Flyktige rom og tynne steder: En transnasjonal og spatial analyse av pentekostale migrantmenigheter i Norge

Spatial Dimensions ◽

Religious Landscape ◽

This article discusses sociocultural and theological aspects related to space and place for Christian migrants and Pentecostal migrant churches in Norway. The article addresses how Christian migrants and migrant congregations relate to and produce dimensions of place and space within their migratory contexts, drawing from contextual examples and theoretical perspectives on space and place. Thus, spatial perspectives provide frameworks for discussing issues of belonging, religious discourses, and spirituality with regard to the migrant communities themselves, in the wider religious landscape, and in society. In particular, we ask how experiences of spatial and social constraints help shed light on how migrants and migrant churches seek to make home in new contexts. This also relates to how these migrants and churches navigate within the translocal, symbolic and virtual landscapes of Pentecostal transnational networks. Finally, the article addresses spatial dimensions of these churches and networks’ aims to bring about spiritual and societal transformation.

Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies - Applied Psycholinguistics and Multilingual Cognition in Human Creativity ◽

Orthographical, Phonological, and Morphological Challenges in Language Processing

10.4018/978-1-5225-6992-3.ch001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-30

Author(s):

Ilhan Raman ◽

Yasemin Yildiz

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Heritage Language ◽

Dynamic Processes ◽

Bilingual Speakers ◽

The Uk ◽

The Relationship ◽

Heritage Language Speakers ◽

Theoretical Considerations ◽

The chapter examines the relationship between orthography, phonology, and morphology in Turkish and what this means for Turkish-English bilingual language processing. Turkish offers a unique language medium in pitching theoretical perspectives both in linguistics and psycholinguistics against each other because of its properties. Empirical and theoretical considerations are employed from both domains in order to shed light on some of the current challenges. In line with contemporary thought, this chapter is written with the view that bilingual speakers engage a singular language or lexical system characterized by fluid and dynamic processes. Particular focus will be given to English-Turkish speaking bilinguals in the UK, which includes heritage (HL) and non-heritage language speakers. Evidence from monolingual developmental research as well as neuropsychology will be examined to confirm findings of previous studies in other European contexts, and also to raise attention to various challenges which need to be addressed across all contexts.

Technosocial Space

Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-020-2.ch005 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 54-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anne Sofie Laegran

Keyword(s):

Rural Communities ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Space And Place ◽

The Internet ◽

Place And Space ◽

Identity Markers ◽

A Site ◽

Different Levels ◽

The Way ◽

Internet Cafes

The chapter is based on a study of Internet cafés in Norway, and interrogates the way space and place is produced in interconnections between people and technology in the Internet café. Drawing on actornetwork theory and practice-oriented theories of place and space, the Internet café is understood as technosocial spaces producing connections between people and places at different levels. Firstly, the Internet café can be understood as a hybrid, a site where users and technologies as well as space are coconstructed in entwined processes where gender, as well as other identity markers, are central in the way the technology, as well as the cafés, develop and are understood. The next level looks at the production of Internet cafés as technosocial spaces. Despite being perceived as an “urban” and “global” phenomenon, Internet cafés are configured based on local circumstances, in urban as well as rural communities. Differing images of what the cafés want to achieve, as well as material constrains, are at play in this process. Finally, the chapter shows how Internet cafés are places of connections, producing space beyond the walls of the café, linking the local into a translocal sphere.

Utilizing Gamification in Servicescapes for Improved Consumer Engagement - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

What Can Gamification Learn From Sensory Marketing?

10.4018/978-1-7998-1970-7.ch003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 52-85

Author(s):

Miralem Helmefalk

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Outcomes ◽

Interaction Effects ◽

Causal Chain ◽

Future Research ◽

Sensory Marketing ◽

Game Mechanics ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

While gamification research is multidisciplinary and has grown in popularity during the last decade, it still requires further evidence and direction on which and how much various game mechanics impact on cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes in digital and physical servicescape contexts. To shed light on this problem, a novel perspective on sensory marketing and gamification was chosen. This chapter has discussed and analyzed the similarities and differences between sensory marketing and gamification, as well as what theoretical perspectives and practices gamification can borrow from sensory marketing. Six issues have surfaced that require more research on this matter: (1) The interaction effects, (2) Weight and impact, (3) Congruency, (4) Complexity, (5) (sub)Conscious/(non)visible elements, and (6) The causal chain. This chapter explains and discusses these issues and offers future research avenues.

