Changing Places Summary
,Concept of place
• Places = important to people’s identity
• Local newspapers/events, nimbyism, calls for more local representati
(Cornwall), nationalism (shared language, sporting events)
• Protests can be informed by the place they’re in
• Extinction Rebellion in 2019 > Shutting down streets in London
, Global concepts of space
• Globalisation has arguably made place less important > increa
presence of chains, ‘clone towns’, ‘placelessness’
• Glocalisation > large chains adapting to local conditions (eg.
McDonalds regional menus)
• Resistance
- Totnes à 2012, Costa was trying to open an outlet but within weeks 3
of the town had signed a petition promising to boycott any chain coffe
shop that came to the town and the costa never opened
- But a branch from another coffee chain did open there in 2019
,Concept of place
• Places = important to people’s identity
• Local newspapers/events, nimbyism, calls for more local representati
(Cornwall), nationalism (shared language, sporting events)
• Protests can be informed by the place they’re in
• Extinction Rebellion in 2019 > Shutting down streets in London
, Global concepts of space
• Globalisation has arguably made place less important > increa
presence of chains, ‘clone towns’, ‘placelessness’
• Glocalisation > large chains adapting to local conditions (eg.
McDonalds regional menus)
• Resistance
- Totnes à 2012, Costa was trying to open an outlet but within weeks 3
of the town had signed a petition promising to boycott any chain coffe
shop that came to the town and the costa never opened
- But a branch from another coffee chain did open there in 2019
