(Dis)connected communities and sustainable place-making

Franklin, Alex; Marsden, Terry

doi:10.1080/13549839.2015.1087453

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“…The term sense of place relates to peoples "ability to develop feelings of attachment to particular settings" (Stokowsky, 2002, p. 368) and the term placemaking is often used to describe the process "of transforming spaces into qualitative places" (Cilliers and Timmermans, 2014, p. 414). Placemaking is an ongoing, emergent, relational and social process of investing in spaces (Franklin and Marsden, 2015) involving collective action (Semenza, 2003). It is commonly an activity in which "people actively create meaningful places through conversation and interaction with others" (Stokowsky, 2002, p. 272) through the performance "of practices which serve to connect heterogeneous elements and draw them together into conversation, to produce and maintain a particular coherence; to make place" (Sweeney et al, 2018, p. 573).…”

Section: Sense Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Children threw water bombs at one another, people danced and listened to music. Creating and participating in these events is an example of active placemaking (Franklin and Marsden, 2015) encouraging "plasticity of habit" (Noble, 2013, p. 176) by disrupting mundane interactions and producing memorable experiences to support post-party social interactions in the street. Similar to studies by Semenza and March (2009) and Noble (2013) at this party communal creativity developed encounters, shared experiences and collective memories.…”

Section: Sense Of Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The street party: pleasurable community practices and placemaking

Stevenson

2019

IJEFM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore spatial and social practices associated with a community street party through the lens of literature on encounter, conviviality and placemaking, considering its role developing a place-based sense of community. Design/methodology/approach The research is based upon a case study of a street party in London. Data sources include interviews, a questionnaire, observation and a literature review. Findings The conviviality associated with partying disrupts mundane social relations and engages diverse communities in placemaking. People playfully engage with one another, performing and reinforcing community and place values in the environment outside their homes. Practical implications This paper aims to engender understanding and encourage urban policy makers to support activities which combine pleasure and play to develop a place-based sense of community. It identifies practices which actively engage people at a grassroots level and enable them to articulate and perform community values. Social implications Developing a sense of community in rapidly changing and diverse urban areas presents challenges for urban policy makers. Grassroots activities such as street parties often fall outside of funding streams, debates and formal policy making for cities but it is argued here that they enable people to engage in pleasurable and playful interaction and have an important role in disrupting mundane interactions and connecting people. Originality/value This paper progresses discussion of community events from a social perspective through an original study, identifying specific practices which contribute to a place-based sense of community.

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Section: Sense Of Placementioning

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Section: Sense Of Communitymentioning

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The street party: pleasurable community practices and placemaking

Stevenson

2019

IJEFM

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“…Taking a critical perspective requires us to understand that each time community is engaged with as an arm's length agent of the state (or similar institution), it is imagined to be constituted of subjects acting in a particular way . Such imagined subjectivities impact in turn on how community members understand their own subjectivities as agents.…”

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Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

Aiken

Middlemiss

Sallu

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WIREs Climate Change

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In a 2011 contribution to this journal, Walker examined the ways that community is routinely employed in carbon governance, suggesting the need for more critical approaches. Here, we characterize an emerging, critical approach to researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts, focusing attention principally on the global north, where this body of research has emerged. This work recognizes communities as sites of contestation, difference, tension, and distinction, in which action on climate change can be designed to meet a range of political and public ends. It aims to uncover the political and social context for community action on climate change, to be alert to the power relations inside and outside of communities, and to the context of neoliberalism, including individualism, the will to quantify, and competition. Furthermore, research in this space is committed to understanding both the lived experience of the messy empirical worlds we encounter, and the potential agency coalescing in community responses to climate change. Much of the work to date, discussed here, has focused on communities working on climate change mitigation in the global north, in which the idea of community as a space for governance is gaining traction. We also comment on the positioning of these arguments in the context of long‐standing debates in the fields of ‘community‐based’ development, natural resource management, and adaptation in the global South. This discussion establishes a foundation from which to progress learning across fields and geopolitical boundaries, furthering critical thinking on ‘community.’ WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e463. doi: 10.1002/wcc.463 This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Social Movements

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“…; van der Ploeg and Marsden ; Marsden ; Horlings and Marsden ). This body of work emphasises the more contingent social, economic and political regionalisation and differentiation of regions and places, and the new relations and ‘equations’ which are emerging between urban and rural places (see Franklin and Marsden ).…”

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Exploring the Rural Eco‐Economy: Beyond Neoliberalism

Marsden

2016

Sociologia Ruralis

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Rural areas become central sites for the development of the post‐carbon transition, yet this is a highly contested and contingent process whereby neo‐liberal models of development and framings compete with the emergence of the alternative circular eco‐economy. The article argues for a grounded conceptual and empirical approach in tracing this overall process of sustainable place‐making. It explores three key highly contested dimensions: reflexive governance, distributed eco‐economies, and re‐financialisation, arguing that such explorations are critical in developing more sustainable rural‐urban functionalities for the necessary post‐ carbon and post‐neoliberal transition.

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(Dis)connected communities and sustainable place-making

Cited by 9 publications

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The street party: pleasurable community practices and placemaking

The street party: pleasurable community practices and placemaking

Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

Exploring the Rural Eco‐Economy: Beyond Neoliberalism

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