Seeking sense of place: Reflections on study abroad, becoming an international geographer, and living a mobile lifestyle

This chapter focuses on sense of place and sport landscapes shared by Haitians and Dominicans. Everyday landscapes are represented and constructed differently around the world in various places. Humanist geographers began to explore unknown geographical phenomena to present outsiders with an imagination, or a way of producing knowledge of places, landscapes, and associated histories founded on experiences. They implement subjective and reflective research techniques, bottom-up analyses aimed at understanding experiences, foundations of human inquiry, and attachments to, and senses of place. Social and cultural geographers focus much attention on how people create a sense of place. The general practice of thought among humanist geographers is that ‘place’ is created by social participants. Neohumanist geographers have adapted and developed more critically conceptual approaches to position meanings involving everyday experiences. P. C. Adams et al. acknowledge that nascent humanist thought is concerned with social and material constructions, adding validity to the multiplicity of contexts involved when evaluating sense of place.