ABSTRACT
This chapter frames the definition of place within geographical thought, place is not solely the province of geographers, it underpins a range of disciplines, and, in terms of its study, 'benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. It draws from such disciplines in framing the theoretical and methodological discussions that underpin both place and everyday life. The place and the practice of everyday life are inextricably interconnected, both contingent and mutually interdependent. Modern geographical understandings of place have been debated and developed since the 1970s and were prompted by the emergence of humanistic geographers who rejected the postwar scientific and quantitative approach and the emphasis placed on space. Whereas a humanistic geographic approach focused on the specific essences of places and the world constructed through a series of discrete entities, a relational approach understands the world as formed through the way in which things relate to each other.
