scholarly journals Musical Taste and the Creation of Place-Dependent Capital: Manchester and the Indie Music Field

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-141
Author(s):  
Alexandros Skandalis ◽  
Emma Banister ◽  
John Byrom
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Indie Music

Drawing on qualitative interviews with indie music fans in Manchester, UK, we explore how experiences in the indie music field inform spatial and place-specific understandings of musical taste. Inspired by Bourdieu’s sociology of taste, the concept of place-dependent capital incorporates the interplay of the experiential dimensions of taste, and the overall structures in which they are embedded. We develop our findings into three themes, which allow us to highlight the diversity of ways in which our participants create place-dependent capital: exploring the taste of place; dwelling in place; and creating a sense of place. We propose the usefulness of place-dependent capital as an alternative theoretical tool, which acknowledges both structural and experiential dimensions of musical taste, allowing us to demonstrate the situatedness of indie music fans’ tastes.

scholarly journals A model of service design elements to understand innovative service processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison RIEPLE ◽  
Sirpa LASSILA ◽  
Caroline ENNIS
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Design Logic

This paper aims to provide an understanding of innovative service design processes by comparing service design logic with the entrepreneurial logics of causation, effectuation and bricolage (CEB). The paper draws upon empirical data to show how both service design logic and entrepreneurship logics may help us to create more innovative service design outcomes. In this process, we hope to understand how the creation of value enters into the service innovation process through co-creation between customers, organisations, ecosystem members and society. Data used within this paper includes deep qualitative interviews with key stakeholders, written documents and participative observation. From our analysis, we develop a model of service innovation design that shows how design logics and entrepreneurial logics influence the development of new and innovative services.

scholarly journals Austerity urbanism and Olympic counter-legacies: Gendering, defending and expanding the urban commons in East London

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 812-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Gillespie ◽  
Kate Hardy ◽  
Paul Watt
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Reproductive Activities ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
The City

This article reflects on an occupation led by single mothers to contest the destruction of social housing in post-Olympics East London. In the process, it argues for a more gendered theorisation of the urban commons. Drawing on auto-ethnography, participant observation and qualitative interviews, the article argues three central points: First, that the occupation demonstrates the gendered nature of the urban commons and the leadership of women in defending them from enclosure; second that the defence of an existing urban commons enabled the creation of a new temporary commons characterised by the collectivisation of gendered socially reproductive activities; and third that this commoning has had a lasting impact on housing activism at the city scale and beyond. This impact is conceptualised as an ‘Olympic counter-legacy’ that is characterised by the forging of new relationships and affinities, the strengthening of networked activism and circulation of tactics between campaign groups.

Food, music and politics: The interweaving of culinary taste patterns, ‘highbrow’ musical taste and conservative attitudes in Finland

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Semi Purhonen ◽  
Riie Heikkilä
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
High Status ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Music And Politics ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Lifestyle Patterns

This article addresses two key debates in cultural sociology: one on coherent lifestyle patterns crossing several cultural fields and one on pervasive lifestyles, which also includes, apart from the cultural elements, wider socio-political orientations. The study takes the point of view of three fields rarely studied together – food, music and political attitudes – employing a rich empirical research design utilizing both representative survey data ( N = 1,388) and qualitative interviews ( N = 28). Starting from the analysis of how culinary tastes are socially stratified in present-day Finland, three culinary taste patterns are identified: preferences for ‘heavy/meat’, ‘light/ethnic’ and ‘fast food’. The most salient distinction is established between the light/ethnic taste (indicating a trend towards high status, female and urban) and the heavy/meat taste (inclined towards low status, male and rural). Culinary taste patterns are closely related with ‘highbrow’ musical taste and politically conservative attitudes. In particular, the light/ethnic culinary pattern is strongly associated with highbrow musical taste and liberal attitudes. The results support the ideas of structural homology between cultural fields and lifestyle patterning, including an important political component. At the individual level however the ‘homology’ is often far from perfect.

England – Whose England? Narratives of Nostalgia, Emptiness and Evasion in Imaginations of National Identity

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Byrne
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Self ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Narrative Production ◽  
White Mothers ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Ways Of Being

This paper explores the contested and racialised nature of Englishness as a national identity. Based on qualitative interviews of white mothers in London, the paper examines the different ways in which the interviewees positioned themselves in relation to concepts of Englishness. National identity involves ways of being, a sense of place and belonging. It is produced through forms of myth-making and narrative production which depend on particular constructions of time and space. This paper examines how nation-ness is imagined and lived by the interviewees. It asks how constructions of Englishness related to constructions of the self and how imaginings of belonging involved imagining of otherness. It also describes how, for some of the interviewees, the domestic, particularly in notions of cleanliness and dirt, as well as food and consumption, was a key metaphor for explaining their relationship to national identity.

Investigating tourists’ and local residents’ perceptions of a Chinese film site

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Zhang ◽  
Chris Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Chinese Film ◽  
Popular Films ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Western Film

Film tourism is a growing phenomenon worldwide. The shooting of popular films and TV series at a destination can be seen as a very efficient driver for attracting tourists. This study focuses on a Chinese film site, Grand View Garden, located in Beijing. As the existing studies focus mainly on Western film sites, this study fills the gap with respect to the lack of research in the literature focusing on Chinese film tourism. This article examines both tourists’ and local residents’ motives for using such attractions, as well as the attitudes residents have toward tourists, and suggests that residents play a role in the creation of a sense of place that is valued by tourists. By using qualitative methods, this article provides a comparative view between tourists’ and local residents’ perceptions. Tourists thought the Garden’s interpretation services were poor and questioned the authenticity of the site, while local residents were concerned more about the Garden’s basic services and facilities. However, both classes of visitor attached importance to the retention of the heritage and culture of the Garden.

scholarly journals The ‘sense of place’ and the environmental context of Ar-Rahman Mosque architecture

2021 ◽  
Vol 881 (1) ◽  
pp. 012010
Author(s):  
A Bahauddin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Religious Understanding ◽  
Traditional Image

Abstract This paper main factors are mosque architecture, the theoretical framework of the ‘Sense of Place’, the creation of ‘Sacred Places’, the architectural and cultural heritage of Masjid Ar-Rahman, Kelantan, Malaysia. These factors are based on the Islamic religious understanding, and they are interrelated. The mosque is a sacred important symbol in Islam. The Malay Mosque is medium scale architecture, a humble typology but demonstrates strong cultural and architectural heritage. However, the current mosque architecture is dominated by the monumental domes and towers, the two foreign elements that replace native parts and alter the archipelago official mosque appearances. Hence the lack of local ‘Sense of Place’ and connection to the environment. The conceptual framework capitalizes the research gap found in mosque architecture by further delving into the creation of ‘Sacred Places’ through the ‘Sense of Place’. The Masjid Ar-Rahman of Pulau Gajah, constructed in 2016, demonstrates simplicity both in its traditional image and architectural scale with the Hindu-Buddhist syncretism. It is the value of hybrid assimilation and tolerance and coined as the Nusantara hybridised Malay and Javanese architectural styles and cultural heritage. This research employs qualitative methods of phenomenological and case study propositions supported by architectural evidence in emphasizing the symbolic and semiotic aesthetics aspects in constructing the ‘Sacred Spaces’ through the ‘Sense of Place’. The findings demonstrated that the ‘Sense of Place’ of Masjid Ar-Rahman is created by the simplicity of the mosque design reflected by the Sufistic beliefs and its connection to the environment.

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