scholarly journals “Once I’m there I can find out where I am”

Ethnologies ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bodner
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Spatial Construction ◽  
Subsistence Practices

Contemporary folklorists working on place have increasingly highlighted power and conflict as key aspects of spatial construction and the concomitant identity formation this practice provides. Utilizing this perspective and building on the work of social geographers’ research on the homeless I document the ways in which urban spatial regimes structure everyday practices of a street kid community in downtown Toronto. Utilizing the distinction between prime and marginal space to build an ecological map of the urban landscape I argue that my research participants’ utilization of de Certeau’s tactic of temporal manipulation claim public microsites for subsistence practices but reproduce their own esoteric subculture within marginal or refuse spaces that constitute a distinct backstage which rarely appears in the literature.

scholarly journals The visual-landscape analysis during the integration of high-rise buildings within the historic urban environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01044
Author(s):  
Vera A. Akristiniy ◽  
Elena A. Dikova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Visual Landscape ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Typological Structure ◽  
The City ◽  
Information Database

The article is devoted to one of the types of urban planning studies - the visual-landscape analysis during the integration of high-rise buildings within the historic urban environment for the purposes of providing pre-design and design studies in terms of preserving the historical urban environment and the implementation of the reconstructional resource of the area. In the article formed and systematized the stages and methods of conducting the visual-landscape analysis taking into account the influence of high-rise buildings on objects of cultural heritage and valuable historical buildings of the city. Practical application of the visual-landscape analysis provides an opportunity to assess the influence of hypothetical location of high-rise buildings on the perception of a historically developed environment and optimal building parameters. The contents of the main stages in the conduct of the visual - landscape analysis and their key aspects, concerning the construction of predicted zones of visibility of the significant historically valuable urban development objects and hypothetically planned of the high-rise buildings are revealed. The obtained data are oriented to the successive development of the planning and typological structure of the city territory and preservation of the compositional influence of valuable fragments of the historical environment in the structure of the urban landscape. On their basis, an information database is formed to determine the permissible urban development parameters of the high-rise buildings for the preservation of the compositional integrity of the urban area.

The not-yet-tropical: mapping recombinant ecologies in a Sydney suburb

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-352
Author(s):  
Ilaria Vanni ◽  
Alexandra Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Humid Climate ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Different Order ◽  
Green Corridors

Mapping and fitness apps, government agencies and departments, and citizen science projects provide a wealth of data on urban green spaces, charting parks, reserves, and green corridors in and around Sydney. These maps represent vegetation as surface and, as Doreen Massey in the 2005 book For Space noted about other types of Western maps, detach the observer from the object of their gaze. The authors argue that, in order to make recombinant ecologies present, as well as visible, we need a different order of maps, able to place the observer back in the thick of things, and to capture the entanglements between humans and more-than-human gatherings. This, they maintain, requires a shift to mapping as an embodied methodology that brings together walking, visual documentation and drawing. To do this, they present three walking maps of plants imagined as ‘tropical’ growing in Marrickville, a suburb in Gadigal-Wangal Country in Sydney’s inner west, an area located in the ‘sub-tropical humid’ climate zone map. Through the generation of three plant-led walking maps, they reveal recombinant Marrickville ecologies. They show how plants redesign the urban landscape and engender everyday practices in the gardens, verges, and non-cultivated parcels of land and, in doing so, contribute to sensing the suburb as tropical.

scholarly journals Social Inclusion and Local Practices of Belonging

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Garbutt
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Key Aspects

Social inclusion has been conceptualised as having two key aspects: distributional aspects relating to access to resources including employment, and relational aspects which concern the connections between people and the wider society. While both are important, the emphasis in Australian social inclusion policy has been on distributional aspects. This paper focuses on the relational aspects of social inclusion, and argues that it is critically important to include relational considerations in social inclusion policy. Central to the relational aspects of social inclusion is achieving a sense of belonging, particularly at the everyday, local level. Belonging in this everyday sense can be thought of as an ongoing project achieved through everyday practices, rather than solely in terms of membership of a group. While many such practices, for example regularly engaging in team sports, are accepted ways of establishing and maintaining belonging, for others in a community practices of belonging may necessitate disrupting or at least broadening the established norms of how one belongs. To ground this discussion of inclusion and belonging, this paper draws on practices of belonging in a regional community. Established norms of belonging are examined through the idea of ‘being a local’, a way of belonging that appears to be based on membership. The paper then turns to two local projects which disrupt the exclusive bounds of local membership and establish new and inclusive practices of belonging. To conclude, parallels are drawn between the boundaries which define ‘the social’ in social inclusion and ‘the local community’ in being a local, to argue for the importance of including relational aspects of social inclusion within social inclusion policy debates and program formulation.

Situated learning, post-migrant youth and ludic spaces in diverse urban environments in Italy

Modern Italy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-271
Author(s):  
Davide Zoletto
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
North East ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Spatial Construction ◽  
The Way

The aim of this article is to offer introductory theoretical arguments in order to research the role that urban ludic spaces play in post-migrants' everyday processes of situated learning. I discuss how situated learning processes are embedded in everyday webs of relationships, with special reference to spatial construction of intersectionality within power laden spaces affecting the way in which communities of practice develop in urban areas. I draw on results from a previous research carried out in diverse neighbourhoods of central and north-east Italian cities as an example of the way in which public playgrounds could be laden by power and could in this way affect the opportunities to share everyday practices and to build up a community of practices in non-formal and informal learning environments.

scholarly journals Lesing som anerkjennelse – den manglende dimensjonen i PISAs begrep om leseferdighet

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Odin Fauskevåg
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Small Extent ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Moral Conception ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Key Aspects

