn’t have happened.

The character of people can be used to understand the sense of a place since it's constructed by connecting a place with other locations. I am pretty sure that Creswell would concur with me that, people should consider having a global sense of a place and not a local sense of the globe. We should not look at areas with defensive reactionary or drawing boundaries to enclose a particular location and then confine it in conceptualization. Such senses would help in eliminating vulnerability and insecurity from the overconcentration and presence of newcomers.



 







Work Cited

Cresswell, Tim. Place: an introduction. John Wiley & Sons, (2014): 10-22 (MLA)