Genealogy of Place- second half

The second half of chapter two talks about mobility in relation to space. The idea is that mobile bodies combine in space and time to produce an existential "insideness". Places performed on a daily basis through people living their every day lives makes people feel apart of their space. It is through participating in these daily performances that we get to know a place and feel apart of it.

However, laws and rules pervade place causing a lack of complete control over your space. Such as parking rules or social rules. Place is made and remade on a daily basis.

Cronon's work shows us that places need to be understood throught the paths that lead in and out. Places need to be understood as sites that are connected to others around the world in constantly evolving networks which are social, culture and natural environment. Places are further tied into global flows of people, meaning, and things. Sometimes the mobility of people, objects and ideas undermine place productivity causing a placeslessness or "non-place."

Relph makes direct connection between inauthentic placelessness and mobility. He says that the mobility of American homeowners reduce the significance of home which plays an important role in growing problems of placelessness in the modern world. He claims another factor is modern travel and tourism which encourages a fascination with the machinery and paraphernalia of travel. For example, where someone goes is not as important as the style and the act of going.

Tuan says the businessman symbolizes disconnection of place with mobility. The businessman is always away from home and constantly surrounded by people but forms no sincere relationships.

I find it interesting the connections that is made between mobility and placelessness. I agree that constantly moving into several spaces can cause the places you go to have less significance forming a disconnection because you are not in one place long enough to build any concrete experiences. However, I believe that by traveling and coming into contact with several different spaces can build your idea of "place" that inturn can enhance you experience in a place that is known to you.