Location as a sense of place: everyday life, mobile, and spatial practices in urban spaces

2014 ◽  
pp. 121-136
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Spatial Practices

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 The Politics of Gendered Spatializations: A Study of Cityscapes in Manu Joseph’s Novels

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Parvathi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Image ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Burton Pike (1981) terms the cityscapes represented in literature as word-cities whose depiction captures the spatial significance evoked by the city-image and simultaneously, articulates the social psychology of its inhabitants (pp. 243). This intertwining of the social and the spatial animates the concept of spatiality, which informs the positionality of urban subjects, (be it the verticality of the city or the horizonality of the landscape) and determines their standpoint (Keith and Pile, 1993). The spatial politics underlying cityscapes, thus, determine the modes of social production of sexed corporeality. In turn, the body as a cultural product modifies and reinscribes the urban landscape according to its changing demographic needs. The dialectic relationship between the city and the bodies embedded in them orient familial, social, and sexual relations and inform the discursive practices underlying the division of urban spaces into public and private domains. The geographical and social positioning of the bodies within the paradigm of the public/private binary regulates the process of individuation of the bodies into subjects. The distinction between the public and the private is deeply rooted in spatial practices that isolate a private sphere of domestic, embodied activity from the putatively disembodied political, public sphere. Historically, women have been treated as private and embodied and the politics of the demarcated spaces are employed to control and limit women’s mobility. This gendered politics underlying the situating practices apropos public and private spaces inform the representations of space in literary texts. Manu Joseph’s novels, Serious Men (2010) and The Illicit Happiness of Other People (2012), are situated in the word-cities of Mumbai and Chennai respectively whose urban spaces are structured by such spatial practices underlying the politics of location. The paper attempts to problematize the nature of gendered spatializations informing the location of characters in Serious Men and The Illicit Happiness of Other People.

scholarly journals “Trabalho-lazeando” e o “prédio antigo” na “esquina” do bairro de Nazaré em Belém (PA)

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosangela Marques de Britto
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Individual Memory

O artigo resulta de parte do estudo etnográfico do cotidiano e das memórias de indivíduos e grupos sociais urbanos, realizado entre 2012 até março de 2014, que priorizou compreender e interpretar as relações dos agrupamentos humanos no entorno do patrimônio musealizado, onde foi instalado, em 1984, o Museu da Universidade Federal do Pará. Estas formas e conteúdos do cotidiano se processam pelas matérias das recordações dos quatro interlocutores acerca dos usos do espaço social-urbano da rua, situados nas calçadas da “esquina” do entorno do museu localizado no bairro de Nazaré, na cidade de Belém. Pretendo descrever as narrativas destes interlocutores a partir da “etnografia de rua” de suas representações e práticas espaciais de trabalhar nas ruas. Ao final, descreverei as perspectivas êmicas destes trabalhadores de rua em relação à circulação das pessoas no “dentro” e no “fora” do muro (jardim) do museu, e sobre as mudanças e permanências daquela paisagem urbana e o significado de seus ofícios/trabalhos.Palavras-chave: Espaço urbano e social. Práticas de sociabilidade na rua. Memória Individual e Coletiva. “Etnografia de rua”. Patrimônio histórico musealizado."Work-leisuring" and the "old building" on the "corner" of Nazaré neighborhood in Belém (PA)AbstractThe article results from part of the ethnographic study of everyday life and memories of individuals and urban social groups, conducted between 2012 until March 2014, which prioritized understand and interpret the relationships of human groups surround of musealized heritage, where it was installed in 1984 Museum of the Federal University of Pará. These forms and contents of the memories materials are processed daily for four interlocutors, about the uses of social-urban street spot located on the sidewalks of the "corner" surround of the museum located in the Nazaré neighborhood, in Belém. Intend to describe the narratives of these interlocutors from the "street ethnography" of your representations and spatial practices of work on the streets. At the end describe the emic perspectives of these four street workers in relation to the movement of people "inside" and "outside" the wall (garden) of the museum, and on the changes and continuities of the landscape of the streets and the meaning of their crafts / jobs.Key-words: Social and urban spot. Practices of sociability on the streets. Collective and individual memory. "Street ethnography". Historic heritage musealized.

