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... The desire for nostalgic or historical place identification, belonging and rootedness is widely understood as a reaction to global capitalism, urban restructuring and the threat of displacement (Massey, 1991;Harvey, 1993;Zukin, 2011). People are often not aware of their connection to place until it is threatened, and their familiarity with place, their habits within it and their sense of continuity disrupted (Manzo, 2003;Seamon, 2014). ...
... aesthetico-political regime of gentrification to Deptford, where place identities based on notions of history and heritage, community and multiculturalism, and creativity are developed into a brand to address sensibilities for historicity and authenticity (Harvey, 1993;Zukin, 2011). However, this organised, fast-track creation of place identity is not always reconcilable with sustaining place identification for existing long-term residents, displacing them from an emotional perspective (ibid.). ...
... The political economy of place is essential in understanding place attachment (Manzo, 2003, p. 54). Since post-industrial places and working-class people and culture are the main targets of regeneration and austerity programmes, place has class struggle inscribed into it (Lefebvre, 1991b;Harvey, 1993;Paton, 2014). Whilst the people facing displacement span a whole range of social groups and identities, urban restructuring is fundamentally a class issue ...
This thesis examines whether participatory arts practices can be deployed in changing urban contexts without getting co-opted into that change and, instead, help to resist its uneven aspects. It presents a participatory arts and research project which responds to the politics and aesthetics of 21st century state-led gentrification, with a specific focus on Deptford, south-east London (UK). The project challenges dominant gentrification narratives by making visible and audible a variety of alternative perspectives that highlight the lived experiences of gentrification-induced displacement. It proposes a novel art and research methodology that, while emphasising participation and ethical practice, pays attention to the politics and aesthetics of creative research. It is underpinned by feminist participatory action research and the radical tradition of community arts and activism. Combining sociological research with a community arts project and the production, publication and launch of a book, this research offers rich understandings of the lived experiences of gentrification-induced displacement while also enacting these representations in the public sphere to support local housing activism. Therefore, my practice not only counters widespread depoliticised participatory practices that make community artists complicit in uneven urban change, it also offers a counterpoint to urban research that, while critically describing processes of change, does little in the way of actively engaging with those processes.
This research is an example of public sociology, engaging with non-academic and academic audiences. Publishing the research data on alternative media under the title Deptford is Changing to encourage public debate also challenges traditional modes of dissemination. It offers space for a multiplicity of voices and forms of representations with the aim of addressing a wide and varied audience. It is recommended to read the accompanying book of the same title alongside this thesis (The book can be downloaded here: https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34788/). The thesis argues for a creative activist sociological imagination, a Radial Visual Sociology which gets actively and creatively involved in working towards social justice.
... Sociological and geographical theorising on space has emphasised conceptualising space and the social world as experienced and rendered sensible by social actors (Simmel 1903;Lefebvre 1974;Harvey 1993;Doreen Massey 1994). In Social Justice and the City, David Harvey (1973) writes that it is crucial to understand and reflect on the nature of space to understand urban processes under capitalism. ...
... Sociological and geographical theorising on space has emphasised conceptualising space and the social world as experienced and rendered sensible by social actors (Simmel 1903;Lefebvre 1974;Harvey 1993;Doreen Massey 1994). In Social Justice and the City, David Harvey (1973) writes that it is crucial to understand and reflect on the nature of space to understand urban processes under capitalism. To this end, I draw from critical and feminist geographies (Lefebvre 1974;Massey 1994;) that theorise space as deeply implicated in processes of social reproduction and underscore the constitutiveness of gender and space. ...
... Feminist geographer Doreen Massey (1994) propounds a theory of space critical of capital, as privileged in Marxist analyses of space (Lefebvre 1974;N. Smith and Harvey 1990;Harvey 1993). Massey (1994, 148) maintains that "there is much more determining how we experience space than what 'capital' gets up to". ...
... In the second half of the twentieth century, just as human geographers criticized modernist ideas of place, ecology took on greater social significance as part of a broader environmental movement responding to the environmental consequence of modernity (Walker 2020). This conception of ecology was rooted in the Enlightenment philosophy and transcendentalism (Harvey 1993). Thus, the study of ecology in the United States and Europe emerged from an epistemology that recognized the existence of "nature" and "natural" as real and distinct from humans and human development (Morton 2008). ...
... 3 Based on these assumptions, early attempts to understand the importance of place reified places as static containers of meaning (Cresswell 2013). But this way of thinking about place potentially serves exclusionary and unjust notions about the sanctity and authenticity of certain relationships between specific people and their conceptions of a place, which supports nationalist politics (see Harvey 1993). ...
... With an eye toward the dynamics and asymmetries of power, a relational concept of place emerged in the early 1990s to challenge these notions of place generally associated with humanistic geographers (Harvey 1993;Massey 1993). Writing about the inescapable politics of place, these critical geographers proposed a more open, dynamic, and progressive understanding where places are forged through relational processes constituted from larger networks and flows of people, goods, and ideas of local and global reach that support multiple identities (Massey 1993). ...
... En base a esta teoría, la literatura existente ha demostrado que las reacciones de los residentes de la comunidad sobre el turismo están en gran medida influenciadas por las percepciones del coste frente a los beneficios obtenidos (Teye et al., 2002). Desde el primer También se puede aplicar al caso analizado el marco teórico, fijado ya a finales del siglo pasado, de Harvey (1993). En él, se afirma que la complicidad popular con las actividades especulativas surge habitualmente de una mezcla de coerción y cooptación. ...
... En él, se afirma que la complicidad popular con las actividades especulativas surge habitualmente de una mezcla de coerción y cooptación. Siguiendo a Harvey (1993), la coerción nace de la competencia entre lugares por las inversiones de capital y el empleo. Hoy en día, el turismo juega un papel cada vez más importante en la vida económica de las ciudades, las cuales compiten entre sí (Istoc, 2012). ...
... Por su parte, y volviendo a Harvey (1993), la cooptación se organiza principalmente alrededor de: ...
