Open Conference Systems, Nordic Geographers Meeting 2011

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Make sence of the experience of a place – with examples from Santiago Del Compostela
Mats Nilsson

Last modified: 2011-04-26

Abstract


Place meeting could well be both an ambiguous term as well as a multidimensional phenomenon. The focus of this presentation is expected to be the meeting between place identity / culture from the city of Santiago Del Compostela and the individual-based experience as pilgrims walker. What is being met? What is it that is visible in the meeting and what will become aware? What did the pilgrims' stories together and what makes them different? And why? All about mobilities between cultures, the individual culture and partly the long-standing place culture that holy places often stand for. Meetings between places and individuals could be temporary and / or transient in nature. Travel that are planned and stretched in time when they generally are carefully planned and often lasts for a relatively long time period in relation to an "ordinary" tourist trip, sometimes with different periods of time. The interaction between the site and the individual can of course vary, but what is the focus of this study is to show how it relates to on-site meeting situation. First, the culture and reason for the travel that you as an individual carrying around and also the culture as the site itself is portrayed as. Individual Place-Individual meetings could be considered as a situation in which individuals and places interact with multiple cultures and from this mix creates a sense of place and also if it has historically changes during the last centuries. To create awareness of it described above is relatively perspectives which is to stem an epistemological where everyone sees the world from their own perspective. Christian community historically is seen as a place bound western culture shape and identity. But today, global religions, seen as less place-bound and more mobility because they have a global pattern.

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