This article discusses the PISA framework’s concept of reading. The main argument is that PISA’s cognitive approach to literacy only to a small extent captures the normative dimension of reading. Consequently, the test fails to reflect key aspects of literacy, such as identity, identity formation and the ability to participate in society on a deeper level. The argument is based on a normative or moral conception of meaning and reading comprehension, based on Hegel’s concept of recognition.

scholarly journals Design Transformation based on Nature and Identity Formation in the Design of Landscape Elements

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulkifli Muslim
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Landscape Elements ◽  
Local Plant ◽  
Design Production ◽  
Local Plants ◽  
Core Characteristics

There is a lack of initiative from the designers to integrate the environmental resources in the material and design production of local urban landscape elements that reflects human culture and lifestyle. Based on criteria and principles of symbol design and transformation process, this paper describes the symbiotic relationship between local plants (flower) and designs of landscape elements. Using visual analysis, the researcher manipulated shapes and forms of local plant images in producing possible shapes and forms for a design of landscape element (lamp post). The results indicate that the design transformation is a systematic process that allows for variations in design without losing the core characteristics and identity of the basic elements of nature.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Design; transformation; nature; culture

Education Reform in Bolivia: Transitions Towards Which Future?

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-433
Author(s):  
José Antonio Arrueta ◽  
Helen Avery
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact

This article concerns the impact of educational reforms on young people in Bolivian society as they transition into adulthood, against the backdrop of globalisation and far-reaching structural changes. Ethnicity and cultural capital are linked in complex ways with social stratification in Bolivia. In a pluricultural society, the language of instruction and curricular content are among the most fundamental conditions that determine which social or linguistic groups will be excluded or disadvantaged during formal education. Language and content are particularly significant in identity formation and in the shaping of cultural capital. Each contributes to the formation of specific intercultural skills and opportunities for communication within national or international communities. Additionally, each of these components helps determine which educational paths are open for young people, and which activities they can engage with later in life. In Bolivia, various education reforms have attempted to reshape these parameters. Intercultural Bilingual Education and other key aspects of the reforms will be described along with the historical context in which they emerged. Some conclusions are put forward related to their implementation.

Exile Meets Homeland: Politics, Performance, and Authenticity in the Tibetan Diaspora

10.1068/d2805 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily T Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Tibetan Diaspora ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Usa

Tibetans are often imagined as authentic, pure, and geographically undifferentiated, but Tibetan identity formation is, in fact, varied and deeply inflected by national location and transnational trajectories. In this paper I examine the frictions of encounter between three groups of Tibetans who arrived in the USA around the same time, but who differ in their relationships to the homeland. The numerically dominant group consists of refugees who left Tibet in 1959 and of exiles born in South Asia; second are Tibetans who left Tibet after the 1980s for India and Nepal; and third are those whose routes have taken them from Tibet directly to the United States. Whereas the cultural authority claimed by long-term exiles derives from the notion of preserving tradition outside of Tibet, that of Tibetans from Tibet is based on their embodied knowledge of the actual place of the homeland. Their struggles over authenticity, which play out in everyday practices such as language use and embodied reactions to staged performances of ‘traditional culture’, call for an understanding of diaspora without guarantees. In this paper I use habitus as an analytic for exploring the ways in which identity is inscribed on and read off of bodies, and the political stakes of everyday practices that produce fractures and fault lines.

scholarly journals JSB as Democratic Emblem and Urban Focal Point: The Imagined Socio-Political Construction of Space

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 294-302
Author(s):  
Bayezid Ismail Choudhury ◽  
Paul Jones .
Keyword(s):  
Urban Geography ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Organic Growth ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City ◽  
Spatial Construction

Jatio Sangsad Bhaban [JSB], more commonly known as the National Assembly Building, or Capital Complex of Bangladesh, was designed by the renowned architect Louis I. Kahn and is an iconic landmark in the urban landscape of Dhaka (Capital of Bangladesh). It was commissioned in 1962, and a site was selected on the northern outskirt of the then Dacca (Dhaka). From the inception of the city, the rapid growth occurred mostly in a spontaneous way, which later occurred surrounding the JSB. JSB has become a central physical focus in Dhaka because of organic growth of Dhaka. JSB, the national assembly building of Bangladesh, can be viewed as a product of Bangladeshi nationalism, a socio-political construct that expresses both the national identity and the democratic spirit of the Bengali people after the country’s tumultuous history of subjugation, occupation. This paper proposes that there exists an imagined, symbolic and metaphorical connection between the spatial construction of JSB as an urban focal point, and its socio-political construction. This imagined nexus is explored in this paper in line with the theoretical framework of Lefebvre’s (1991) groundbreaking treatise on the ‘production of space’. The imagined and real socio-political construction of space is also endorsed by a range of discourses from urban anthropology, urban geography, human and cultural geography.

scholarly journals Placing Personhood: Ontology, The Life Course, and Cemeteries

Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathrine Degnen
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Real World ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Life Course

This article considers the challenge of teaching the anthropology of personhood to third year sociology and combined honours undergraduates at a British university. It draws on the experiences of the author in developing such a module, and in particular the difficulties of making the theoretical and empirical concepts at stake more tangible to this cohort of students. The article explores one solution, namely a seminar-based fieldwork exercise in a local cemetery. The exercise sought to bring personhood �into view� in the urban landscape and in everyday practices with a follow-up series of student presentations. The discussion here highlights the theoretical framing of personhood and ontology taken by the module; the dilemmas of finding �real world� and emplaced sites for the students to try out these ideas; and some of the reflections on teaching personhood via this exercise that resulted for both students and lecturer.

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