La sustentabilidad turística en el turismo urbano y en las ciudades históricas es clave en el presente. El propósito de este artículo es entender un caso crítico de (in)sustentabilidad: el parque temático historicista de Puy du Fou España (PDFE) en Toledo. El caso es analizado con un enfoque holístico (ambiental, turístico y el papel de las partes interesadas o stakeholders). Se desarrolla un método deductivo. Se utiliza la documentación del proyecto y los medios de comunicación. De manera empírica, se ha realizado una encuesta entre los residentes sobre su opinión acerca de la apertura del parque. PDFE genera insustentabilidad ambiental, un grave impacto en la flora y fauna local, contaminación y una huella sobre el cambio climático e insustentabilidad turística, un posible aumento en una tercera parte del número de visitantes en Toledo y, con ello, del overtourism (sobrecarga turística). No obstante, los stakeholders apoyan decididamente el proyecto prefiriendo los resultados económicos a la idea de sustentabilidad. Las instituciones públicas han facilitado el parque temático con licencias urbanísticas y fiscales. Los actores privados se entusiasman ante la promesa del aumento de la actividad. La comunidad local, aunque con voces minoritarias contrarias, también apoya abiertamente a PDFE. Los resultados del artículo son de interés dado que la apertura de PDFE es un hito sin precedente en ninguna otra ciudad histórica europea por sus dimensiones y repercusiones y aquí es analizado académicamente.
... No Thais were showcased (except in the context of servitude), and no local facilities, whether hotels or restaurants, appeared. Ideology and power relations are rooted in the notion of what constitutes a place and how it is represented (Harvey, 1993). In this case, they enable the construction of an idealized Phuket through images and videos. ...
... First, major hotel groups have taken advantage of quality tourism to boost their portfolio during and after the pandemic. Marriott International Managing Director Anthony Ideology and power relations are rooted in the notion of what constitutes a place and how it is represented (Harvey, 1993). In this case, they enable the construction of an idealized Phuket through images and videos. ...
In its long-term vision for tourism development (2017–2036), Thailand has chosen to focus on the development of quality tourism, which is supposed to enable sustainable tourism development and a more inclusive sharing of tourism-generated revenues. However, the use of the term “quality tourism” remains conceptually unclear, and the means by which quality tourism will enable a more inclusive sharing of wealth remain ambiguous. Taking the tourist island of Phuket as a case study, we question how quality tourism has materialized on the island and how it has affected the configuration of power between large international hotel chains and local hotel operators regarding tourism development. Guided by a critical political economy framework and based on a qualitative methodology involving triangulation of data collection among official documents, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation, we argue that quality tourism in Phuket, although justified as a form of sustainable tourism, is more akin to luxury tourism. This has led to greater concentration of wealth among large hotel chains and real estate groups who have taken advantage of quality tourism-related policies to boost their portfolios at the expense of local stakeholders.
... In the late 1980s and early 1990s, geographer David Harvey (1989;1993) explored the new economic order and the evolving role of culture. He concluded that command over space and time is the most important element "in any search for profit" (Harvey, 1989, p. 226). ...
... The capitalist hegemony over space also prompted the revival of the aestheticization of place, which was transformed into "some kind of successful spectacle" in order to attract both capital and people (Harvey, 1989, p. 347). Observing the place as a social construct, Harvey (1993) believed that the landscape must also be reshaped in accordance with the new phase of socio-economic development. The shift of (economic) focus from production to consumption also led to the development of (spatial) attractions that aimed at economic profit, as well as image enhancement. ...
The new phase of socioeconomic development and the transition from the industrial to the post-industrial era also had its spatial consequences. The urban areas, previously intended for industrial production, were abandoned and devastated. The significance of creative industries is often linked to their catalytic role in regenerating such areas. To this end, the concepts of cultural quarters, creative clusters and creative cities emerged, aiming to revitalize deteriorated zones by assigning them new meanings and innovative content. As the entire concept of creative industries is closely related to the context and local management policies, the implementation of the ideas mainly depends on the local authorities. The focus of the study is on analysing the relationship between creative solutions and spatial issues. The goal of the study is to draw attention to both positive and negative outcomes of such an approach. Concluding considerations indicate that creativity in the urban environment hinges not only on management policies but also on citizen participation and civil initiatives that arise in response to official policies.
... Urban heritages are not only the bearers of urban history and culture but also the embodiment of urban space and time. The distribution of urban heritages, protection, and revitalization directly affect the spatial pattern of the city [9]. Heritage sites usually have a profound connection with the social, historical, and cultural aspects of the city. ...
... This study will shed light on the evolution of urban form, The spatial form mentioned in this study is not only the combination and distribution of various physical elements in the space but also the spatial form of the city under the influence of complex social culture. The evolution of the city also reflects the development of society and the evolution of the environment [8,9]. ...
The purpose of this paper is to study the spatial characteristics of urban heritage in the historical core area of Xi’an, China. The focus of the research is on the in-depth analysis of the changes in urban form in various historical stages, the functional distribution of urban heritage that remains, and the evolution of the boundaries, centres, and axes of urban space. These factors are the main elements that constitute the core of the city. Through in-depth analysis, we can clearly outline the evolution path of urban space in historical continuation and era change. This study adopts comprehensive research methods, including literature analysis, map visualisation, map overlay, and multiple research methods such as space syntax analysis. From the perspectives of functional complexity, spatial continuity, and space syntax, it comprehensively and systematically expounds and studies whether the spatial characteristics of urban heritage sites have gradually lost their core status in the process of urbanization. Such research can not only better understand and recognise the intrinsic value of urban heritage but also provide valuable experience for the sustainable development of urban heritage. The research results are of great significance to heritage protection, urban planning, and policy formulation and help to protect cultural heritage, guide urban planning, and provide substantive recommendations to policymakers.