Debord, Guy (1931–1994)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Robert Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Situationist International ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
Advanced Capitalism ◽  
The City

Guy Ernest Debord (1931–1994) was a French radical political theorist, writer, activist and filmmaker. After his early involvement with French avant-garde art movements in the 1950s, Debord founded a revolutionary organization, the Situationist International (SI), in 1957. Inspired by earlier avant-garde movements like Dada and surrealism, Debord sought to create an explicitly political and critical art practice that could be employed to transform everyday life. The SI attracted sound poets, architects, writers, activists, graphic artists and painters. The movement sought to merge everyday life, art and politics through such practices as radical city planning, the beautification of the city through graffiti, and rambling psycho-geographic drifts through urban spaces, seeking to uncover the desire and beauty that had been hidden by advanced capitalism.

scholarly journals Shared technology making in neoliberal ruins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Yueh Perng
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Future Possibility ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
The Right

Shared technology making refers to the practices, spaces and events that bear the hope and belief that collaborative and open ways of designing, making and modifying technology can improve our ways of living. Shared technology making in the context of the smart city reinvigorates explorations of the possibility of free, open and collaborative ways of engineering urban spaces, infrastructures and public life. Open innovation events and civic hacking initiatives often encourage members of local communities, residents, or city administrations to participate so that the problems they face and the knowledge they possess can be leveraged to develop innovations from the working (and failure) of urban everyday life and (non-)expert knowledges. However, the incorporation of shared technology making into urban contexts engender concerns around the right to participate in shared technology- and city-making. This paper addresses this issue by suggesting ways to consider both the neoliberal patterning of shared technology making and the patches and gaps that show the future possibility of shared city making. It explores the ways in which shared technology making are organised using hackathons and other hacking initiatives as an example. By providing a hackathon typology and detailed accounts of the experiences of organisers and participants of related events, the paper reconsiders the neoliberalisation of shared technology making. It attends to the multiple, entangled and conflictual relationships that do not follow corporate logic for considering the possibilities of more open and collaborative ways of technology- and city-making.

scholarly journals NEGOTIATED URBAN SPACE AT MANGGARAI STATION JAKARTA: THE APPROPRIATION OF SPACE BY BAJAJ DRIVERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Nurliani Lukito ◽  
Rumishatul Ulya
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Urban Informality ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
The City ◽  
Limited Possibility

This paper aims to investigate the negotiation between the “formal” and the “informal” urban space in Jakarta through the examination of use of space of marginalized transportation of bajaj – a three-wheeled public transportation. Bajaj drivers continuously and creatively create their use of space and territory as the result of the limitation of space. Creativity in using space emerges as a way to get available space and this activity results in the appropriation of urban space. The basis of such appropriation is how to survive in urban space and such condition is characterized by negotiation, flexibility and adaptability. In high-density Jakarta city, it is necessary for bajaj drivers – who have only limited possibility in using strategic urban space – to use both the formal and the informal to sustain the city at large. An analysis of how bajaj drivers negotiated urban spaces around Manggarai Station reveals the appropriation of urban space that relies on temporality, tactics and negotiation of rules of access among users. In this paper, we analyze how urban informality as an ‘organizing logic’ results in a specific mode of the production of space. The analysis of negotiations of space around Manggarai Station is intended to contribute to an understanding of how informal and negotiated spaces, which shape everyday life in the city, are inseparable parts of formal and designed spaces in the city of Jakarta.

“Södertälje Is a Theater”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Mack
Keyword(s):  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Spatial Practices

Chapter 4 focuses on both permanent spaces and temporary spatial practices associated with weddings and funerals. Urban spaces have become backdrops for a roleplaying game with an ever-attentive audience, as Syriacs metamorphose between audience members and stage actors and continually reinscribe social expectations about personal bodily and social propriety.

Peasant Perceptions of Landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mileson ◽  
Stuart Brookes
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Step Change ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Wood Pasture ◽  
Documentary History ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
History Of

This is the first book about peasant perceptions of landscape. It marks a step-change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places where they lived. This book provides exactly such an analysis by examining peasant perceptions in one geographical area over the long period from AD 500 to 1650. It takes as its focus Ewelme hundred, a well-documented and archaeologically rich area of lowland vale and hilly Chiltern wood-pasture comprising fourteen ancient parishes. The analysis draws on a range of sources including legal depositions and thousands of field-names and bynames preserved in largely unpublished deeds and manorial documents. Archaeology makes a major contribution, particularly for understanding the period before 900, but more generally in reconstructing the fabric of villages and the framework for inhabitants’ spatial practices and experiences. In its focus on the way inhabitants interacted with the landscape in which they worked, prayed, and socialized, the book supplies a new history of the lives and attitudes of the bulk of the rural population who so seldom make their mark in traditional landscape analysis or documentary history.

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