Place, race and teaching geography.

Trata de la aportación que realizan la enseñanza de la geografía, y sus profesores del nivel de secundaria, a la educación en una sociedad multicultural. Éstos, se dan cuenta de que los programas escolares no reflejan las experiencias y las perspectivas de algunos de sus alumnos, procedentes de otras culturas y religiones. La respuesta a esto, fue reescribir los planes de estudio y sus textos, para permitir el estudio de culturas y modos de vida diferentes.

A sense of place. 1 : place and space in Britain.

Para alumnos que estudian geografía. El enfoque es presentar unas ideas a través de una serie de datos, textos, fotografías, dibujos, diagramas, estadísticas, mapas etc. Se hace hincapié en la comprensión de las ideas más que en la memorización de los hechos, si bien la adquisición de conocimientos de los lugares y de los pueblos se considera como un objetivo importante.

Understanding place as a process.

Se abordan las preocupaciones relacionadas con el estudio eficaz del concepto de lugar y se sugieren formas para que las teorías más recientes del pensamiento geográfico puedan servir para mejorar su comprensión en las clases de geografía. También, se define la nocion de lugar para distinguirlo de otro al que está vinculado de forma muy estrecha, el de espacio.

Problems in solving problems : what is new : are we looking at the correct Place?. 'Problemas sobre resolución de problemas : que hay de nuevo : ¿estamos mirando hacia el lugar correcto?'.

Resumen basado en el de la publicación

Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of place attachment scale for youth in residential care

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Remaking place and securitising space: Urban regeneration and the strategies, tactics and practices of policing in the UK

Urban regeneration programmes in the UK over the past 20 years have increasingly focused on attracting investors, middle-class shoppers and visitors by transforming places and creating new consumption spaces. Ensuring that places are safe and are seen to be safe has taken on greater salience as these flows of income are easily disrupted by changing perceptions of fear and the threat of crime. At the same time, new technologies and policing strategies and tactics have been adopted in a number of regeneration areas which seek to establish control over these new urban spaces. Policing space is increasingly about controlling human actions through design, surveillance technologies and codes of conduct and enforcement. Regeneration agencies and the police now work in partnerships to develop their strategies. At its most extreme, this can lead to the creation of zero-tolerance, or what Smith terms 'revanchist', measures aimed at particular social groups in an effort to sanitise space in the interests of capital accumulation. This paper, drawing on an examination of regeneration practices and processes in one of the UK's fastest-growing urban areas, Reading in Berkshire, assesses policing strategies and tactics in the wake of a major regeneration programme. It documents and discusses the discourses of regeneration that have developed in the town and the ways in which new urban spaces have been secured. It argues that, whilst security concerns have become embedded in institutional discourses and practices, the implementation of security measures has been mediated, in part, by the local socio-political relations in and through which they have been developed.

Framing the local and the global in the anti-nuclear movement: Law and the politics of place

This article examines the politics of place in relation to legal mobilization by the anti-nuclear movement. It examines two case examples - citizens' weapons inspections and civil disobedience strategies - which have involved the movement drawing upon the law in particular spatial contexts. The article begins by examining a number of factors which have been employed in recent social movement literature to explain strategy choice, including ideology, resources, political and legal opportunity, and framing. It then proceeds to argue that the issues of scale, space, and place play an important role in relation to framing by the movement in the two case examples. Both can be seen to involve scalar reframing, with the movement attempting to resist localizing tendencies and to replace them with a global frame. Both also involve an attempt to reframe the issue of nuclear weapons away from the contested frame of the past (unilateral disarmament) towards the more universal and widely accepted frame of international law.