Mclay And Mccallister's Why Place Matters By M. Mcallister

In McClay and McAllister’s “Why Place Matters,” they argue that space is not important to society or individuals due to globalization. Globalization has happened because of the technological advances of communication and transportation, which make it easy to move people, products, and ideas. The authors claim that place is an important aspect to us as individuals because if not important we risk forfeiting the reality of embodiment, the basis for healthy and resilient individual identity, and preconditions for cultivating of people’s virtues. One can only be a citizen of a physical place not to a website or cloud of information. Seeing friends and family through a screen isn’t the same as interacting with them in person. Physical places serve …show more content…
We find it difficult to let go of meaningful things or places. If we have the ability to keep it, we do. The hardest things to let go are the one you devote time to or develop special meaning too. We are stubborn at times take the Millers form “Settling Down” they were devastated by three tornados but remained in the same place. They rebuilt repeatedly because to them those acres where precious. They have worked on that land and it wasn’t exchangeable. That land meant something, and the meaning only increased after every disaster. Sense of place is important to us and when we find a place that we felt like we belong in, thus investing time, money, and sweat on it we get attached. Place matters to us because it’s a part of …show more content…
Sense of place is extremely important to our way of life in terms of being who we really are. Not having or be able to connect to the physical places that surrounds you can be frustrating. When your feel like you belong in a place you will develop a special meaning with that place. You will begin to care about what is around you due to the connection you have with the place. Certain places are important to us because of the meaning we put to it. If we didn’t put meaning to the places that are around us every place would feel the same. For example, Winston from 1984 put meaning to the room he rented above the proletariat shop, “Now that they had a secure hiding-place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time.” (1984 189), this place was significant to Winston because it was where he could rebel without worrying about anyone watching him. This place became like a home to Winston because it was where he could think, have affairs with Julia, and rebel. Winston felt as though he belonged in that room because he was comfortable enough to rebel in that