Geographies of public space: Variegated publicness, variegated epistemologies

Qian, Junxi

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“…We highlight the importance of these activity places (especially workplaces and parks and green spaces) because ignoring people's exposures in these activity places will highly likely lead to erroneous results in the measurement of ethnic exposure and racial/ethnic segregation. As recent studies suggest, workplaces [36] and open spaces [37] are other areas beyond people's residential neighborhoods that are important for examining socio-spatial segregation or integration.…”

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“…As recent studies indicate, even when disadvantaged residents have high exposures to advantaged social groups, their relative isolation and segregation may persist [38]. This is because cross-group contacts or encounters in urban spaces do not necessarily translate into true social integration or respect for difference [39]; rather, spaces of encounters could remake and enact social difference, and such encounters can also expose minorities to discrimination [13,37]. It is thus important to mitigate prejudice between racial/ethnic groups in non-residential places and stigmatization that may reinforce social isolation [40].…”

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Examining Ethnic Exposure through the Perspective of the Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem: A Case Study of Xining, China

Kwan

Chen

2020

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An increasing number of studies have observed that ignoring individual exposures to non-residential environments in people’s daily life may result in misleading findings in research on environmental exposure. This issue was recognized as the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP). This study examines ethnic segregation and exposure through the perspective of NEAP. Focusing on Xining, China, it compares the Hui ethnic minorities and the Han majorities. Using 2010 census data and activity diary data collected in 2013, the study found that NEAP exists when examining ethnic exposure. Respondents who live in highly mixed neighborhoods (with high exposures to the other ethnic group) experience lower activity-space exposures because they tend to conduct their daily activities in ethnically less mixed areas outside their home neighborhoods (which are more segregated). By contrast, respondents who live in highly segregated neighborhoods (with low exposures to the other ethnic group) tend to have higher exposures in their activity locations outside their home neighborhoods (which are less segregated). Therefore, taking into account individuals’ daily activities in non-residential contexts in the assessment of environmental exposure will likely lead to an overall tendency towards the mean exposure. Using Tobit models, we further found that specific types of activity places, especially workplaces and parks, contribute to NEAP. Ignoring individual exposures in people’s activity places will most likely result in misleading findings in the measurement of environmental exposure, including ethnic exposure.

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Examining Ethnic Exposure through the Perspective of the Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem: A Case Study of Xining, China

Kwan

Chen

2020

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“…They also observed the sentiment among native residents that migrants are ‘outsiders’ who are not equally entitled to the use of public spaces. In other words, a space of encounter can also remake and enact differences (Qian, 2018).…”

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Neighbourhood-scale public spaces, inter-group attitudes and migrant integration in Beijing, China

Liu

Chai

2019

Urban Studies

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Cities worldwide face the challenge of persistent social polarisation that is exacerbated by the mass migration of populations. Scholars have debated whether the planning of public spaces, which presumably fosters inter-group encounter, potentially reduces prejudice against minorities such as migrants, and eventually promotes social inclusiveness. This research uses a large-scale questionnaire survey conducted in 36 neighbourhoods (estates) in Beijing, China, combined with field observations and interviews, to investigate whether the presence, perception and use of neighbourhood-scale spaces of encounter are relevant in predicting residents’ attitudes towards migrant social inclusion, particularly with respect to equal access to citizenship and government welfare. Qualitative and quantitative analyses found that residents’ inclusiveness attitude is less associated with the physical presence of public spaces and facilities in the neighbourhood, and more with actually using such spaces for neighbourly encounters in daily life. The findings echo recent critiques of the romanticised view of public spaces for urban encounters, and suggest that neighbourhood planning of public spaces should incorporate elements from social projects that facilitate meaningful interaction between native and migrant residents to achieve the goal of building an inclusive city.

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“…Thinking more widely, digitally mediated forms of stranger intimacy or avoidance can be situated within a wider process of boundaryblurring in our contemporary moment taking place between conventional relations of public/private (Koch, 2020;Qian, 2018), and by association between relations such as formal/ informal work (Glucksmann, 2011;Wheeler and Glucksmann, 2014), between producers/ consumers (Bruns, 2010;Ritzler and Jurgenson, 2010) and in terms of social categories such as friend, guest, host or community member. Further, Cockayne et al (2017) have demonstrated that digital technology can also extend intimacy to the non-or more-thanhuman as people knowingly interact, for example, with robots and algorithms designed to simulate human dialogue in the pursuit of sexual pleasure and fantasy.…”

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Inviting the stranger in: Intimacy, digital technology and new geographies of encounter

Koch

Miles

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Digital technologies are profoundly reshaping how people relate to unknown others, yet urban studies and geographies of encounter have yet to adequately incorporate these changes into theory and research. Building on a longstanding concern with stranger encounters in social and urban theory, this paper explores how digital technology brings new possibilities and challenges to urban life. With examples ranging from GPS-enabled apps for sex and dating to sharing economy platforms that facilitate the peer-to-peer exchange of services, new practices mediated by digital technology are making many stranger encounters a matter of choice rather than chance, and they are often private as much as they are public. This paper examines these changes to develop a conceptualisation of stranger intimacy as a potentially generative form of encounter involving conditional relations of openness among the unacquainted, through which affective structures of knowing, providing, befriending or even loving are built. We offer an agenda for researching stranger intimacies to better understand their role in generating new kinds of social and economic opportunity, overcoming constraints of space and place, as well as generating dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, privilege and disadvantage. The paper concludes by considering what critical attention to these encounters can offer geographical scholarship and how an emphasis on digital mediation can push research in productive directions.

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Geographies of public space: Variegated publicness, variegated epistemologies

Cited by 43 publications

References 133 publications

Examining Ethnic Exposure through the Perspective of the Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem: A Case Study of Xining, China

Examining Ethnic Exposure through the Perspective of the Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem: A Case Study of Xining, China

Neighbourhood-scale public spaces, inter-group attitudes and migrant integration in Beijing, China

Inviting the stranger in: Intimacy, digital technology and new geographies of encounter

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