Chapter 7. The politics of place-making and belonging through language choice within center-periphery dynamics in Limburg, The Netherlands

2018 ◽  
pp. 125-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Thissen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
Center Periphery

scholarly journals 16.D. Workshop: The Place Standard Tool around the world – experience on impact, equity aspects and transferability

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Qualitative Response ◽  
Health And Place ◽  
Standard Tool ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Inclusive Approach

Abstract The relationships that exist between the fundamental drivers of our physical, social and economic environments and the immediate or eventual impacts these environments or “places” have on population health and inequalities are well documented. Successfully empowering communities to positively influence and help shape the decisions that impact on current and future living environments is a fundamental driver of health and well-being. The Place Standard Tool is a flexible product that translates complex public health and place making theory into a simple tool that supports communities, organisations and businesses to work together and identify both the assets of a place and areas deemed priority for improvement albeit within places that are well-established, undergoing change, or still being planned. The tool consists of 14 easy to understand questions or dimensions which cover both the physical and social elements of a place. On completion the tool is designed to provide both a quantitative (a score of 1-7 for each theme) and qualitative response through free text. The quantitative scores are displayed on a compass diagram and allow at a glance an immediate understanding of what dimensions of place work well (a score of 7 is the highest) and what areas require improving (a score of 1 is the lowest). Critical to establishing this full picture is ensuring that all ages and populations successfully contribute to the process. International developments continue to proceed at pace. The European Network for WHO Healthy Cities takes interest in spreading the tool to its members, and adaptations of the tool are already available in 14 European countries. These countries include the Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Greece, Germany and Spain. This workshop aims to bring together current international experience and developments with the tool, and to reflect on transferability, replicability, possible health impacts and equity aspects in terms of participation and data analysis. Another aim is promote availability of the tool more widely and to allow increased awareness and application to assist with the creation of healthy places. The objectives of the workshop are: To outline the connection between place, health and health inequalitiesTo introduce and explain how, where and when to use the Place Standard Tool to support the design of healthy and equitable placesTo enable participants through a variety of case studies explore whether the Place Standard is a suitable tool to use in their particular context which might be at a national, city and or neighbourhood delivery level. This will be achieved through an introduction to the tool and case studies from the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. Time will be provided at the end for discussion. Key messages Knowledge and awareness of a free and practical product to engage with partners, communities and politicians in taking forward an evidence based, and inclusive approach to healthy place design. An opportunity to contribute to and learn from a growing community of experience and expertise in healthy place making.

scholarly journals Cultural activism and the politics of place-making

City ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 606-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Buser ◽  
Carlo Bonura ◽  
Maria Fannin ◽  
Kate Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Place Making ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Politics Of Place

Relational place-making: the networked politics of place

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Pierce ◽  
Deborah G Martin ◽  
James T Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Place Making ◽  
Politics Of Place

scholarly journals Multilingualism in Enlightenment Europe

Slovene ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 543-553
Author(s):  
Gleb Pilipenko
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
English Language ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Alphabetical Index ◽  
The Russian Empire

[Rev. of: Rjéoutski V., Frijhoff W., eds., Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance, Amsterdam, 2018, 233 pp.] The book under review is an English-language collective monograph called “Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance”, written by authors from the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Estonia, and Croatia (edited by Vladislav Rjéoutski and Willem Frijhoff). The subject of the monograph is the language choice in the European countries of the 18th century. This is the sixth book in the Languages and Cultures in History series, and it includes an introduction, eight articles by the international team of authors, and an alphabetical index of names and places mentioned. The Enlightenment was marked in Europe by the gradual abandonment of Latin in education and public administration and its replacement by vernaculars. At the same time, there are peculiarities in every country, particularly in the Russian Empire and Croatia. Archival materials (private letters, memoirs, official questionnaires, statistics) make this book extremely valuable. The authors analyse the linguistic situation in France, the Netherlands, Central Germany, the Estonian Governorate, Croatia, the Hungarian Kingdom, and the Russian Empire. Language choice is discussed at the micro-level (e.g. within one family) as well as at the macro-level (e.g., in education, public administration, among the nobility or clergy). The book will be of great interest to historians, linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, as well as to specialists in international relations.

scholarly journals Elegies and Genealogies of Place: Spatial Belonging in the Italian/American Culture and Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Little Italy

This article examines the poetics and politics of place in Italian/American culture and in Tina De Rosa’s novel Paper Fish (1980), particularly its portrayal of ‘elegies and genealogies of place’, an appropriate framework through which to read the importance of spatial belonging. It investigates the way in which cultural identity is mostly built on both imagined communities and imagined places, as is common in migrant and diasporic cultures, through the evocation or creation of ancestors and the homeland. In addition, the Italian/American community leaves the characteristic Little Italy enclaves or undergoes displacement due to urban renewal projects and the move to the suburbs in the mid-twentieth century, which is sometimes compared to a second migration or diaspora. As a consequence, former urban enclaves come to assume a centrality as lostsanctuaries, which is captured in the trope of the Old Neighbourhood. The article contributes to existing contemporary research on the binomial placeidentity by tracing how key events of US urban history impacted on Italian/American culture. Furthermore, the goal is to offer new critical readings of Paper Fish through the focus on place-making.

scholarly journals Driven to Distraction: Turkish Diaspora Football Supporters, New Media and the Politics of Place-Making

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mcmanus
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
New Form ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how new media forms linked to the internet are feeding into the generation of community. It looks specifically at the place-making practices of a transnational group of football fans, European supporters of the Turkish club team Beşiktaş.I trace the mediations of two common football fan practices: the singing of chants and the display of banners. Adopting a multi-sited ethnographic approach, I track their circulation. While remaining part of the stadium experience, the chant and the banner have a prolonged life as digital objects. Fans combine them with new media practices, using them to expanding the array of places and means by which they can be Beşiktaş fans. The politics of building a transnational fan community is increasingly predicated on mediating between ‘virtual’ and ‘actual’ spaces. Success is measured through an individual's ability to intervene successfully on both the terrace and the Facebook page. This in turn requires a new form of interaction amongst fans, one based around a sense of distracted tactility. I conclude by suggesting the need to refigure the benchmarks by which we judge the affective relationships of fans. The sociology of sport can be refreshed through paying closer attention to the production of space, the materiality of internet media, and the sensate dimensions of the fan experience.

scholarly journals The impact of preschool attendance on children's bidialectism in The Netherlands: Why toddlers may stop speaking a regional language (Limburgish) at home

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-355
Author(s):  
Leonie Cornips
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Language Choice ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Preschool Attendance ◽  
Preschool Language ◽  
Regional Language ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

AbstractThis article addresses the question as to why toddlers in The Netherlands may stop speaking their regional language—Limburgish—as their home language after entering preschool, even when both parents speak Limburgish at home. The question is addressed through the concept of the total linguistic fact (Silverstein 1985): language ideology, language choice, and language practices mutually shape and inform each other. Language ideologies in wider society impact educational practices in preschool. Hierarchical teacher-child and influential peer interactions show the negative effects of speaking Limburgish. Preschool language socialization practices have a profound effect on language choice and shift by toddlers at home who are still in the midst of their linguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, and social development of both Limburgish and Dutch as first languages. (Regional language, language ideology, preschool)

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