Marking walls and borders

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 975-994
Author(s):  
Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Multiple Agents ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Creative City ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconceptualize space as a field of struggles between multiple agents. Design/methodology/approach The author draws from field theory and uses visual methods to explain how graffiti shapes how neighborhoods are branded and aligned with creative city redevelopment plans. Findings By exploring space/place as field, the author moves beyond the structure/culture dichotomy to explain both place making and displacement. Research limitations/implications The findings suggest gentrification is not an abstract force, but rather the outcome of struggles to define place and attract new, consuming populations to the neighborhood. Originality/value Sociologists share a long and rich tradition of associating opportunity with space that traces back to W.E.B. DuBois’ research on the seventh ward in The Philadelphia Negro (1899). More recently, sociologists have reified space and have attempted to distinguish place as an outcome of human experience. How space and place is reproduced remains unclear. This paper contributes toward the understanding of space, place-making and displacement.

Ferries as travelling landscapes: tourism and watery mobilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-334
Author(s):  
Eva McGrath ◽  
Nichola Harmer ◽  
Richard Yarwood
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
South West ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
South West England

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of small river ferries as an under-researched but novel mode of travel which enhances and brings new dimensions to tourist experiences of travelling landscapes. Design/methodology/approach The study used a mixed methods approach including participant observation, a survey and interviews with ferry users and staff at one river crossing in South West England. Findings The ferry attracts tourists as a different and practical mode of transport. The river crossing provides an experience of being on water, and the material structure of the ferry significantly shapes on-board interactions whilst providing new perspectives of place. Research limitations/implications This article draws on data collected for a study of ferry crossings conducted at three sites in Devon and Cornwall, England, using multiple methods. The material presented in this article focuses on one site and draws on four interviews, twelve reflection cards and observations. Social implications The research highlighted the extent to which the ferry is dependent on tourist use. At the same time, it reveals the extent to which the crossing enriches the tourist experience and celebrates a ferry’s contribution to local place-making. Originality/value The majority of research on ferry crossings focuses on commuter experiences, marine crossings and larger passenger vessels. This article makes an original contribution to literature on ferries, as it offers a perspective on tourist experiences of river ferry crossings, reveals how the ferry structure influences interrelations on-board and provides distinctive insights into place through a focus on movement across water.

scholarly journals Race and place

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 913-922
Author(s):  
Karim Murji ◽  
Giovanni Picker
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
Race And Place

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on race and place. Design/methodology/approach The approach used by the authors is to combine an overview of sociological debates on place within a framework that makes the case for a relational approach to race, space and place. Findings The overview provides an account of place in sociology, of the relationality of race and place, and the making of race and place in sociological work. Originality/value The Introduction sets the papers in context, providing a short account of each of them; it also aims to present an argument for attention to race and place in sociology in a setting characterized by racism and reaction.

Creative economy assessment: a case study of Kish Island

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 1940-1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elham Lafzi Ghazi ◽  
Miguel Goede
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Creative City

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the case of Kish, which is a small island off the coast of Iran, using the creative indicators of a creative economy. Design/methodology/approach Based on the extant literature, a set of performance measures and factors are identified for the creative economy. This set is mainly based on Florida’s theory on the creative class. The case of Kish Island is evaluated based on these indicators, and after analysis, conclusions are drawn. Findings Kish Island, with its numerous tourist attractions, shows remarkable creative industries that highlight the presence of the creative class and the development of a creative economy in this area. Originality/value The paper illustrates the model of a creative economy assessment for the small Kish Island and finally provides a good understanding of the concept of the creative economy as a key element of the creative city.

Creative industries: a case study of Isfahan, Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-287
Author(s):  
Elham Lafzi Ghazi ◽  
Miguel Goede
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Needed Information ◽  
Gross Value Added

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute critically to understanding the structure of creative industries in Isfahan.Design/methodology/approachThe authors first gather needed information about the case study and then analyze the data according to three measures of gross value added, employment and the dynamics of business for each sector of creative industries.FindingsResults indicate that creative industries are medium-sized domestic enterprises which are comparatively weak in productivity in some sectors.Originality/valueThis paper illustrates the model of creative industries assessment for Isfahan city and, finally, provides a good understanding of the concept of the creative industries as a key element of the creative city.

