7. Soziale Orte in einer vulnerablen Gesellschaft

Kersten, Jens; Neu, Claudia; Vogel, Berthold

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“…This article began from the assumption that face-to-face encounters are commonly seen as a prerequisite for social interactions that foster both personal well-being and social inclusion in terms of community building. Building on existing research on social places (Kersten et al, 2022) and attempts to classify places of encounter (Oldenburg, 1989;Soszyński et al, 2021), we proposed an integrative methodology that includes the voices of local inhabitants and is able to "map" places of encounter, reconstruct individual and locally specific attributions of meaning, and assess the role of such places in social inclusion. The mapping of places of encounter represents an integrative approach that brings together the often separately discussed roles of encounter for the individual, society and normative concepts such as community in one research design.…”

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“…However, this idea remains marginal in academic as well as social discourse on places of encounter and meeting places. Rather, places of encounter are mainly perceived as institutionalized places that have a certain consistency and require a lot of organizational effort (Kersten et al, 2022; Soszyński et al, 2021), while accidental encounters have been considered rather marginal in practice as well as in academia. In the literature, various co-existing terms can be found on this topic, including, but not limited to places of encounter, places of interaction, meeting places or gathering places.…”

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Mapping Places of Encounter: An Integrative Methodological Approach to Understanding Social Inclusion

Spenger

Kordel

Weidinger

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Physical places of encounter are nodes of social interaction in which moments of social inclusion and exclusion crystallize. On a methodological level, meeting places have in the past usually been associated either with firmly established spatial arrangements or with situational opportunities of encounter. Acknowledging the complexity of places of encounter and developing further a spatio-visual mapping tool conducted in various research projects on local inclusion of newcomers, we propose an integrative research approach to capturing, mapping and analyzing places of encounter via four dimensions: level of institutionalization, level of intentionality, level of inclusion and horizontal and vertical scale. The proposed place-based approach holds the chance to explicitly take into account a spatial perspective in the analysis of social interactions. Thus, it goes beyond mere network analysis, but is able to capture the socio-spatial conditions of encounters as pre-configurations of further social dynamics. In doing so, we address not only the methodological gap in research but also the practical relevance for identifying and evaluating locally important meeting places. More specifically, as part of a qualitative interview, the mapping tool can enable the participation of people whose voices are seldom heard, while the inclusion of multiple perspectives on places of encounter may facilitate local governance processes in the social realm.

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Mapping Places of Encounter: An Integrative Methodological Approach to Understanding Social Inclusion

Spenger

Kordel

Weidinger

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Zusammenhalt in Form interpersonellen Vertrauens kann eher durch die Gelegenheit des Kontakts entstehen. Ein zentrales Argument hierfür liefert das Soziale-Orte-Konzept (Kersten et al 2022), das im Grunde besagt, dass es Orte der Begegnung braucht, an dem sich gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt überhaupt erst bilden kann. Soziale Orte können dabei Nachbarschafstreffs, Vereinshäuser usw.…”

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Kurtenbach

2024

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Während immer neue Spaltungslinien wie soziale Ungleichheit, politische Polarisierung oder der Umgang mit Krisen zu gesellschaftlicher Fragmentierung führen, wird übersehen, dass Nachbarschaft im Alltag ein Potenzial für Zusammenhalt birgt. Das Buch geht daher der Frage nach, was Nachbarschaft eigentlich ist, und präsentiert zahlreiche empirische Befunde. Sebastian Kurtenbach zeigt, wie Nachbarschaft heute verstanden werden kann, welche Rolle Organisationen oder die Digitalisierung für das nachbarschaftliche Zusammenleben spielen, und welche Unterschiede zwischen Nachbarschaft in der Stadt und auf dem Land bestehen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.de

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“…Social actors in remote and deprived rural areas face various challenges in many countries around the world [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. While the specific conditions and scale of the challenges vary from country to country, there are often commonalities.…”

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“…Public transport is also very limited [1]. A lack of communication within these communities is another common complaint owing to the disappearance of places for communication (e.g., the village pub, parish or school building) [2]. Although we live in an age of widespread digitalisation, the digital infrastructure in rural areas is often still poor.…”

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Socially Innovative Initiatives in Deprived Rural Areas of Germany, Ireland and Portugal: Exploring Empowerment and Impact on Community Development

Christmann,

Sept,

Richter

2024

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In many (remote) rural areas of Europe and the world, rural communities are facing various challenges. One response is residents leaving their communities. However, there are also many empirical examples of residents staying, launching project initiatives, developing new solutions and experimenting with new practices. This is what we call social innovation. What experiences do actors have in these processes? Can we speak of empowerment? To what extent can such initiatives have an impact on community development? In this article, we explore these questions, for which there is little related empirical research. By applying a multi-sited individualising comparison to case studies in three European countries (Germany, Ireland and Portugal), we obtain empirical evidence of the following dimensions of empowerment that Avelino et al. outline conceptually: the achievement of autonomy, competence and relatedness and also impact, meaning and resilience. Often, however, it is not the individual actors for whom such effects can be reported. Rather, the social initiative as such or the local administration has acquired new skills and autonomy. Regarding community development, ‘pathways to impact’, such as infrastructure improvements and/or the creation of new employment opportunities and/or the influx of new residents, could be identified. However, this development often depended on both opportunity and the cooperation and goodwill of many stakeholders.

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7. Soziale Orte in einer vulnerablen Gesellschaft

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Mapping Places of Encounter: An Integrative Methodological Approach to Understanding Social Inclusion

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