... However, some crucial studies have emphasized spatial/location factors to determine poverty. The 'spatial turn' in urban sociology has directed attention to how spatial arrangements operate as constitutive dimensions of social phenomena and determine poverty and inequality (Gotham, 2003;Harvey, 1993;Löw & Steets, 2014). In this context, spatiality or locational correlates have evolved as a significant dimension of poverty. ...
... The present study also reveals very important fact that the location of slum households is the most dominant predictor of poverty. Many researchers focus on how spatial arrangements operate as constitutive dimensions of social phenomena and determine the level of poverty and inequality (Harvey, 1993;Smith, 1994;Soja, 2019). Spinks (2001) found that micro-level spatial inequality has facilitated polarisation between different urban spaces and their inhabitants in African cities. ...
Urban poverty is a complex phenomenon and people experiencing poverty suffer from various deprivations. Multidimensional poverty measurement has been one of the best indicators of this deprivation. In general, slum dwellers are considered homogenous groups, but it is not valid in multidimensional deprivation. This paper aims to find out the correlates of multidimensional poverty in slums. Spatiality and correlates of poverty in Varanasi City have been tapped using statistical modelling. The paper is based on primary data collected from 384 households through an interview schedule from 12 slums across three geographical zones of the city. The MPI index for slums, based on global MPI, was used to compute MPI for each geographical zone. Further ANOVA and hierarchical regression analysis were performed to find spatiality and correlates of multidimensional deprivation. The paper reveals that socio-religious categories, occupation and geographical location are significant determinants or at least correlates of multidimensional poverty in slums.
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... Accordingly, urban governance come to the fore with their entrepreneurial qualities rather than city administration. Creating an image by emphasizing the local is the most common form of this entrepreneurship (Harvey 1993(Harvey : 2015. Gaziantep has a strong food culture thanks to its geographical and historical features. ...
... Burada kent yönetimlerinin idari yaklaşımlarının artık girişimci bir nitelik kazandığına yönelik vurgu önemlidir. Buna göre, kentlerin kültürel kimliği, bunun üzerine konumlanan imajları ve yerel olanın özgünlüğünü ortaya çıkararak altını çizmek, bu girişimciliğin en genel görünümüdür (Harvey, 1993;. Harvey'in kent kimliği inşası sürecinde yerel yönetimlerin girişimci niteliklerine ve uyguladıkları politikalara olan bu vurgusu, süreç içerisinde kent belediyelerinin değişen yapısını vurgulamayı zaruri kılmaktadır. ...
Bu çalışma, Gaziantep kentinin kent kimliği inşasında öne çıkan faktörleri incelemektedir. Bu amaçla, çalışmada öncelikle kent kimliği kavramının ne anlama geldiği ve kent kimliği inşasında etkili faktörlerin neler olduğu ortaya konmuştur. 1970’li yıllarla beraber Amerika ve Avrupa kentlerinin kültürel unsurlarını kentlerin kimliklerine dahil ederek kent kimliklerini yeniden inşa ettiği bilinmektedir. 2000’li yıllara gelindiğinde küreselleşmenin de etkisiyle Türkiye kentleri için de kültürel unsurları kent kimliğine dahil etme süreci başlamıştır. Gaziantep kent kimliği gazi kent, sanayi kenti gibi kavramlarla ifade edilirken son yıllarda kent kimliğinin yeniden inşası söz konusu olmuştur. Gaziantep kenti 2015 yılında gastronomi alanında UNESCO’nun “Yaratıcı Şehirler Ağı”na dahil edilmiştir. Bu gelişmenin etkisiyle beraber kent kimliği gastronomi ve yemek kültürü bileşenleriyle yeniden inşa sürecine girmiştir. Gaziantep’te özellikle mutfağın koruma altına alınmasıyla ortaya çıkan kent kimliği inşasında hangi bileşenlerin öne çıktığını açıklayarak çözümlemek, çalışmanın öncelikli amaçlarından birini oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada, gastronomi kenti kimliğinin kültür endüstrisi kavramıyla ilişkisi ve kentin imajına etkisi ele alınmaktadır. Kent yönetiminin bu kimlik inşasındaki etkisi ve girişimci niteliğini çözümlemek çalışmanın bir diğer amacıdır. Kent girişimciliği kavramı David Harvey tarafından özellikle 1970’li yıllar sonrasında kentlerin yönetilme biçimlerindeki değişimi ortaya koymak için geliştirilmiştir. Buna göre kentlerin ilgi çekici unsurlarını öne çıkararak bir cazibe merkezi hâline gelme amacı girişimci kent yönetimlerinin ortak amacıdır. Çalışmaya konu olan Gaziantep kentinde mutfak ve yemek kültürü kullanılarak özellikle turistler için ilgi çekici bir merkez olabilme amacına yönelik politika ve projeler yürütülmektedir. Bu makale, kent yönetiminin girişimci niteliğini ve kent kimliğinin yeniden inşasında oynadığı rolü örneklerle açıklamaktadır.
... Consequently, in the spatial context, we must face the challenge of redefining our research approaches as our understanding of space is transformed into new dimensions (Harvey, 2012). Since the 1980s and 1990s, there has been intense reflection on the complexities of social space (Soja, 1989;Merriman et al., 2012;Massey, 2013). ...
This study examines the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks at a local scale in the context of demographic structure in rural areas. According to the main assumptions, Wi-Fi networks can be treated as hidden gateways to digital space. Identifying and mapping these hidden gateways can reveal the complexity of human activities as they function across real and digital spaces and in between them. The authors explore the influence of the local spatial distribution of different age groups on the distribution of Wi-Fi networks, as well as the correlation between the spatial patterns of hidden gateways and demographic structures. The research was conducted in the rural areas of five communes in Poland. Data were collected through the wardriving method using the WiGLE app and subsequently analysed employing geostatistical techniques. The results confirmed a relationship between population density and the number of Wi-Fi networks, indicating that areas with higher populations are more likely to have access to these networks. Additionally, the study found that the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks closely aligns with the presence of younger age groups, highlighting the role of demographics in shaping access to digital connectivity. This research suggests that future studies should integrate additional socioeconomic factors and investigate local Wi-Fi usage patterns through social analysis.
