Senses of place in flux: a generational approach

Hammad, Suzanne H

doi:10.1108/01443331111164142

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“…Nevertheless, the connection to Yaffa – a place which their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents identify as home – was a part of their Palestinian identity. This notion of belonging to and being dislocated from place, which passes between generations, echoes previous literature on Palestinian family practices (Hammad, 2011; Hart, 2002; Peteet, 2005).…”

Section: Frustration Hope and Nation Under Occupationsupporting

confidence: 83%

Trees, flowers, prisons, flags: Frustration and hope shaping national identity for Palestinian families

Akesson

2015

Global Studies of Childhood

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The Israeli occupation has shaped the lives of Palestinian families for generations. Under occupation, Palestinian children continue to craft identities connected to place, specifically in their relationship with Palestine as a nation-state. Drawing from a qualitative research project using the concept of place as a lens through which to view children's negotiations with their environments, this article examines how Palestinian identity is related to marginalization and dislocation from place as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation. A total of 18 interviews were conducted with Palestinian children and their families living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The research used a placebased methodology including collaborative family interviews, mapmaking, and drawing. The data generally reinforced the view that a history of dislocation and marginalization from place due to the longstanding occupation contributes to emotions of frustration and hope, which in turn play a significant role in the national imaginary of families and children and ultimately shape Palestinian national identity or being Palestinian.

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Section: Frustration Hope and Nation Under Occupationsupporting

confidence: 83%

Trees, flowers, prisons, flags: Frustration and hope shaping national identity for Palestinian families

Akesson

2015

Global Studies of Childhood

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“…More importantly, numerous studies noted that individuals in different generational cohorts perceived their home place differently and started to employ a generational apporach to examine subsequent generations of migrants and their sense of place (Hammad, ; Liu, ; Moskal, ; Waite & Cook, ). For instance, the second‐generation migrants were believed to have weaker ethnic and religious attachment to ancestral home, and as a result, they were less engaged in ethno‐cultural and religious practices compared to their parents (Levitt & Waters, ; Maliepaard et al, ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Connotations of ancestral home: An exploration of place attachment by multiple generations of Chinese diaspora

Chan

2018

Population Space and Place

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This paper explores the connotations of ancestral home by investigating how multiple generations of Chinese migrants sustain their place attachment to China. Based on 50 in‐depth interviews with Chinese migrants from the first to the sixth generation, we unpacked the meanings of ancestral home from the “place,” “person,” and “process” dimensions and identified 3 types of connections: personally attached to ancestral home, cognitively connected to a generic China and the Chinese culture, and spiritually connected to a symbolic China. Factors were identified in each type of place attachment in illustrating how Chinese diaspora members sustain their ancestral home connections. The personally attached group ground their attachment in strongly valued personal involvement with the physical and social ties. They are more sensitive to migration background, social relationships, and home return mobility. The cognitively connected group, in contrast, is more aware of the influence of their own families and the Chinese communities and embed their connections in understandings, knowledge, and Chinese cultural practices. The spiritually connected group maintain their connection through collective memories, sense of pride and appreciation for family ancestry, and interests in personal past. The findings suggest that the meanings of ancestral home are diverse and dynamic, reflecting both individual and family's migration history, personal experiences, cultural exposures, social relationships, and mobility. This study offers empirical insights into diaspora members' experiences of engaging with their place of origin and contributes to the understanding of place attachment by integrating a generational view.

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“…Methodologically, Hammad (2011) is the one of the few scholars to refer to walk-a-longs in connection to intergenerational research. She studied the experiences of home and place that different generations hold in a divided village in Palestine.…”

Section: Walking As Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researching transgenerationally produces distinctive insights into social experiences and relations over time (Thomson, 2014). However, there is a clear deficiency in research when it comes to the experiencing of place by different generations (Hammad, 2011). This article suggests a methodological approach that acknowledges the significance of the generational production of socio-spatial relations; a methodology for the production of knowledge across and within generations that is ‘in place’ (Murray, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Walking as transgenerational methodology

Murray¹,

Järviluoma

2019

Qualitative Research

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The embodied practice of walking is said to make the city a cinematic experience that carves a path through to be read in multiple ways by future mobile bodies. De Certeau’s (1984) undifferentiated practitioner has been critiqued, with, in particular, alternative gendered accounts of the mobile body (Grosz, 1998; Collie, 2013). This research note seeks to add to such accounts through exploring the walking body that is differentiated according to generation and then through suggesting a transgenerational walking methodology. The article articulates a methodological approach developed as part of a European Research Council funded project on transgenerational cultural transformations of the sensory between 1950 and 2020. Through a series of transgenerational sensory walks – a younger person (sometimes a child) and an older person – the project examines changes in and multisensory engagements with local environments in three national contexts: Turku (Finland), Brighton (UK), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). This paper introduces the project and considers the role of generation in determining mobile space, and hence determines a rationale for a transgenerational methodological approach intersecting several disciplines. We ask the following questions: how are the bodies of different generations written in mobile space? and how does ethnographic sensory walking with different generations offer particular understandings of mobile space?

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Senses of place in flux: a generational approach

Cited by 27 publications

References 24 publications

Trees, flowers, prisons, flags: Frustration and hope shaping national identity for Palestinian families

Trees, flowers, prisons, flags: Frustration and hope shaping national identity for Palestinian families

Connotations of ancestral home: An exploration of place attachment by multiple generations of Chinese diaspora

Walking as transgenerational methodology

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