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What’s in a name? Place branding and toponymic commodification
  • What’s in a name? Place branding and toponymic commodification
  • Commodification ; Contestation ; Economic geography ; Identity ; Image ; Marketing ; Place ; Place names
  • This article examines place branding and toponymic commodification. First, it discusses issues of endogenous and exogenous contestation that surround it. It concludes by discussing how the commodifying effects of places as brand names
  • , with their associated brand values and imagery, can potentially suppress the alternative place perceptions of users, and in doing so stifle the natural potential for cocreation of the place ‘product’ and its related value.
  • 2014
Understanding place as ‘Home’ and ‘Away’ through practices of bird-watching
  • Understanding place as ‘Home’ and ‘Away’ through practices of bird-watching
  • Australia ; Fauna ; Habitat ; Leisure ; New South Wales ; Place ; Sense of belonging ; Space
  • This paper illustrates how the practices of bird-watching are integral to the making and remaking of sense of place as ‘home’ and ‘away’, to sustain identities beyond accepted categories of ‘dude’, ‘birder’ and ‘twitcher’. The creation
  • and application of different types of ‘bird-lists’ helps to explain the ways in which practices of bird-watching facilitate making sense of place as simultaneously ‘home’, ‘away’ and habitat, as well as the identity work of home-maker, citizen-scientist
  • 2014
What drives nearshore sediment transport controls on the depletion of beach placers at Manavalakurichi, Southwest Coast of India?
  • What drives nearshore sediment transport controls on the depletion of beach placers at Manavalakurichi, Southwest Coast of India?
  • Bathymétrie ; Dynamique littorale ; Hydrodynamique ; Inde ; Littoral ; Minéraux lourds ; Modèle numérique ; Placer ; Ressource naturelle ; Scénario ; Simulation ; Tamil Nādu ; Transport sédimentaire
  • Bathymetry ; Coastal dynamics ; Coastal environment ; Heavy minerals ; Hydrodynamics ; India ; Natural resources ; Numerical model ; Placer ; Scenario ; Sediment transport ; Simulation ; Tamil Nadu
  • Batimetría ; Dinámica litoral ; Escenario ; Hidrodinámica ; India ; Litoral ; Minerales pesados ; Modelo numérico ; Placer ; Recursos naturales ; Simulación ; Tamil Nadu ; Transporte sedimentario
  • controls, and to identify the specific factors that play prominent roles in sediment transport controls and concentration of the beach placers at Manavalakurichi, along the southwest coast of India. Numerical simulations linking bathymetry, hydrodynamics
  • and depletion of placers in the adjacent beaches.
  • 2014
An Eruv for St Ives? religion, identity, place and conflict on the Sydney north shore
  • An Eruv for St Ives? religion, identity, place and conflict on the Sydney north shore
  • Australia ; Conflict ; Ideology ; Judaism ; Neighbourhood ; New South Wales ; Place ; Social geography ; Sydney ; Urban area ; Urban planning
  • This article examines religion, identity, place and conflict on the Sydney north shore through the attempt to create an eruv, a symbolic and only partly physical boundary around orthodox Jewish space. It explains that the place of an eruv
  • in such a way as to deny a place for an eruv in St Ives, and reinforced through the application of planning instruments which eventually refused permission for an eruv. To many residents, public space was seen to be at risk, raising complex questions over
  • amenity, the politics and perception of difference and what is in or out of place.
  • 2014
Local place names as a part of landscape memory (Case study from Haná region, Czech Republic)
  • Local place names as a part of landscape memory (Case study from Haná region, Czech Republic)
  • Cultural patrimony ; Cultural studies ; Czech Republic ; Hanakia ; Knowledge ; Memory ; Moravia ; Place names ; Primary education ; Questionnaire ; Regional identity ; Young people
  • This paper presents the research results regarding the level of knowledge of the landscape place names in the Haná region (Czech Republic) in children belonging to the age group of primary school pupils. It was revealed by the method
  • 2014
El retorno a la plaza : un caso de estudio en Concepción (Chile)
  • De retour sur la place publique : l'exemple de Concepción (Chili)
  • Chili ; Citoyenneté ; Communauté ; Concepción ; Espace social ; Espace urbain ; Géographie sociale ; Identité ; Place publique ; Séisme
  • L’A. analyse le rôle symbolique de la place du Pérou à Concepción (Chili) au cours du méga tremblement de terre de février 2010 et dans les jours suivants. Cet exemple permet d’illustrer de manière empirique la permanence territoriale de ce lieu et
  • son caractère symbolique. Il conclue que la place et la citoyenneté sont liées ensemble, rendant ainsi possible la survie de ce lieu et de l’identité collective.