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... In line with Resistance to reclamation may signify the community's desire to uphold the continuity and longevity of their spatial experiences, which is crucial to their evolving identity and cultural legacy. Furthermore, as Harvey [46] suggested, space transcends its physical dimensions; it is a product of social processes. It encompasses economic, political, or cultural phenomena and serves as the stage where these social dynamics intersect and evolve. ...
The planned reclamation of Lae-Lae Island undoubtedly poses a threat to the marine ecosystem and the livelihoods of the surrounding fishing communities. This research aims to depict the dynamics of spatial contestation arising from this situation. To elucidate these dynamics, the researcher employs Henri Lefebvre's sociology of space and Edward Soja's geographical imagination. Utilizing a qualitative descriptive approach, data were gathered through observation, interviews, and documentation involving twenty-three informants. Findings reveal the dynamics of spatial contestation on Lae-Lae Island, including the emergence of spatial awareness as a socio-economic arena and the mobilization of resources from both the island community and external parties. Internal mobilization, led by community leaders, actively fosters solidarity among residents in rejecting the reclamation, while external resource mobilization involves actors from environmental organizations, media, and academia. The research concludes that community resistance stems from the direct implications of reclamation on residents' living space and livelihoods, particularly those of fishermen. The integration of Henri Lefebvre's sociological analysis and Edward Soja's geographical imagination provides a fresh perspective on social movement phenomena and spatial contestation.
... Although mining cities are not always located directly adjacent to mines, many serve as hubs for critical infrastructure related to processing (such as smelters or energy generation), mineral logistics (including ports, trains, and highways), or are situated near tailings (Arboleda 2020). As such, the daily lives of the mining workforce and those providing services in extractive regions reflect how the production of daily spaces link everyday actions to broader patterns of uneven development (Harvey 1993;Hall 2020). Against this background, it is necessary to unpack the sphere of social reproduction in extractive labor regimes beyond the household and study critically how LDC affects the places that reproduce the everyday life of the workers (those who do not commute particularly) and the communities that sustain value chains (Katz 2001;Baglioni 2022). ...
The modern mining industry's capital-labor dynamic centers on mobilizing workers from distant urban areas to extraction sites, operating under roster and long-distance commuting (LDC) system. Commonly explained as a cost-saving strategy or individual worker choice, this study challenges prevailing interpretations by embedding LDC within mining labor regimes to show the broader socio-ecological contexts that explain this phenomenon. Through a qualitative work, it unveils how LDC is grounded in the spheres of production, social reproduction, and ecology, in which the environmental conditions of the workplace and mining-related pollution in the spaces for social reproduction are critical.
... Furthermore, Low and Lawrence-Zúñiga (2003) provide a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of space and place, highlighting the diverse ways in which cultural practices and beliefs are spatially situated. Soja (1996) and Harvey (1993) offer critical insights into the socio-spatial dynamics of contemporary urban environments, which can be applied to understanding the spatial practices of coastal communities. Sack (1997) provides a theoretical framework for understanding the moral and ethical dimensions of human-environment interactions, which is particularly relevant to the study of sacred sites and community resilience. ...
In Southern India's coastal regions, fishermen face various challenges in their livelihoods, including the dangers of the sea. Shahul Hamid, a 16th-century Sufi master known as the "Protector of Navigation", holds significant spiritual influence in Nagore, Tamil Nadu, and beyond. Despite this influence, scholars have overlooked the impact of the saint's shrine on fishermen. This study uses the concept of sense of place to explore the connections between the Nagore fishermen community and the saint's shrine. Through qualitative methods like interviews and focus groups, the study uncovers complex relationships between fishermen and the shrine, revealing it as a source of security and connection to ancestral traditions amid modernization. The analysis highlights diverse relationships with the shrine, emphasizing the interplay between culture, spirituality, and livelihood in coastal communities.
... Here, the city starts to change -a new sense of place begins to emerge: informal practices become spatial, and a place-making practice. The threshold between the more formal city and informal settlement exists in various ways: visual, implied and as an imaginary 'territoriality of place' (Harvey 2012). The visual threshold here is also exemplified by a change in design language and material culture creating Mariamma Nagar as a distinct place. ...
Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built environment disciplines in what constitutes urban informality and its politics. It brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts, drawing on recent research by architects, planners, political scientists, geographers and urban theorists.
The book presents different case studies from multiple geographies, drawing attention to the need for studying urban informality in the Global North and Global South. The cases promote a cross-fertilization between disciplines, lenses, geographies and methodologies. They range from the creative place-making of street artists in Accra, to the morphological evolution of urban Tirana, urban agriculture in la Habana and social reproduction in Greece. Additional contributions highlight the cross-cutting themes of infrastructure, exchange and image.
Urban Informality and the Built Environment introduces built environment disciplines to its constitutive roles in producing urban informality. It also tests a range of new methodologies to the study of urban informality, demonstrating the possibilities for new insights when building on the relational understanding of urban informality.
... Of course, embodiment is deeply connected to place: places structure our bodily possibilities, and places in turn might be transformed through the ways in which our bodies inhabit them, through our routines and habits, through our everyday "place-ballets" (Seamon, 2015). Likewise, culture is always situated, and places always unfold within specific cultural and social structures (Harvey, 2012;Massey, 2013). Nevertheless, place is not reducible to body, just like it is not reducible to the social: "There is no doubt that the ordering of a particular place is not independent of social ordering. ...
In the current context of widespread environmental collapse, ecological grief—the sense of loss that arises from experiencing environmental destruction—has become a burgeoning topic of inquiry across psychology, geography, and anthropology. The central challenge in the study of ecological grief is that its theoretical foundations remain underdeveloped. Recent discussions in philosophy of emotions elucidate that a central element in this theoretical challenge is determining what the object of ecological grief is. In turn, our understanding of the object of ecological grief goes hand in hand with our understanding of the nature of ecological grief. This paper develops a phenomenological analysis of cross‐cultural subjective reports that identifies crucial themes in the experience of ecological grief. This phenomenological analysis reveals the object of ecological grief as the loss of the life possibilities that are sustained by dwelling. The resulting view is that ecological grief corresponds to a crisis in dwelling—a disturbance in the very way we inhabit our home environment.
