文摘
While geographers have a long fascination with the concept of place, the study of place is less than straightforward due to the temporary and shifting nature of both place and people's relationships to place. However, investigations of people's sense of place remain an important avenue of inquiry to help understand how people develop relationships with their selves and with their environment. This paper builds on feminist and humanistic frameworks to better understand the interconnections between the self, the body, and place, specifically in childhood where a sense of place begins to take shape. Drawing on an ethnographic study which incorporated a photography project with 19 children aged 9-11 years in a rural New Zealand town, I argue that places become meaningful based on a complex set of embodied sensory emotions the children experienced with their environment. This paper provides a prescriptive approach to untangling each of the five senses, additionally incorporates the sense of movement, and introduces the concept of a sense of voice, to bring attention to how prevalent embodied sensations are to children's sense of place.