Healing Place and Self: The Renewed Ecological Perception and the Invisible Landscape in Barbara Kingsolverʼs Animal Dreams

MANUSYA ◽

10.1163/26659077-02001005 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 68-92

Author(s):

Wisarut Painark

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

Space And Place ◽

Traumatic Experience ◽

Mining Company ◽

Place And Space ◽

Sense Of Home ◽

Environmental Activity ◽

The Invisible

This paper examines how an individual’s perception of the environment not only affects her treatment of the land but also plays an important role in healing her wounded self and fostering her sense of belonging to the human community in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams (1991). It will draw upon Yi-fu Tuan’s notion of place and space in Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (1977) and Kent C. Ryden’s notion of “the invisible landscape” in Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place (1993). Tuan postulates that space becomes place when it is endowed with value and meaning and Ryden develops Tuan’s notion by arguing that meaningful human experience in a place constitutes what he calls “the invisible landscape” which refers to various other dimensions of the land apart from its physicality. Focusing on the development of the protagonist’s perception of her hometown from a sense of alienation to a more intimate relationship in Animal Dreams, this paper will specifically argue that, because her hometown faces a disastrous contamination of the river caused by the mining company, the environmental activism in which the protagonist engages significantly deepens her understanding of the place. Thus, her participation in the environmental campaign serves as a first step towards her discernment of the “invisible landscape” and also her process of healing. The environmental activity which protects both the environment and the community’s cultural identity and also the protagonist’s developing bonds with people in the community expose her to the historical, cultural and spiritual dimensions of the land. Furthermore, this renewed perception leads to the protagonist’s inhabitation of the place and her discovery of a sense of home which helps to restore her shattered self from the traumatic experience and the feeling of displacement caused by the loss of her mother and her baby during her younger years; it also induces her to reappraise her sense of selfhood as being inseparable from both the land and its inhabitants, either human or non-human. Ultimately, her clear appreciation of this more inclusive sense of self and the environment enables her to reintegrate herself into the community of her hometown.

Mexican Peonage: What Was It and Why Was It?

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x00011160 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 41-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 67

Author(s):

Alan Knight

Keyword(s):

Profit Maximizing ◽

Our knowledge of Mexican agrarian history has been greatly enhanced by hacienda studies, based on original hacienda archives. Inter alia, these have finished off for good the old notion of ‘feudal’ hacendados who spurned profit for prestige. But if – thanks to their reliance on hacienda accounts – these studies have shed light on hacienda marketing and profit-maximizing, they have told us less about the hacienda's internal workings. The hacienda's relations of exchange are, therefore, better understood than its relations of production. And, from some theoretical perspectives, it is the latter which are primary (which, in grand terms, determine whether the hacienda is to be termed ‘feudal’, ‘capitalist’ or something else again).

People, place, and space: Theoretical and empirical reflections in studying urban open space

Geographical Journal of Nepal ◽

10.3126/gjn.v14i0.35558 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 171-188

Author(s):

Krishna Prasad Timalsina

Keyword(s):

Open Space ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

Place And Space ◽

Urban Open Space ◽

Human Interactions ◽

Cultural Life ◽

The Social ◽

Indigenous Society ◽

Human Geographer

People, place, and space are the main domain of spatial research which is widely discussed in the geographic discipline. Geographers always focus on the meanings related to space and human interactions to explain people, place, and space. The concept was explained by Richard Harsthrone (1959), Fred E Lukermann (1964), David Harvey (1969), Henri Lefebvre (1974), Yi-fu Tuan (1974), Edward Relph (1976) and Doreen Massey (2005), etc. As a human geographer, Yi.fu Tuan has a great contribution to explain people-place relations and further explained by Relph, Massey, and other scholars. Grounding on the geographic research traditions, this paper presents the concept of people, place, and space reviewing the historiographical literatures and some empirical research studies on people-space relations. Theorists have argued that people and space are deep-rooted in studying place attachment creating people’s sense of place. People’s actions and behaviors create meaning through their individual and communal behaviors in that space where they live and interact. Moreover, theoretical perspectives argue that placemaking is always associated with the social and cultural dimensions of a society. Empirically, as an indigenous society, people from the core area of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) have been perceiving urban open space as a commonplace for social and cultural life activities whereas migrants’ people living in the newly growing settlements have been perceiving the open space as a place for recreation and social capital enhancement.