... Place on the other hand, is a cultural and social construct; place develops through the meanings people ascribe to locations. As such, place matters to people (Harvey 1993). ...
Introducing the Special Collection on Coastal and Maritime Cultural Heritage, this article focuses on the cultural heritage of coastal regions and maritime cultures and presents a summary of threats and topics found in recent cultural heritage research, especially around the themes of governance, resilience, transformation, and power (including gender and marginalization). Cultural heritage (CH) is a super-concept: it connects a wide diversity of heritage types (tangible and intangible), and cuts across a variety of public policies. Yet coastal and maritime cultural heritage (CMCH) faces risks from conflicts, environmental hazards, and from a neglect arising from lack of understanding and consideration of its value. Additional risks from governmental Blue Growth policies and economic factors put CH at even greater risk. As cultural heritage is increasingly being tapped for its economic importance in development and tourism– and neglected in maritime policy– greater scholarly understandings and conceptualization of CMCH are needed. This special collection is one step in the direction towards further understandings, protections, and utilization of CH for coastal societies and culture. As economic valuations increase, however, we should not forget that cultural heritage in and of itself holds intrinsic value. Looking across Europe and the world, coastal peoples’ cultural heritage tells us a story of generations of linkages and bonds with coastal environments. Such CH imparts a sense of place and belonging to people, and connects people to one another, their pasts, and their futures. We hope this Special Collection provides a sense of the beauty of CMCH and inspires further exploration and research around this super-concept.
... We conceptually defined consumer localism, based on an interdisciplinary literature review (e.g., Donner, 1998;Featherstone, 1990;Harvey, 1993;Hines, 2000;Lash & Urry, 1994;Santos, 2006), as a consumer's engagement and interest in local activities, events, and products. Because no appropriate scale was available, we then developed a set of nine items reflecting the construct domain. ...
For international companies, the literature recommends directing segmentation efforts at customer characteristics rather than country characteristics. Consumers’ degree of cosmopolitan orientation has been suggested as a powerful segmentation base, as this characteristic is expected to drive consumers’ tastes and preferences. To advance research on this segmentation base, this article offers a conceptualization of the consumer cosmopolitanism construct by: (1) delineating its conceptual domain; (2) highlighting its key dimensions, namely open-mindedness, diversity appreciation, and consumption transcending borders; and (3) examining its links with theoretically relevant variables, specifically consumer ethnocentrism and global consumption orientation. Based on the aforementioned conceptualization, a consumer-research-specific and psychometrically sound measurement instrument—the C-COSMO scale—is subsequently developed and tested in a series of complementary studies. Finally, empirically based insights into the characteristics of cosmopolitan consumers are offered, by: (1) profiling them on consumption-relevant variables (innovativeness, risk aversion, susceptibility to normative influence, consumer ethnocentrism, and demographic characteristics); (2) examining the link between consumer cosmopolitanism and willingness to buy foreign products; and (3) developing an empirically based typology of cosmopolitan/local consumers using a cluster analysis approach. From a managerial perspective, findings suggest that the identification and subsequent targeting of cosmopolitan consumers may well represent an appropriate strategy for internationally active companies.
... Space, as rightfully stated by N. Thrift, "is not a common sense external background to human and social action" [Thrift, 2003], but a manifold concept that requires rigorous theoretical attention. Among numerous schools of thought, which problematize space from different perspectives [Massey, 2013;Lefebvre, 1991;Harvey, 1993;Hillier and Hanson, 1989], a very broad perspective could be distinguished as approaching space through the concept of place. Such a perspective is rooted in human geography [Tuan, 1979;Cresswell, 2014], and demarcates an abstract geometrical notion of space from a 'lived' human space as perceived, experienced, and endowed with meanings, defining the latter as 'a place' in the most general sense [Cresswell, 2004]. ...
The contribution reflects on the potential of photography as a research method to investigate the spatial experience and perception of urban space in prefabricated mass housing estates. It does so by drawing upon the discourse on space and place, which spans geography, urban planning, social sciences, urban studies, and architecture. The notion of place allows capturing how we establish our relations, create attachments, and conceive and project meanings onto space. Often the place also serves as a remedy against dreadful monotonous urban conditions, of which prefabricated mass housing is often accused. Mass housing appears then as an ambiguous ground in search of a place. On the one hand, it is portrayed as a placeless anonymous site lacking in identity and human scale. On the other hand, no less often it stands for sites of nostalgia, memories, symbolic meanings and heritage of failed modernist promise, making them places with very strong character. No less ambiguous is the nature of space in housing estates, as from being conceived as separated and programmed under functional imperatives, it often comes to life as a non-discrete void. Photography opens up important ways to capture such ambiguities of space and place in mass housing estates, as it shares two fundamental aspects with spatial experience therein. The act of framing photographic space could approximate the process by which we conceive of certain spaces as places while disregarding the rest, how we differentiate space when it has no affordances, distinct features or clear physical borders to do so. Further, photography could capture atmospheres and convey a sense of being in, or portraying places in such a way as to open an insight into the perceived dimension of it. The reflection will be grounded on a case study of Marzahn housing estate (Berlin), as a side project accompanying PhD project focused on space and place in housing estates.
... Meanings of place and place-identities have always been contested sites of the (re-)production of narratives of who/what belongs and who/ what does not (Creswell 1996). Consequently, critical geographers have long warned of the local's ability to bring about both progressive and reactionary politics, accordingly criticising essentialist and romanticised attachment to local places (Massey 1993;Harvey 1993;Paasi 2003;Amin 2004). ...