Beating the cyberbullies

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Bullying – it has been an unfortunate piece of the workplace jigsaw ever since workplaces began to exist centuries ago. While acts of bullying may have lessened in violence since medieval times – not so many beheadings these days; fewer drownings of recalcitrant employees – they have developed in their complexity. Partly this is down to advances in human experience, but a lot of this is down to how communications have evolved. Perhaps at a much greater pace than the humans that work them. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Ever the twain shall meet

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Baskin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business People ◽  
East And West ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeTo explore how selected principles of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory can be synthesized into a model for human and organizational behavior that is more accurate and appropriate to global markets than either traditional eastern or western models.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a model of human and organizational behavior based on similarities between elements of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory.FindingsSeveral of the respective principles of Chinese philosophy and complexity theory – the Chinese transformational cycle and complexity's cycle of attractors, for instance – are strikingly similar, suggesting that their commonalities are universals of human experience resting underneath their surface differences. By playing those similar principles off against each other, one can develop a model of human and organizational behavior that transcends both east and west, a model highly valuable to business people operating in global markets.Practical implicationsThis model provides a new way for both eastern and western business people to think about their organizations and markets that seems highly accurate to current conditions.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to explore a possible synthesis of strikingly similar principles from Chinese philosophy and complexity theory and how such a synthesis could be applied as a model of human and organizational behavior.

scholarly journals Organizational memorialization: spatial history and legitimation as chiasms

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
François-Xavier de Vaujany ◽  
Emmanuelle Vaast ◽  
Stewart R. Clegg ◽  
Jeremy Aroles
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Organizational Legitimacy ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
Management History ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its reproduction in the here-and-now of organizations and organizing.Design/methodology/approachThe authors briefly review the existing management and organization studies (MOS) literature on legitimacy, space and history; engage with the work of Merleau-Ponty to explore how organizational legitimacy is managed in time and space; and use the case of two Parisian universities to illustrate the main arguments of the paper.FindingsThe paper develops a history-based phenomenological perspective on legitimation processes constitutive of four possibilities identified by means of chiasms: heterotopic spatial legacy, thin spatial legacy, institutionalized spatial legacy and organizational spatial legacy.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors discuss the implications of this research for the neo-institutional literature on organizational legitimacy, research on organizational space and the field of management history.Originality/valueThis paper takes inspiration from the work of Merleau-Ponty on chiasms to conceptualize how the temporal layers of space and place that organizations inhabit and inherit (which we call “spatial legacies”), in the process of legitimation, evoke a sensible tenor.

The Physical University: Contours of space and place in higher education

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-74
Author(s):  
Michael Haggans
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an extended book review of “The Physical University”. Design/methodology/approach – This article takes the form of a literature review focusing on one title. Findings – This is an uneven collection of fragments of conventional late twentieth-century thinking about the physical campus. The future of the physical university, the campus is in doubt. Yet, only two of the dozen authors engage in this existential question. Originality/value – The collection of articles ranges from purely philosophical to moderately practical. It is a poor summary of current thought and offers little guidance for dealing with the evolving future of the physical university.

scholarly journals Grand ideas or delusions of grandeur? Placing big thinkers and essential theories in property economics research

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Squires
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Economics Research

PurposeThis article is looking to reflect on the various important touchstones of “grand theory” and “big thinkers” that can be framed when engaging empirical evidence in property economics research.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is reflexive in nature, using experiential reflection to consider theory in property economics. The importance of “methodology” is emphasised rather than “method”.FindingsUsing reflexive mode, the paper does not have “findings” as such: if the views expressed are accepted, then a research agenda to better understand property economics research is implied.Research limitations/implicationsThe nature of reflection is that it follows from the writer's experiential processes and interpretations. The reader may come from a different stance. Broadly accepting the propositions, there is a call for property economics research to be formulated in reason and logic, particularly as humans do not reason from facts alone. Such reasoned thinking could for example be in the property economic concepts of space and place, contracts and justice, capital and financialisation.Practical implicationsTo engage with such theory would provide some depth of philosophical roots for property as a discipline. Elevating property as a “real-world” discipline rather than simply an applied mathematics discipline.Social implicationsThe paper enables an understanding of how property economics research can benefit from more ontology and more inductive reasoning.Originality/valueThe paper reflects the views and experience of the author based on over 15 years of research in property economics.

Other’s place or othering space

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 405-421
Author(s):  
Dhammika Jayawardena
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Global South ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Analyze Data

Purpose This paper aims to understand the dialectical relationship between place-making and identity formation of factory women in a free trade zone (FTZ) in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach Inspired by Judith Butler’s notions of performative acts and performativity, the paper uses poststructuralist discourse analysis to analyze data – oral and written texts – generated through a fieldwork study conducted in an FTZ in Sri Lanka. Findings Performative acts and the performativity of the occupants in the FTZ demarcate the boundary of the zone and articulate the identities of its occupants. Furthermore, the study shows that, in this process, such performativity and performative acts function as a form of “glue” to amalgamate the places of the zone space as kalape, a complex socio-geographical landscape in flux. Research limitations/implications This study provides a new insight into the relationships between discursive-performative acts, place-making and identity formation of (factory) women in the neoliberalized (zone) space(s) of the Global South. Originality/value By articulating the FTZ as a (neoliberalized) space in a perpetual present, the study provides new insight into the relationships between performative acts, place-making and identity formation (of factory women) in the zone space.

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