Wiele miejsc – jedna przestrzeń
Many Places – One Space

Summary/Abstract: Yi Fu Tuan’s well known idea of relation between space and place (1987) depicts them as being mutually entwined. Nevertheless, past decades of increasing mobility resulted in the need of redefining the thus far known perception of space and place relation. The place is no longer discerned as permanent, it is based neither on historical references, nor on one's own memory and the memory of one's ancestors, nor on social bonds and interactions occurring in a specific space and at a specific time. The text’s thesis assumes that changing the place of residence due to the escalating mobility of contemporary world does not necessarily result in breaking the bonds with the previous location. Basing on the Creswell’s understanding of the matter (2004), the previous location becomes an open and dynamic place, which is still being created and is available for other people. This location is built upon multiple and various stories. In the following document the author pertains to the concept of transnationality and to the example of transnational families that create new space for family life in spatial separation.

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