Meaning of placeful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Forming a well-defined place; acting as an identifiable location.
   not-comparable
2. Focused on a location and its properties.
   not-comparable
3. Characteristic of a specific locality;
   not-comparable

Examples

“This type of system is characteristic of the placeful extreme on the spatiality scale. This is because there is a place - the conference - in which the participants agree they are, in some sense, present.”

“Considering the sea as placeful allows going beyond substantialism in the analysis of mobilities. Indeed, rather than a product of the interactions between existing fixed entities (such as ship, sailors, goods), the placeful sea is itself an entity produced or performed by the continuous interactions of actors, nature and ideas and is therefore continuously defined and redefined (relationalism).”

“The Society sponsored Haus and Garten tours, Oktoberfest activities, "oompah" band parades, and a variety of "placeful" activities.”

“Traditionally, literary geographers have emphasized the importance of the regional novel's sensitive evocation of place, and we have been inundated by studies of such placeful novelists as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, Arnold Bennett, Francis Brett Young, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather.”

“But the placeful quality of the stories has to do with something more significant than the fact that my interest in them has been more geographical than historical.”

“There is, as Casey observed, a sensuousness to living intertwined with place and allowing ourselves to sense place in an embodied way: 'Not only is the sensuous senseful, it is also placeful' (Casey 1996: 19).”

“The discourse of the placeless ocean and the consequences of this for maritime ecosystems and their conservation is a useful way of conceptualising how African Environmental Ethics could be understood in a 'placeful' way and so and its capacity to provide new and dynamic ways of engaging with environmental thinking as a whole.”

“The structure is shaped to mingle in unison with the placeful environment of a theological seminary.”

“Cultural values other than "the most space per dollar" have come to the fore as rare, historic, or otherwise "placeful" architectural contexts attract attention.”

“The placeful qualities of each market contribute to the identity of regional landscape and the individual.”

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