ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some of the ways in which concepts derived from humanistic geography have been adapted by geographers to introduce new dimensions into the study of the relationships between people and places. It particularly focuses on the idea that places and landscapes are potentially experienced differently by different people. That people are separated along many lines of difference influencing their feelings for certain places. The chapter considers places and landscapes in terms of their embeddedness in networks of social relations for example the unequal relationship that exists between men and women. The different people will engage with places and landscapes in very different ways, suggesting that it is difficult to support the idea of an immutable genius loci. The place meanings are constructed and mediated through language, rather than being inherent in any place.