This paper discusses the promotion of localism as an environmental strategy by actors on the French far right. Far-right localism constitutes an example of mutating far-right ecological discourses on the denialism-ecofascism spectrum that further promotes far-right ideology under a ‘green’ banner. In this commentary I use empirical examples from the far right in France to show how this localism, which advocates a nativist rootedness in an exclusionary local, is upheld as a prerequisite for effective environmentalism. Such a strategy mobilises a reactionary conceptualisation of place that defends an exclusionary attachment to the local environment. Far-right localism feeds and revolves around an identitarian, naturalist and organicist conception of ecology typical of far-right ecologies, as well as the wish to supplant the left/right divide with a global/local one. This paper brings into conversation the fields of human geography and the political ecologies of the far right to contribute to a better understanding of constructed meanings of place by far-right actors in the context of climate change and ecological degradation. It furthermore encourages scholars across fields to keep investigating and disentangling complex affinities between ideologies of nature, identity (re-)production, belonging and resistance in conceptualisations and meanings of place.
... A par da paisagem, os lugares são produzidos e reproduzidos, revelando que na interação com a paisagem, o olhar do indivíduo não só os percepciona como os fabrica (Silva, 1999). Ou seja, os lugares são construídos por nós e, por isso, nunca são estáticos, pois resultam da mediação de práticas espaciais, representações e discursos (Harvey, 1993). Nesta perspectiva, o conceito de lugar implica que o entendamos não apenas como um conjunto de aspectos visuais na paisagem, mas também como um produto humano em constante construção. ...
O objetivo deste trabalho é realizar uma análise temática e comparativa, à luz dos conceitos de paisagem, espaço, lugar e memória, de seis textos de Vitorino Nemésio e de Cecília Meireles nos quais se representam as ilhas atlânticas do arquipélago dos Açores. Nestes textos, a paisagem se revela como manifestação da topografia ontológica de cada autor e resulta num processo subjetivo de construção e ressignificação dos lugares das ilhas. Em comum, os textos destes autores partilham os temas da simplicidade da vida dos ilhéus, do isolamento e da pobreza. Se estes traços os aproximam, outros há que os afastam. Se em Nemésio, as ilhas são transfiguradas em paisagem turística e espaço de emigração, espelhando a substância e os constrangimentos da açorianiedade, em Cecília, a ilha surge como um lugar na fronteira entre o real e o imaginário, construído pela fantasia da poeta, a partir da sua geografia emocional e das memórias de infância. Se em Nemésio, os textos manifestam imagens-reservatórios de memória individual e coletiva, em Cecília, o trabalho da memória facilita uma fuga ao real e uma viagem a uma realização do mito do paraíso perdido: a Ilha do Nanja.
... Ordinary whiteness is especially solidified in presumably unremarkable spaces in which everyday routines unfold. Rather than exclusively focusing on the built environment, we envision space as a landscape of racial meaning and a moral topography; space becomes a means through which racial relations constitute themselves in a concrete form through a logic of uneven capital investment (Harvey 1993). ...
... This restriction has specific social and political significance. As Harvey (1994) said, 'place' has rich metaphorical meanings; space and place are the structure of discourse. The discourse constructs people's experiences, memory, desire, and identity (Relph 2008). ...
As a public space and building, the footbridge is not just a physical concrete building but also carries people’s life experiences and beliefs. In Hong Kong, however, footbridges are a joint product of the government and property developers to control people and drive consumption. Taking the footbridge as an example, this article explores the relationship between public space and the power of discourse. The article first discusses how the government and property developers manipulate footbridges as a social control tool. This article draws on case studies of the use of public space during and after Hong Kong’s social movements in 2019 to discuss how people tried to regain their power of discourse in urban space, and how the government and the bourgeoisie suppressed such attempts. This paper argues that footbridges serve as marginal spaces, and demonstrate power and control by providing a space for people to discuss public affairs and be used to demonstrate power and control, especially in social movements. The footbridges traditionally used are challenged in a social event at the same time, brought under the gaze of planning and management from authorities, on the meaning of public space, the footbridges are narrowed or even prohibited in Hong Kong.
The reclaim of the term queer has operated since the 90s as a real cultural revolution, starting from the sphere of activism up to contaminating different areas of academic research with its critical and revolutionary approach. Queer thought and marginalized identities have historically been linked to the city and its spaces. Therefore, the topic of queer space has been treated especially by geographers, urbanists, and sociologists, who have been open to contamination with Queer Studies for several decades. However, the intersection between the latter and the world of design remains to be explored, particularly in the urban spatial dimension. This chapter illustrates an overview of the various meanings of queer and its links with the spatial urban dimensions and offers some examples between spontaneous autonomous actions and design projects that queer public space, interrogating the role of queer adopted as an epistemological lens to transform design for public urban spaces.
Sexuality, Consent and Relationships in Swedish Arts Education. The aim of this study is to examine how the knowledge area of sexuality, consent and relationships could come into being in the context of Swedish Arts education. More specifically, it explores how phenomena such as identity, sexuality, and gender are material—discursively produced during 15–16-year-old students’ work with photographic portraits in Arts education in Grade 9. Using Karen Barad’s concept of space-time-matter in the analysis shows how subject-didactic opportunities and challenges reformulate the ideas about what sexuality education can be. Results also show how the notions of sexuality, consent and relationships are transformed in the open-ended process of working with Arts education as a material-discursive entanglement.
This chapter revisits issues of locational identity and spatial politics touched upon in Chapter 5, and expands its purview to consider aspects of translocality and deterritorialisation in contemporary art practice. It explores diverse discourses on geopolitics, cosmopolitanism, diasporas, frontiers and refugeeism, viewed through the prism of a wide range of art and curatorial practices drawn from many regions of the world. Decolonial methodologies are also revisited, with works and projects by First Nations artists prominent in responses to the imposition of colonial geographies and mappings.
This chapter introduces the main themes of the book, framed as an exploration of human memory practice in the visual arts, with a focus on public art and memorialisation. These enquiries are contextualised within broader framework of writing and philosophical thought on the representation of trauma, with particular reference to the Atlantic Slave trade of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and the European Holocaust of 1941–1945, alongside other instances of catastrophic human cruelty. Among diverse artistic and institutional responses to such traumas, aspects of artistic activism are also introduced. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the book’s structure and chapter thematics.
