Street children's lives and actor-networks

Gadd, Katri

doi:10.1080/14733285.2015.1040727

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“…). This includes the use of ‘walkabout’ methodologies, for example in Katri Gadd's () work on street children in Pelotas, Brazil, which draws on actor‐network theory (Latour ) and time geography (Hägerstrand ) to understand the encounters, spaces and networks through which street children, over a seven‐year period, differently navigated the challenges and possibilities of urban life. Gough and Langevang () draw attention to the ‘tactics of social navigation’ for youth in a suburb in Accra, prompting researchers to consider how mobility can be brought explicitly to the fore of methodological considerations (and see Jones and Evans ).…”

Section: Navigating the City: The Project And The Residentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating the city: dialectics of everyday urbanism

McFarlane

Silver

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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How might we conceptualise and research everyday urbanism? By examining the making of everyday life in a low‐income neighbourhood in Uganda, we argue that a dialectics of everyday urbanism is a useful approach for understanding urban poverty. This dialectical approach examines how marginalised urban dwellers navigate the city in the relative absence of formal infrastructure systems, service provision and state welfare, and in turn exceed those limitations through forging connections, capacities and opportunities. We reveal the ‘social infrastructures’ that people put together to sustain life, as well as the limits of and placed on these infrastructures, from the legacies of structural adjustment to ongoing forms of demolition and disinvestment. We identify a set of practices that operate alongside social infrastructure – ‘coordination’, ‘consolidation’ and ‘speculation’ – important in the composition of everyday urban life. In doing so, we reflect on how we might research the dialectics of everyday urbanism, and here a ‘follow‐along participant observation’ (FAPO) methodology has significant potential. Our arguments emerge from research with residents in Kampala, but open out questions for how we conceive and research everyday life and urban infrastructure more generally.

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Section: Navigating the City: The Project And The Residentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating the city: dialectics of everyday urbanism

McFarlane

Silver

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

137

104

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“…More precisely, capacity is conceptualized by Ferdman [ 17 ] as a potential that manifests itself in things that are intrinsically valuable and therefore objectively good, thus resembling Nussbaum’s definition of fundamental capabilities [ 28 ]. On the other hand, Gadd [ 42 ] defines capacity as a quality of an actor, thus referring either to a potential of a material element or to capabilities of individuals. Lastly, capabilities, are defined by Blecic et al [ 4 ] and Annunziata et al [ 43 ] as valuable states of being that a person has effective access to, thus resembling Sen’s original definition.…”

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A Literature Review on Walkability and its Theoretical Framework. Emerging Perspectives for Research Developments

Annunziata

Garau

2020

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020

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Urbanization identifies the contemporary city as the crucible of human condition. This tendency elicits the issue of the ways in which the built environment affects human behaviour. In particular, walking emerges as a central topic. Walking, in fact, is conceptualized as a vector for engaging with the world, and as a conduit to physical activity, social contact and optional practices. Consequently, a vast body of literature exists, related to the concept of walkability. The latter can be defined as the built environment potential to affect people’s propensity to walk to different destinations and for different purposes. This study, through a comprehensive literature review investigates four concepts: capability; affordance; configuration and Urban ethics. These concepts embody four central dimensions of the research on walkability: arguments for investigating walkability; conceptualization of person-environment transactions; methodologies and ethical implications. The aim of this study, thus, is to individuate the theoretical framework for a precise understanding of the impact of the built environment on human behaviour and to underline perspectives for the further development of the research on walkability.

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“…To identify and engage with a complete set of relevant elements is impossible, as developed by many new materialist researchers and scholars using non-representational theories (see Ruming 2009). Thus, I concentrated on the most important elements for the research participants and the interlinkages among them (see Murdoch 1997;Ruming 2009;Gadd 2016b). The most essential, the most important linkages (revealed by the research participants) are called first-order approximations (Murdoch 1997), which often become visible through the everyday activities of the person.…”

Section: Time-geography In a Study Of Irregular Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%