Environmental Protection and Quality of Life

10.4018/978-1-7998-8459-0.ch001 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Snežana Živković ◽

Slobodan Milutinović

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Individual Quality ◽

Human Needs ◽

Subjective Measurements ◽

Basic Human Needs ◽

Individual Quality Of Life ◽

Development of environmental protection together with economic and social development can be considered sustainable only if they support individual quality of life. Conceptually, quality of life is closely related to sustainable development, since sustainability implies a balance between environmental, social, and economic qualities. Environmental quality is reflected in its ability to meet the basic human needs. Quality of life is a complex and multi-dimensional construct that warrants multiple approaches from different theoretical perspectives. Evaluation of the quality of life determined by the environment can be facilitated using objective and subjective measurements. Regardless of how these two indicators are classified, both are considered equally beneficial and valuable for research. Considering all the above mentioned, the aim of this chapter is to shed light on the importance of environmental protection for the quality of life, as well as the necessity to measure quality of life determined by environmental factors in order to adequately manage them.

A multilocality study of a sound change in progress: The case of /l/ vocalization in New Zealand and Australian English

Language Variation and Change ◽

10.1017/s0954394501131029 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 37-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Barbara M. Horvath ◽

Ronald J. Horvath

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Language Change ◽

Spatial Models ◽

Field Method ◽

Space And Place ◽

Speech Community ◽

Place And Space ◽

Speech Communities ◽

Australian English ◽

Place Effects

It is usual to study a number of linguistic variables in a single speech community. The present study, however, focuses on a single phonological variable in a number of speech communities—the vocalization of /l/ in nine Australian and New Zealand cities—in order to (1) strengthen and extend the quick and anonymous field method by designing an instrument to include all relevant phonological environments; (2) demonstrate the strategic potential of moving from a unilocality to a multilocality sociolinguistics; (3) conceptualize a variationist isogloss that extends rather than displaces the core methodology of sociolinguistics; and (4) propose a conception of geography that offers mechanisms (space and place effects) to help distinguish language change processes that are universal from those that are not. Place and space represent a system of contrasts within geography. Place effects refer to the ensemble of sociolinguistic conditions within a speech locality, whereas space effects refer to the relationship between speech localities. Place effects provide a potential explanation for why spatial models fail to account adequately for the facts: that is, why some places resist the spread of innovation while other places welcome innovation.

Visual figures of musical form between musicological examination and auditory perception based on Morgan’s analysis of the “Tristan” Prelude

Music & Science ◽

10.1177/2059204318794364 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 205920431879436

Author(s):

Pascal Rudolph ◽

Mats B. Küssner

Keyword(s):

Schema Theory ◽

New Music ◽

Musical Form ◽

Music Psychology ◽

Starting Point ◽

Tristan Und Isolde ◽

Specific Interpretation ◽

Further Development ◽

While Wagner and his music have been studied extensively from musicological and music-theoretical perspectives, recent scientific approaches shed light on perceptual processes implicated in the experience of Wagner’s music, yielding important insights into the (re)cognition of musical form. Since findings from such studies are mainly discussed within the realm of music psychology and rarely find their way (back) into musicological discourses, the starting point of the present study is a specific interpretation of form in the “Tristan” Prelude (Prelude to Tristan und Isolde) with a view to engaging in an exchange between music-theoretical and cognitive approaches (such as the theory of conceptual metaphor and image schema theory) to Wagner’s music. In his article “Circular form in the ‘Tristan’ Prelude”, Robert P. Morgan developed a new music-analytical approach to studying form in Wagner’s music, proposing that the musical form of the Prelude can be understood as a circle. Morgan provides an empirically-tractable hypothesis which was tested in a listening study with 45 participants to investigate the extent to which Morgan’s analytical shape is audibly perceived. Contrary to Morgan’s circular interpretation of form in the “Tristan” Prelude, the findings of our study suggest the primacy of a different visual figure, the spiral. However, recourse to the analytic discourse suggests that the spiral can be understood as a further development of Morgan’s figure of thought, synthesizing representations of the Prelude's repetition and development by capturing its unique coincidence of both linearity and circularity. This approach to understanding the “Tristan” Prelude demonstrates how applying music-theoretical and cognitive science approaches gives rise to a fruitful dialogue for both disciplines.

Complexity Theory in the Study of Space and Place

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a37100 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 677-692 ◽

Cited By ~ 74

Author(s):

Steven Manson ◽

David O'Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Complexity Theory ◽

Earthquake Prediction ◽

Space Research ◽

Space And Place ◽

Place And Space ◽

Key Issues

Researchers across disciplines apply complexity theory to issues ranging from economic development to earthquake prediction. The breadth of applications speaks to the promise of complexity theory, but there remain a number of challenges to be met, particularly those related to its ontological and epistemological dimensions. We identify a number of key issues by asking three questions. Does complexity theory operate at too general a level to enhance understanding? What are the ontological and epistemological implications of complexity? What are the challenges in modeling complexity? In answering these questions, we argue that, although complexity offers much to the study of place and space, research in these areas has a number of strengths that enhance complexity research.