This chapter introduces key historiographic and philosophical perspectives on the contemporary ‘Postcolony’—a recurrent theme within this book. The first section looks at art historical narratives and how these have been framed by colonial powers, with a focus on the lasting influence of nineteenth and twentieth century European Modernism. Following this, the lens is expanded to include perspectives on cultural and locational identity, and decolonial challenges to Western aesthetic and epistemic regimes, explored through the work of diverse writers, philosophers and historians. The chapter concludes with a brief account of some influential discourses on spatial politics and Australia’s unique socio-topological positioning.
Human trafficking awareness and mitigation is approached intellectually from all angles and disciplines: social work, human rights, international law, criminal justice, anthropology, psychology, healthcare providers, faith-based institutions, production studios, non-governmental organizations, and journalists. It is a key social justice and human rights issue of our times. Governments, international agencies, academics, and non-governmental agencies are beginning to evaluate and analyze the upsurge in human trafficking for what it is: a severe global and public health crisis. No matter the discipline, survivor-centered approaches are essential for efficacious collaborative outcomes. In this chapter, the authors illuminate issues of public and global health as it pertains to human sex trafficking in India and the United States through a collective approach between survivor, filmmaker, and anthropologist. The chapter begins with a comparative analysis of older and newer trends in slavery, shifting to a focus on human sex trafficking and its relationship to human rights, global and public health, and advocacy. It explores how survivor-centered narratives can frame the global health issue from an emic and insider’s perspective.
21. yüzyılda kentler birçok dönüşüm ve değişimin yaşandığı dönemde varlıklarını sürdürmek istemekte ve bu amaçla farklılıklarını ortaya çıkarabilmek için çaba harcamaktadırlar. Kentlerde var olan farklılıklar hem “kent imajı” bakımından hem de “kentsel yetenek” açısından önem arz etmektedir. Kentlerin, küreselleşen ortamda diğer kentlerden öne çıkabilmesi ve farklılıkların yaratılabilmesi için kentlerde bireyleri motive edecek ortamlar oluşturulması söz konusu olmaktadır. Bundan dolayı kentler, küresel ortamda rekabet güçlerini arttırabilmek için farklı ve kuvvetli yanlarını ortaya koyarak kendilerine değer katacak bir imaj oluşturma çabası içindeki çalışmalara yönelmeye başlamıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı da küresel rekabet içerisinde Yeniçarahori’nin farklılıkları ve özgün nitelikleriyle kentsel yeteneğinin kent imajına yaptığı etkinin araştırılması yapılmıştır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Kent İmajı, Kentsel Yetenek, Girişimcilik, Kent, Yeniçarahori.
Understanding how people choose routes in urban environments is essential for effective urban planning. While conventional transportation studies focus on utilitarian decision-making, this research investigates the complex interplay between human-environment interactions and emotional attachments to places, which influence transportation choices. Specifically, we examine the impact of sense of place in pedestrian route choice within a densely populated urban university community. Unlike typical urban settings characterized by clear roads and landmarks, university environments often feature intricate layouts with diffuse pathways, shared spaces, and a lack of clear spatial hierarchies. This complexity challenges conventional spatial knowledge acquisition methods. Individuals navigating such environments tend to rely on socio-sensory wayfinding strategies, developing emotional connections to specific places and routes over time. Consequently, route choices in these contexts may not always be deliberate but rather subconscious and nuanced. Our study focuses on elucidating the impact of the sense of place—a composite of conscious and subconscious perceptions, emotions, and attachments to a location—on daily route decisions. Through structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis, we demonstrate that the sense of place significantly influences route choices within community building complexes, surpassing utilitarian considerations as a primary explanatory factor. These findings underscore the importance of emotional and psychological factors in shaping urban route decisions, offering valuable insights for urban planning and management strategies.
As representative of the water-energy-food nexus, fossil fuel development and industrial agriculture are rural industries that continue to expand and increasingly occur in the same areas. Being a top agricultural export county and the fossil fuel capital of California while ranking among the worst in the US for industrial pollution, Kern County is a poster child of rural nexus development and, thus, an essential place for initiating sustainability transitions. Such transitions rely on policy support and the adoption of methods by individuals and communities who may disagree with such changes. While sense of place and impact perceptions are recognized as playing critical roles in sustainability management, they have yet to be utilized in nexus research. A survey (N = 256) of the perceived impacts of nexus industries with place meaning and place attachment as possible drivers for perceptions was conducted in nexus industry pollution exposure risk zones. Factor analysis and bivariate correlations showed that place meaning and place attachment are drivers for perceptions while also being drivers for concern for changes in nexus industries. While perceptions of impacts indicated contested place meanings, participants strongly perceive the economy and environment as being in decline. To build support for sustainability policy, directing funds from Kern County’s renewable energy industry to local sectors of society, implementation of regenerative agriculture, cooperative management, and nurturing place meaning as aligned with nature’s restorative quality are important paths forward. These nexus management foci could strengthen place attachment, build trust in government, and repair environmental alienation.
Il contributo si propone di esaminare l'approccio del geografo David Seamon in relazione a una delle sue opere più conosciute e influenti. Collocate le teorie e la metodologia di Seamon nel quadro della geografia umanistica coeva e in quello del pensiero fenomenologico, il contributo analizza alcuni studi direttamente legati alle intuizioni di Seamon e ne dimostra, infine, tanto il valore attuale quanto i potenziali impieghi per lo sviluppo di nuove analisi geografiche dei luoghi.
Craft beer, as both an industry and culture, has worked to foster and reimagine new senses of place and belonging (or communitas), by carefully leveraging local identities, and culture, and place. Within this context, this chapter explores the emergence, evolution, and expansion of a local group—located in a craft beer desert—that has turned a shared passion for craft beer into a mission-driven, community-based organization that supports post-secondary education vis-à-vis an annual fundraiser, and that coordinates and hosts craft beer-related programs at venues across the county and city. The chapter demonstrates how a sense of belonging facilitated by a shared affinity for craft beer can be leveraged to support place-based philanthropy.
