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Geography 111: Human Geography

Geography 111: Human Geography. Office hours. PROFESSOR ZOLTÁN GROSSMAN 258 Phillips Hall 10:00-10:50 MWF Tel. 836-4471 E-mail: grossmzc@uwec.edu Web: www.uwec.edu/grossmzc. Geography is not just about. Memorizing place names and boundaries.

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Geography 111: Human Geography

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  1. Geography 111:Human Geography

  2. Office hours PROFESSOR ZOLTÁN GROSSMAN 258 Phillips Hall 10:00-10:50 MWF Tel. 836-4471 E-mail: grossmzc@uwec.edu Web: www.uwec.edu/grossmzc

  3. Geography is not just about... • Memorizing place names and boundaries. (though you need to learn context through maps) • Where things and people are located (though you need basic descriptive background)

  4. Geography is about... • Why things and people are where they are. • How people, things and places interact with each other.

  5. Fields of Geography Physical Geography Human Geography People/environment interaction

  6. Geography crosses thehuman-nature border

  7. Geography comparesdifferent places Eau Claire-sur-le-Chippewa Paris-sur-la-Seine

  8. Geography comparesdifferent scales

  9. Geography studies realityon the ground, over time Hayward

  10. Geography studies anythingrelated to place

  11. Zoltán “Zoltan, Hound of Dracula” Zoltarin “Big” Zoltan, ImperialCommander of the Space Nerds

  12. Hungarian for “Sultan”(from the Ottoman Turkishoccupation of Hungary, 1526-1686)

  13. Geography breaksdown boundaries • Can cross nature-human border. • Can compare different places/regions. • Can compare different scales (local, national, global) • Can study reality on the ground, over time. • Can study anything related to place(s).

  14. Human Geography studies… • How human beings organize our activity spatially, and interact with our environment. • How and why places are made and remade, and how our home places shape who we are. • How different places interact spatially.

  15. What Human Geographers Do Human Geography involves the investigation of the relationship between people and place. “The Earth as the home of human beings.” (Yi-Fu Tuan) “Writing the earth”: ‘to write” (graphien) the earth (geo)”.

  16. Making Space into Place Space is abstract, geometric, empty, like an impersonal location on a grid Place is constructed by human beings, and given meaning through social interaction/memories.

  17. What is a Place? • LOCALE (physical attributes of place) • LOCATION (relationship to other places) • SENSE OF PLACE (feelings evoked by place)

  18. Lambeau Field as a place • LOCALE (turf, players, stands, fans) • LOCATION (part of National Football League) • SENSE OF PLACE (Green & gold, Memories of Lombardi. Starr, etc.)

  19. Gettysburg as a place • LOCALE (grassy hills, forest, cannons, visitors) • LOCATION (part of Civil War strategy, part of National Park Service) • SENSE OF PLACE (Many soldiers buried, turning point in war, Lincoln speech)

  20. Earth as a place • LOCALE (physical geography) • LOCATION (in solar system; Sun effects weather, crops) • SENSE OF PLACE (mental map)

  21. Why Place Matters • All social activity is embedded in place • Places therefore provide the settings for people’s daily lives . • Social interaction in turn shapes the place.

  22. Human Geography Today • Studying the relationship of place to people as… • Social beings • Consumers • Producers

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