  • 2014
Place ontologies and a new mobilities paradigm for understanding awareness of vulnerability to terrorism in American cities
  • Place ontologies and a new mobilities paradigm for understanding awareness of vulnerability to terrorism in American cities
  • Boston ; Massachusetts ; Mobility ; Ontology ; Place ; Political geography ; Risk ; Terrorism ; Transport ; Transport system ; United States of America ; Vulnerability
  • Drawing on interviews with 93 householders in Boston, Massachusetts, this article demonstrates that people perceive vulnerability via understanding the transportation environment as a place—not simply a conduit—and that these perceptions reflect
  • 2014
The forest is our inheritance’ : an introduction to Semai Orang Asli place-naming and belonging in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve
  • The forest is our inheritance’ : an introduction to Semai Orang Asli place-naming and belonging in the Bukit Tapah Forest Reserve
  • Community ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic minority ; Forest ; Jawa ; Malaysia ; Place names ; Tradition ; Vegetation ; Way of life
  • Reserve, the forest continues to be where Semai conceptions of history and lore are encoded in the geographical particulars of the landscape. A thriving forest-dependent lifestyle maintains and transmits Semai place knowledge, observed in this research
  • through people's command of ancestral place-names. This paper provides an introduction to Semai toponymy and considers the implications of indigenous place-names on the protection of indigenous homelands and ways of life.
  • 2014
Opredelenie èkologičeskogo stoka na rekah rajonov razrabotok rossypnyh mestoroždenij (na primere vodotokov Korâkskogo nagor'â)
  • Identification du débit écologique des cours d’eau dans les zones d’exploitation de placers (exemple des cours d’eau des montagnes de Koryak)
  • Cours d'eau ; Dal'nij Vostok ; Distribution spatiale ; Débit ; Ecologie ; Exploitation minière ; Hydrologie ; Montagnes de Koryak ; Méthodologie ; Placer ; Russie d'Asie ; Régime hydrologique
  • Asian part of Russia ; Discharge ; Ecology ; Hydrological regime ; Hydrology ; Methodology ; Mining activity ; Placer ; Russian Far East ; Spatial distribution ; Stream
  • Caudal ; Corriente de agua ; Distribución espacial ; Ecología ; Explotación minera ; Extremo Oriente ruso ; Hidrología ; Metodología ; Placer ; Rusia de Asia ; Régimen hidrológico
  • gisements de placers.
  • 2014
Analysing place and place-making : urbanization in suburban Oslo
  • Analysing place and place-making : urbanization in suburban Oslo
  • Constructivism ; Knowledge ; Norway ; Oslo ; Place ; Social representation ; Suburbs ; Urban administration ; Urban planning ; Urbanization
  • 2014
Mobile places, relational spaces: conceptualizing change in Sydney’s LGBTQ neighborhoods
  • Mobile places, relational spaces: conceptualizing change in Sydney’s LGBTQ neighborhoods
  • of ‘place making’ and ‘mobility’ to LGBTQ lives, communities, and politics.
  • 2014
Art-making as place-making following disaster
  • Art-making as place-making following disaster
  • Art ; Behaviour ; Catastrophe ; Earthquake ; Haiti ; Humanism ; Literature ; Place ; Resilience ; Urban reconstruction
  • 2014
Between places and flows : towards a new agenda for neighbourhood research in a age of mobility
  • Between places and flows : towards a new agenda for neighbourhood research in a age of mobility
  • Deterritorialization ; Flow ; Local population ; Mobility ; Neighbourhood ; Neighbourhood effect ; Paradigm ; Place ; Social capital ; Social geography ; Urban area
  • 2014
Placer les paysages ordinaires au centre d'une pédagogie
  • Placer les paysages ordinaires au centre d'une pédagogie
  • centrée sur l'analyse et la transformation du cadre de vie. Une telle utopie pédagogique est un moyen d'interroger la place et la contribution de la géographie dans la formation des paysagistes.
  • 2014
Habit, memory, and the persistence of Socialist-era street names in postsocialist Bucharest, Romania
  • Bucharest ; Market ; Place ; Place names ; Romania ; Social geography ; Street
  • the “users” of place names react to the changes of such names and create their own meanings in relation to them in ways unintended by elites.
  • 2014
Forms and sources of place attachment : evidence from two protected areas
  • Forms and sources of place attachment : evidence from two protected areas
  • Australia ; Cognitive process ; Emotion ; Nature park ; Perception ; Place ; Protected area ; Qualitative analysis ; Sense of belonging
  • 2014
Poverty, place, and rurality : material and sociocultural disconnections
  • Poverty, place, and rurality : material and sociocultural disconnections
  • is also bound up with particular moral discourses of welfare and rurality that act to perpetuate situations of material poverty within rural places.
  • 2014
Geographical narratives of social capital : telling different stories about the socio-economy with context, place, power and agency
  • Geographical narratives of social capital : telling different stories about the socio-economy with context, place, power and agency
  • Discourse ; Economy ; Place ; Power ; Social capital
  • 2014
Youth drinking in public places : the production of drinking spaces in and outside nightlife areas
  • Youth drinking in public places : the production of drinking spaces in and outside nightlife areas
  • This article analyses youth drinking in public places through the production of drinking spaces in and outside nightlife areas in Zurich, Switzerland. The results suggest that the normative landscapes of drinking are constructed differently
  • 2014
Indigenous rough sleeping in Darwin, Australia : ‘out of place’ in an urban setting
  • Indigenous rough sleeping in Darwin, Australia : ‘out of place’ in an urban setting
  • rough sleeping are embedded within condoned poverty and discriminatory legislation directed towards Indigenous people. They are constructed as out of place in urban environments and rather than housing and welfare, the focus is directed towards moving
  • 2014