Space, beyond standard urban/rural divisions, plays a leading role in the diffusion of educational access. In this paper, using geo-localisation and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) we analyse spatial inequality in educational access (primary, lower secondary and upper secondary levels) for 13,000 communities from 22 countries in the Eastern and Western African regions. We find that: (i) space matters for educational access after accounting for communities' contextual backgrounds in spatial econometric models, (ii) the extent of spatial inequality in educational access is higher in countries with lower levels of women's empowerment, and (iii) spatial educational inequality operate more powerfully in marginalised communities. Educational policies aimed at boosting educational access should consider space-based interventions, looking beyond the traditional rural-urban or regional boundaries.
Protests differ and so do protest outcomes. This is also the case in food delivery gig work, which is characterised by frequent labour unrest. Various cross-country analyses have pointed to the importance of the national context for the strategies and outcomes of courier protests. However, as the article shows, the protests already differ at the level of different cities. To analyse this, the study argues that the heterogeneity of protests in platform-mediated courier work is due to the spatially distinct logic of the respective cities. The research is based on two case studies of food delivery platforms in Germany, which were investigated with a mixed methods research design consisting of interviews, multi-sited ethnography and a survey. The findings show that the intrinsic logic of the two centres of courier protests studied (Cologne and Berlin) played a central role in the composition of the protesting groups, their strategies and subsequently the outcomes. However, it turns out that intrinsic logics are not homogeneous and in fact may exist in various forms, which can be complementary or in conflict with each other and are supported and realised by different social groups. In addition, the size of the cities also proves to be decisive for the dynamics of the protests.
This chapter explores the socio-spatial consequences of the dialectic of art and economy in postindustrial cities. The relationship between cities and the cultural economy is viewed through conflicts around cultural regeneration and the importance of urban branding for establishing a sense of place within the cultural economy. The chapter then explores the relationship between art and artists, identity, and place-making on urban landscapes, arguing that artists position within, and interaction with, especially postindustrial cities is highly ambivalent, and reflects the contradictions of the dialectical relationship between art and economy. This is particularly manifest in relation to the use of culture in branding and place-making, and in gentrification.
Being Cultural is an ambitious collection of original readings which introduces students to key theory and key issues within cultural studies and popular culture. Bringing together established writers such as Andy Bennett, Douglas Kellner, Chris Rojek, Barry Smart and John Storey with academics researching cultural texts in new and innovative ways, the book challenges our common-sense notions of ‘culture’, placing debates centrally within the power dynamics and dominant meaning-making of capitalist society. In understanding the production and consumption of such texts, the book outlines theoretical discussion from the Frankfurt School, British Cultural Studies, Semiotics, Subcultural theory, and Postmodernism, as well as investigating special topics such as digital media, sport, advertising, social networking sites, celebrity, video games, the body, cinema, reality TV, and issues of gender and ethnicity. With a total of twenty-five chapters presented in a user-friendly style — including chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading from the authors — this is an essential text for any student new to the subject.
In November 2012, the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies was convened in Dire Dawa, a cosmopolitan city in the eastern lowlands of Ethiopia. This event gathered more than 300 international scholars from all disciplines of the humanities and social social sciences. Under the general theme of ‘movement’ these two volumes gather a collection of 70 papers that reflect recent trends in the field of Ethiopian studies. From local studies to regional and international perspectives, these studies question long term historical processes and current social and economic transformations. A number of contributions explore and give access to fresh sources of knowledge from unpublished or rediscovered texts and documents, from recordings of oral information, or from ethnographic observation. They also review literature, challenge conventional ideas and propose critical investigations on past and present issues, such as interethnic relations, women’s role, development policies and their impact.
Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics (that which orientate acts of worlding, of staging).
With sections on installation art and gardening as well as marketing and placemaking, this book is an argument for what scenography does: how assemblages of scenographic traits orientate, situate, and shape staged events. Established stage orthodoxies are revisited - including the symbiosis of stage and scene and the aesthetic ideology of 'the scenic' - to propose how scenographics are formative to all staged events. Consequently, one of the conclusions of this book is that there is no theatre practice without scenography, no stages without scenographics.
Beyond Scenography offers a manifesto for a renewed theory of scenographic practice for the student and professional theatrical designer.
Applied geography represents the dialectic relationship between theory and application (Pacione 1999 Pacione, M. (1999). Applied geography: in pursuit of useful knowledge.Applied Geography,19(1), 1–12. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622898000319[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], 2004 Pacione, M. (2004). The principles and practice of applied geography. In Applied Geography (pp. 23–45). Springer, Dordrecht. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-2442-9_3[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). A well-informed rigorous pedagogy must represent this dialectical relationship (Pacione 1999 Pacione, M. (1999). Applied geography: in pursuit of useful knowledge.Applied Geography,19(1), 1–12. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622898000319[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). How then can the relationship between the theoretical and the applied be challenged within the “spaces” of the university? I provide a critical discussion of the use of a blended learning pedagogy (Davis & Fill 2007 Davis, H. C., & Fill, K. (2007). Embedding blended learning in a university's teaching culture: Experiences and reflections. British Journal of Educational Technology,38(5), 817–828. https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00756.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) in challenging that there is a separation of theoretical and applied geography. A blended learning pedagogy allows for the inclusion of emerging media and learning technologies as tools in developing a new “space” for teaching and learning, a “space” which is focused on active learning. The walls of the university lecture room become porous, as students begin to make critical connections between theory and application. I unpack the pedagogical justification for a shift to a blended learning approach. I support this justification with evidence from curriculum design in a first-year geography course, and the student experience of implementation of this blended learning approach. I assess student engagement with theory through the integration of real-world case studies into a blended delivery approach. I evaluate their critical engagement by applying a mixed-method approach to a survey and follow-up focus group.
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