Experiencing urban spaces and social meanings through social Media:Unravelling the relationships between Instagram city-related use, Sense of Place, and Sense of Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 101691
Author(s):  
Flora Gatti ◽  
Fortuna Procentese
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Meanings

Cultura Panamericana

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Macías
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Culture Industries ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Pan American

I am writing this analytical appreciation of cultura panamericana, or pan-American culture, to propose a wider recognition of how its historical linkages and contemporary manifestations confront colonialism, honor indigenous roots, and reflect multiple, mixed-race identities. Although often mediated by transnational pop-culture industries, expressive cultural forms such as art and music articulate resonant themes that connect US Latinos and Latinas to Latin Americans, pointing the way toward a hemispheric imaginary. In US murals, for example, whether in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen or the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park, pan-American expressive culture offers alternative representations by embracing indigeneity, and it creates a sense of place by tropicalizing urban spaces.

scholarly journals What field education experiences do social services students regard as meaningful?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niina Manninen ◽  
Elina Kuusisto ◽  
Kirsi Tirri
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Field Education ◽  
Social Advocacy ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Life Goal ◽  
Theoretical Structure ◽  
Social Meanings

The purpose of this study was to investigate the kinds of field education experiences that social services students (N = 113) regard as meaningful. The theoretical structure was based on a ”purpose of life” framework (Damon, Menon & Bronk 2003). Pursuing a helping profession is identified as a life purpose whenit is a personally meaningful long-term life goal that is intentionally realized by benefiting others. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, the study relates the students’ meaningful field education experiences to a sense of community, learning professional competencies, and learning related to the self. Students’ confidence in helping and in social advocacy increased after their field education, and they were less concerned with searching for purpose. Helping seems to be an important life goal for the students but explicitly reflecting its pro-social meanings does not seem apparent.

Reading through London: Urban space and ontology in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bandosz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Realism ◽  
Ontological Dimension ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Secret Agent

Drawing from urban and ontological perspectives on Joseph Conrad’s prose and schizoanalysis, this article examines the entanglement of urban spaces and unstable subjectivities in The Secret Agent. Conrad’s psychological realism and impressionistic depiction of London generate a sense of place, topophilia, which imbues the novel with an extratextual dimension that oscillates between textuality and spatiality. The novel foregrounds characters in the cityscape as they permeate setting and narrative with their subjectivities and vice versa; the unstable subjectivities and spaces generate affective resonances that fracture the narrative and implicate the reader. An accompanying narratological analysis demonstrates how Conrad’s narrative techniques facilitate the reader’s interpolation into the liminal, ontological dimension of text and place.

scholarly journals Running Rotterdam: on how locals’ participation in running events fosters their sense of place

GeoJournal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryanne Vink ◽  
Krisztina Varró
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Dutch City ◽  
Multiple Character

AbstractBuilding on the insights of scholarship highlighting specific aspects of the forming of place meanings and experiences during running (events), this paper aims at applying a more holistic perspective on how meanings attached to and experiences of place by local runners are shaped through both individual and collective sense-making. Conceptually, the paper combines (post-)phenomenological and symbolic interactionist approaches. Empirically, the paper focuses on the Dutch city of Rotterdam and draws on extensive fieldwork conducted at the 2018 edition of the NN Marathon Rotterdam, and two smaller scale, non-commercially oriented running events organized by a local running club in 2017. Based on this qualitative research, the paper demonstrates that individual local runners’ understandings and embodied experience of the physical and social environment is always situated in, and interwoven with, broader social meanings and instances of shared embodiment. At the same time, the paper reflects on the methodological challenges faced by research on running (events) and calls for a more explicit acknowledgement of the multiple character of the running world(s) studied, and of the trade-offs between the different research techniques applied.

Sonic Placemaking: Three approaches and ten attributes for the creation of enduring urban sound art installations

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Lacey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
The Status ◽  
Spirit Of Place ◽  
International Visitors

This article investigates the approaches and attributes of publicly situated sound installations which have achieved the status of permanency, and have attracted ongoing local, and even international, visitors. The article draws on international fieldwork in 2015 that documented several enduring sound installations in the United States, UK and Europe. Through an inductive process including listening exercises, sound recordings, observations and interviews, the analysis identifies three approaches to creating sound installations and ten attributes of operative sound installations. It is argued that by encouraging public listening, the discussed sound installations successfully establish a sensory connection between people and their environments. By extension, it is argued that this emergent sense of place is commensurate with the installations’ capacity to augment a pre-existing ‘spirit of place’. These findings culminate in a sonic placemaking tool for situating sound art installations in urban spaces. It is suggested that urban planners and designers can apply the presented sonic placemaking tool to augment a site’s spirit of place, thereby affecting new experiences in everyday urban life.

Pale reflections

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Tarlow
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Phenomenological Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
The Rich

Harris and Sørensen's paper is a welcome attempt to address the question of ‘finding’ and interpreting emotion in the deep past. Their contribution to this emerging area of debate is particularly valuable in that it treats upon a prehistoric context, and is thus unaided by the rich contextual information provided by historical sources; and it moves the debate away from the mortuary context towards other areas of lived experience – here the processes of constructing, inhabiting, engaging with and ultimately destroying an architecturally defined space. These are more ambitious and less obvious contexts for constructing emotional pasts. Where the authors are most successful is in the identification of cultural loci where emotions are developed and are involved in the construction of experience – such as in the production and reproduction of ‘sense of community’. Less convincing, for me, were the places where they follow the (mainly British prehistoric) ‘phenomenological’ tradition. My own view is that shared and expressed emotional values are more amenable to archaeological identification and analysis than personal emotional experience, and I shall try to explain why. I think by separating the social meanings of emotion from the physical experience of emotion the authors of this article might be able to pursue more fruitful kinds of enquiry.

Sense of Community and Community Participation among Hispanic Adults

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson A. Portillo-Pena ◽  
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar ◽  
Lucia Orellana-Demacela
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Hispanic Adults
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