ABSTRACT
As we have seen, cultural geography is all about taking and making place. Every action we engage in contributes to the cultural world, leaving a trace that affects the identity of who we are and where we are. Places are (b)ordered in line with our ideas, with cultural and geographical regulations constructed to classify places for particular people and uses. We have seen in previous chapters how places become (b)ordered in line with orthodox ideas about culture and nature, about ethnicity, about nationalism and religion. Our own individual senses of place are created within and increasingly across these (b)orders; our own places sometimes fit snugly amongst the (b)orders constructed by the mainstream, at other times we have to create new places in order to be ourselves. This chapter focuses on one cultural group within western society that traditionally has no sense of place within the mainstream. As a consequence, this group takes and makes place on the margins, redefining themselves in ways that give us new insights into the cultural geographies around us.
