Sammendrag
To have a concept is to understand a category. To have a concept hence means that one understands what the category includes and excludes - one understand conceptual boundaries. One also understands the nature of the included items so that one can relate to them in an appropriate manner. We put concepts together in order to classify and categorize the world � to give it meaning and direction. Once we have classified and categorized we have taken a stand as to how to be in the world. Consequently, concepts do things. Conceptual practice, as one way of being in the world, is, however, social practice. The consequences of concepts are the concept practitioners� doing � we are the boundary makers. Geographers have since long employed the concepts of landscape and place to categorize and classify the world. Their meaning is, however, multifarious, and their relationship at times blurred and confusing: sometimes they are used interchangeably, sometimes they are seen as completely different phenomena. What the categories of landscape and place include and exclude is hence subject to debate. Terminological precision, or the lack of it, is an expression of boundary making. Conceptual boundary making can furthermore be seen as expressing forms of ownership, not only of the concepts themselves but also to what the concepts ultimately are referring to. This paper seeks to examine, first, how notions of ownership are inherent in conceptual practices, and second, how discourses, primarily among geographers, on landscape and place are affected by the practitioners� boundary making.
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