Julia Bennett

Julia Bennett
University of Chester | UC · Faculty of Social Science

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Lighting up darkness is a material practice shared across many cultures. Lighting up winter darkness is a particular concern in urban areas in order to make urban spaces feel safer and more welcoming. Temporary lights, often characterised as ‘Christmas’ or ‘Winter’ lights, are installed over the darkest period of the year (December in the northern...
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Taking a biographical approach, this paper uses life history narratives across four generations of families living and working in Wigan, Lancashire to analyse social and cultural changes in working life biographies over the past 80 years. Beginning with those who left school at 14, prior to the 1944 Education Act up to the present, where young peop...
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This special 30th-anniversary issue of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology (summer/fall 2019) includes the following items:  An “in memoriam” for phenomenological sociologist George Psathas, who died last November;  “Book notes” on philosopher Dan Zahavi’s Phenomenology: The Basics; and naturalist Paul Krafel’s Roaming Upward;  The t...
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This article adds to current debates on the nature of English identity through examining some of what Kathleen Stewart calls the ‘incommensurate qualities that … link complexly’ to create a certain feel of a place. Based on the premise that landscape and the story of the landscape, its history, are key elements of a national identity, the article e...
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This is a story of community protest, natural landscape, and the conservation of a small area of National Trust land in North West England. Taking an ethnographic approach into the history of this conflict over the management of nature, this research examines contested perceptions of an area of countryside with the national designation of a “site o...
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Belonging is usually seen as a taken-for-granted, and perhaps ill-defined, aspect of everyday life. Through looking at the weather, family life and the local neighbourhood, this article argues that belonging should be recognised as an active and rhythmic practice, creating and recreating relationships, or an ‘ethic of care’, between people, place a...
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Studying change is at the heart of any investigation into social life, whilst continuity is seen as central to a stable identity over time. Change is an unsettling, but inevitable, part of everyday life; continuity speaks of repetition over time, unity and the comfort of belonging. This article examines how themes of nostalgia and authenticity are...
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This paper focuses on the importance of historic, social, and material connections in belonging to place. Mauss's anthropological concept of a 'gift' is deployed to understand how places are cared for by a community over time. The development of tangible and intangible connections between past, present, and future people and places is explored. On...
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This article examines how ‘race’ impacts upon the lives of young people who attend secondary schools in a mainly white British area of the United Kingdom. Schools Stand up 2 Racism (SSu2R), a Big Lottery research project, brought together a community partner - the Cheshire, Halton and Warrington Race and Equality Centre - and a team from Manchester...
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How can the intangible aspects of everyday life be uncovered? A phenomenological approach has its origins in the everyday but also allows everything to be questioned. In studying belonging a phenomenological approach supported by a variety of qualitative methods produced a wealth of 'insider' information that could have been missed using more tradi...

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