Who belongs to Glasgow?

# 2.3 Watching the programme

## Activity 1: Watching the programme

There are two main themes to consider as you watch the programme:

- (a) Image and identity

  - Note down examples of images of Glasgow. What/who is represented? What/who is not represented? Are there different interpretations of the images? Has this image been challenged – how and by whom?

  - You could use a rough matrix to help in this. For example:

Click here to open a printable matrix for your notes.

- (b) Uniqueness and interdependence

  - What wider (global) relationships have contributed to Glasgow's (local) character/distinctiveness?

## Activity 2: After the programme

1. Briefly, try to develop the two themes in Activity 1 in relation to concepts of geographical imaginations, power relations, local-global relations.

- (a) Starting with your notes about images:

  - What do these images contribute to Glasgow's identity?

  - How have the images been ‘constructed’?

  - Whose interests have been represented and whose suppressed?

  - How is this conflict of interests represented?

  - What do we mean by ‘multiple identities’?

  - How can a place mean more than just one thing?

  - What does all this tell us about power relations in Glasgow?

- (b) Using your examples of local-global relationships:

  - How has Glasgow's uniqueness been constructed and reconstructed? What interrelationships have been involved?

  - In what ways does Glasgow's identity result from ‘what Glasgow is not’?

- (c) Note briefly how we have used our concept of geographical imaginations to explore Glasgow's uniqueness.

2. Think about these issues in relation to another place or other places.

- What is being represented/promoted?

- Who gains and who loses?

3. The main points to grasp from this programme are:

- that ‘image and identity’ are central to our geographical imagination;

- that images and identities are socially constructed and are not neutral or objective: how we define a place reflects and affects our attitudes towards it and our experience of it;

- that images are selective;

- that places have multiple identities;

- that images and identities are open to and reflect varied interpretations;

- that these interpretations may frequently be contested;

- that uniqueness of place is constructed out of local-global interdependencies.

Click to watch Part 1 of the TV programme. (5 minutes)

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Click to watch Part 3 of the TV programme. (8 minutes)

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