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Framing in public decision interactions: Transferring theory to practice
... Understanding framing can be useful for public decision making in contexts with clear physical and spatial consequences, such as planning, public administration, social impact, religious disputes and dispute resolution . Insights gained from framing can also be used to contend with obstacles hindering negotiation, as frames provide mediators and stakeholders with an understanding of situations and the parties involved that goes deeper than simple arguments do, and may indicate potential obstacles and avenues for reframing (Kaufman & Shmueli, 2011; Kaufman & Gray, 2003). The frequent use of frame analysis in social sciences has ultimately resulted in its application to tourism research. ...
... This approach is meant to assist in finding common ground and to facilitate efforts to resolve disputes by generating a better understanding of their dynamics. By communicating their value-based framing , stakeholders are able to couch their interests and arguments in language (or frames) that is understandable to other stakeholders, addressing them on their own terms in order to improve communication and increase the likelihood of a mutually beneficial outcome (Kaufman & Shmueli, 2011 ). More than that the study enabled us to better understand why a site with an identity differing from that of the host community does, or does not, spark conflict, as much depends on the process itself as was seen in the Baha'i case. ...
... Understanding framing can be useful for public decision making in contexts with clear physical and spatial consequences, such as planning, public administration, social impact, religious disputes and dispute resolution. Insights gained from framing can also be used to contend with obstacles hindering negotiation, as frames provide mediators and stakeholders with an understanding of situations and the parties involved that goes deeper than simple arguments do, and may indicate potential obstacles and avenues for reframing ( Kaufman & Shmueli, 2011;Kaufman & Gray, 2003). The frequent use of frame analysis in social sciences has ultimately resulted in its application to tourism research. ...
... This approach is meant to assist in finding common ground and to facilitate efforts to resolve disputes by generating a better understanding of their dynamics. By communicating their value-based framing, stakeholders are able to couch their interests and arguments in language (or frames) that is understandable to other stakeholders, addressing them on their own terms in order to improve communication and increase the likelihood of a mutually beneficial outcome ( Kaufman & Shmueli, 2011). More than that the study enabled us to better understand why a site with an identity differing from that of the host community does, or does not, spark conflict, as much depends on the process itself as was seen in the Baha'i case. ...
... Therefore, framing knowledge can be useful for the practice of public decision-making in contexts with clear physical and spatial consequences. Framing insights can also be used to contend with obstacles to negotiation (Kaufman & Shmueli 2011). This paper presents the application of frame analysis to spatial conflicts over religious sites with significant social impacts, and aims to provide a perspective for understanding conflict analysis in social geographical research. ...
... The typology used in this research (retrospectively in the Mormon case) aims at identifying the foci of conflict over religious sites, and potentially assist disputants in finding common ground, in efforts to resolve disputes by generating better understanding of their dynamics. By understanding the value-based frames involved in a dispute, stakeholders may be able to couch their interests and arguments in language (or frames) understandable to other stakeholders, addressing them on their terms in order to improve communication and increase the likelihood of a mutually beneficial outcome (Kaufman & Shmueli 2011). By employing a model of frame analysis we identified three prevailing super frames: issues, process, and values. ...
The paper's aims are twofold: first to present framing methodology as an approach which provides insights into conflicts stemming from the construction of new religious sites. Second, to analyse the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center, using framing in order to understand the spatial-religious conflicts involved in its establishment. The findings fall within three frame categories (‘super-frames’) identified in the research: ‘process’, ‘values’, and ‘issues’. The findings reveal that the discord surrounding the BYU Center had to do primarily with process and the values, and not around the issues themselves. The methodology provides a typology for understanding and analysing the different stories told by stakeholders involved in spatial-religious conflicts where the decision adopted might be perceived as endangering identity and ‘sense of place’. The typology may be helpful in the analysis of similar disputes elsewhere, and shed light on ways to reframe conflicts over sacred place
... This is no guarantee that such conflicts will be resolved, but framing does open avenues for joint gains during the negotiation process. A caveat and focus of further efforts (Shmueli and Ben-Gal, 2005;Kaufman and Shmueli, forthcoming) is that framing, whether by researchers or interveners, is an arduous task. The labor-intensive nature of the coding which provides methodological rigor and a useful database, may also be a disincentive for those who could benefit from this information. ...
In recent years, the presence of immersive virtual reality (VR) in everyday life has increased, and VR is also being studied in research. However, this research is essentially limited to technical issues, while the social relevance of VR remains largely unconsidered. Current social science research on VR remains bound to an empiricist paradigm; a theoretical framing is only done in exceptions. This article presents current social science theories related to space and landscape research, describes their application and potentials, with regard to the investigation of virtual spaces, and discusses which theoretical positions are suitable for the investigation of particular immersive VR-related questions. This investigation presents a range of approaches such as essentialism, positivism, and constructivism; theories such as critical, conflict, and discourse; and more-than-representational theories such as Phenomenology, Assemblage, and Actor-Network-Theory.
When applied to environmental concerns, framing offers a rigorous conceptual and analytic approach with potentially practical significance for dealing with complex issues relevant to geography. The purpose of this article is to introduce framing concepts, typology and modes of analysis to address issues which geographers commonly treat: disputes over land ownership and uses, competition for water resources, cultural clashes over control of territory and resources and the impact of spatial patterns and structures when siting noxious sites. Framing analysis is applied to three cases of environmental conflict in Israel and, more generally, for understanding conflicts revolving around the management of human habitats in relation to the physical environment.
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