Ontological Security in a Post-Crash World—A Tale of Two Yorkshire Cities

Grenville, Jane

doi:10.1179/2159032x15z.00000000037

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“…The general context of citizens' basic source of faith in others has also changed from localised trust based on physically close social connections to trust relations vested in a dis-embedded, mobile, and abstract system. Giddens adopted the concept of "ontological security" to capture "the implicit faith actors have in the conventions (codes of signification and forms of normative regulation) via which, in the duality of structure, the reproduction of social life is effected" [26] (p. 291), which is primarily useful in exploring micro-level processes [27]. Theoretically, in the transition to a more modern society, the basis of people's ontological security has moved from locality to abstraction [19] (pp.…”

Section: Delocalised Urban China the Prosperity Of Mobilities And Cov...mentioning

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Location Is Back: The Influence of COVID-19 on Chinese Cities and Urban Governance

Tan

2022

Sustainability

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This article explores the short-term and (potential) long-term influences of COVID-19 on urban China and its governance, which was characterised by increasing mobilities and delocalised societies before the outbreak. Through the analysis of 18 observation reports in 16 cities, it is revealed that the outbreak enables the government to (re-)build a location-based urban management system with the participation of residents facing the pandemic as an external threat. A paradoxical combination of low physical mobility and high information mobility occurs. The location-based lifestyle and governance pattern has been “normalised” rather than just being a temporary response to the pandemic. The re-localisation in urban China differs from the localism in western societies as it results from the combination of the state-power-based governmental action and citizens’ participation aimed at regaining location-based ontological security. The normalisation of the re-localisation tendency may bring about fundamental changes to urban China, even “after” the pandemic.

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Section: Delocalised Urban China the Prosperity Of Mobilities And Cov...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Location Is Back: The Influence of COVID-19 on Chinese Cities and Urban Governance

Tan

2022

Sustainability

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“…Other ontological security scholars across disciplines paid particular attention to home, as a secure and predictable space where individuals routinize their everyday relationships with their significant others (Dupuis and Thorns, 1998;Hiscock et al, 2001;Newton, 2008;Padgett, 2007;Skey, 2011). Taking the concept to urban conservation, Jane Grenville, for example, showed how cities draw their sense of ontological security from their built environment (Grenville, 2007(Grenville, , 2015.…”

Section: Ontological Security Studies and Materialitymentioning

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Abjection, materiality and ontological security: A study of the unfinished Church of Christ the Saviour in Pristina

Ejdus¹

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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Ontological security scholarship in International Relations (IR) has predominantly focused on the importance of social environments for the healthy sense of self. However, material environments can also provide an important source of ontological security. In my previous work I have argued that to assume this role of ‘ontic spaces’ material environments need to be discursively linked to states’ self-identity either through projection or introjection. In this article, I draw on the work of Julia Kristeva to argue that ontic spaces can also come about through abjection or the rejection of a material environment from the narrative of the self. I illustrate this theoretical point in the case study of the Serbian Orthodox Church of Christ the Saviour in Pristina. Its construction began in 1992 during the rule of Slobodan Milošević but was never finished due to the Kosovo war in 1998/9. Over the years, as all proposed changes are considered to be a threat to a healthy sense of self of either Serbs or Albanians, the building has been turned into an abjected ontic space, an ambiguous symbol undermining the self/other and victim/oppressor boundaries and as such both repels and attracts, threatens and protects.

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“…Jane Grenville, who translated the ontological security argument into the field of urban conservation, compared how different cities and communities cope with conservation and urban development (Grenville 2015;2007). Her findings suggest that, in the aftermath of political turmoil, ontological anxieties may result in the desire either to completely change one's environment or to retain it unaltered 'as a bulwark against a transient and untrustworthy external world' (Grenville 2007, 451).…”

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‘Not a heap of stones’: material environments and ontological security in international relations

Ejdus

2017

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Ontological Security in a Post-Crash World—A Tale of Two Yorkshire Cities

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Location Is Back: The Influence of COVID-19 on Chinese Cities and Urban Governance

Location Is Back: The Influence of COVID-19 on Chinese Cities and Urban Governance

Abjection, materiality and ontological security: A study of the unfinished Church of Christ the Saviour in Pristina

‘Not a heap of stones’: material environments and ontological security in international relations

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