Introduction to the theme issue: “Mental maps: geographical and historical perspectives”

Götz, Norbert; Holmén, Janne

doi:10.1080/08873631.2018.1426953

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“…The concept of a mental map, i.e., a subjective image of geographical space in the human mind, unique for each observer, is based on individual experience and information level (mental landscape), and is well established in geography, behavioral sciences, and psychology. Many researchers emphasize that the spatial preferences of the population and related behaviors depend not so much on the objective characteristics of the environment as on their transformed subjective reflection in the mind of every human being (e.g., [95,96]). The mental map is unique for each person, because each person has an individual set of personal experiences and level of information.…”

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Evaluation of Soundscapes in Urban Parks in Olsztyn (Poland) for Improvement of Landscape Design and Management

Jaszczak

Małkowska

Kristiánová

et al. 2021

Land

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Soundscape analyses and noise measurements should be a part of pre-design works involved in planning green areas in city centers. The aim of the study was to conduct a multi-criteria analysis of the soundscape of three parks in Olsztyn (Poland) as a part of the landscape planning process to determine the directions of re-design of places most exposed to noise. The research included: 1. functional and spatial analysis of the park surroundings in reference to the city environment, 2. analysis of the acoustic map, 3. measurements of sound pressure levels (SPL) at selected points in two periods (leafless and leafy), 4. analysis of characteristic sounds, 5. interview with park users and preparation of a mental map. The results of research regarding the perception of the soundscape of all three parks by respondents differ slightly from the results of both the acoustic map and SPL measurements. The results also confirm the difference between SPL in the leafless and leafy period. Places most exposed to noise are located at the park boundaries along the main access roads, and at park entrances. Recommendations and sample solutions are proposed, based on two suggested design activities, namely the reduction of undesirable sounds, and introduction of desirable sounds to the parks.

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Section: Test II Interviews With Park Users Mental Mapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of Soundscapes in Urban Parks in Olsztyn (Poland) for Improvement of Landscape Design and Management

Jaszczak

Małkowska

Kristiánová

et al. 2021

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“…She addresses these issues by using a geographical imaginations approach and deploying mental maps as her tool of choice. Mental mapping is a visual and participatory method that recognizes that people carry in their heads “socio‐spatial hierarchies of the world” which influence how they “orient themselves in their environment, or […] perceive the world” (Götz & Holmén, 2018, p.157). During her interviews with nursing students and graduates in Metro Manila, Thompson engages in participatory research by asking her participants to draw “maps” of the world including places they know on a blank piece of paper, annotating these maps with their own understandings of these places.…”

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Methodological innovations in studying multinational migrations

Paul

Yeoh

2020

Geographical Research

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A growing body of migration scholarship has highlighted the inadequacies of a single‐origin, single‐destination model for thinking about international migration in the 21st century. Multinational migrations—involving the varied movements of international migrants across more than one overseas destination with significant time spent in each overseas country—have been observed among high‐skilled migrants, low‐wage labour migrants, and documented and undocumented migrants. But given the extended temporality, multispatiality, and complexity of multinational migrations, the study of such onward movements can be fraught with difficulty. These methodological challenges must be added to the existing issues surrounding most international migration scholarship: methodological nationalism, essentialism, and skewed positionality. This special section highlights a range of research methods and approaches well suited to addressing these concerns. Collectively, the papers investigate various patterns of multinational migration across a range of migrant categories and spanning multiple world regions, addressing questions about the prevalence and drivers of these complex processes. They also offer a toolkit of methodological approaches—including mental mapping, trajectory analysis, attending to the family/household as the scale of analysis, multisited ethnographies, and longitudinal research—as suggested ways of studying multinational migrations.

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“…Mental maps, also known as cognitive maps, were first used in migration research in the 1960s. Although arguably all maps are ‘mental’ in that their “design rests on the decisions of mapmakers” (Götz & Holmén, 2018, p. 157; see also Bjørn & Michael, 1987), mental maps refer not to fixed cartographic representations but to the imaginative ways individuals and groups understand spatial meaning in the world. Mental maps were initially employed in behavioural geography during the quantitative revolution, most commonly in urban planning and travel studies (Hannes et al, 2012).…”

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Mental mapping and multinational migrations: A geographical imaginations approach

Thompson

2020

Geographical Research

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Investigating migration decision‐making raises certain methodological issues because of the complexity of these practices and the diverse possibilities that exist for aspiring migrants. Migrants are increasingly engaging in multiple migrations, moving between various locations in three or more international destinations. Particularly in Asia, where short‐term temporary contracts are increasingly the norm for labour migrants, it becomes counter‐productive to analyse migration decision‐making as a movement from one place to another. Based on research undertaken in Metro Manila, the Philippines, with 48 Filipino nurses, this article addresses how to do research related to the multinational migration pathways that structure migration goals and aspirations through demonstrating the benefits and practicalities of mental mapping, a participatory visual method. By exploring the geographical imaginations of migrants and aspiring migrants, multinational pathways are shown to be planned for at the earliest stage of migration. Overall, the work reported here leads to the conclusion that researchers need to consider multiple migrations in more multidirectional and messy terms.

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Introduction to the theme issue: “Mental maps: geographical and historical perspectives”

Cited by 32 publications

References 10 publications

Evaluation of Soundscapes in Urban Parks in Olsztyn (Poland) for Improvement of Landscape Design and Management

Evaluation of Soundscapes in Urban Parks in Olsztyn (Poland) for Improvement of Landscape Design and Management

Methodological innovations in studying multinational migrations

Mental mapping and multinational migrations: A geographical imaginations approach

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