Whose place?: emplaced narratives and the politics of belonging in East Jerusalem's contested neighbourhood of Silwan

Strömbom, Lisa; Johanna, Mannergren Selimovic

doi:10.1080/13562576.2015.1047577

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“…As Ye (2019) has shown with reference to Southeast Asian case studies, not length of residence but ‘transcient encounters’ or ‘short-lived encounters with strangers’ (p. 484) may make a diversity ‘breathable’ and practical neighbourhood use may remain by and large instrumental (p. 485; also Ye, 2016). Belonging has been discussed as politics (Crowley, 1999; Lovell, 1999; Yuval-Davis, 2006) and power relations rise from belonging, so neighbourhoods may become battlefields of meanings (Mannergren Selimovic and Strömbom, 2015). For example, Dirksmeier and Helbrecht (2015: 488) argued that encounters between strangers include ‘micro-mechanisms’ of negotiating status, so that encounters always include power.…”

Section: Belonging and Length Of Residence: An Overviewmentioning

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Roots and routes in neighbourhoods. Length of residence, belonging and public familiarity in Berlin, Germany

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Urban scholars commonly expect that residents show more neighbourhood belonging, the longer they live in an area. An imagery of fixed settlements thus remains dominant in a rapidly changing world. Recent research challenged classic assumptions but the alternative of elective belonging hardly differentiated between symbolic and practical neighbourhood use. As belonging is performatively maintained, this differentiation may be needed. What defines residents’ belonging in a neighbourhood in digital mobile times? Does length of residence alone result in place-based practices, familiarity with other people and ultimately in more belonging? Our analyses of survey-data from four Berlin neighbourhoods show that length of residence correlates with belonging, but not in a simple linear way. The use of infrastructure and especially public familiarity, which depends on the settlement as specific historical configuration, affect this relationship.

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Section: Belonging and Length Of Residence: An Overviewmentioning

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“…Like other emplaced narratives, local history events provide stories about who “we” are, in the sense of a local collective, connecting histories and identities to a particular place in the present, and in the process, shaping possibilities of who a community can be in the future (Baquedano-López, 1997; Sarmento, 2009; O’Brien, 2010). While others have considered “emplaced narratives” as means to examine settler societies (Mannergren Selimovic & Strömbom, 2015), they have done so with aims of inclusion, what Jodi Byrd (2011) critiques as “liberal multicultural settler colonialism” (p. xvii). Liberal multicultural settler colonial projects ignore the violence of settlement: they equalize “conflicts” and “claims” with “both sides” approaches and call for inclusion within the hierarchies of settler colonial societies.…”

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Centering Place in Ethnographies of “Latinx” Schooling: The Utility of a Multi-Sited Place Project for Revealing Emplaced Narratives

Stone

2022

International Review of Qualitative Research

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This paper argues for a methodological approach, a multi-sited place project, to center place within ethnographies of schooling and facilitate deeper understandings of socialization into settler relations stemming from and supporting the white settler nation-state. This approach draws upon language socialization and critical place inquiry, tracing settler colonial narratives between schools and local history sites such as California missions, historic city walking tours, and township festivals. The multi-sited place project reveals emplaced narratives, stories that socialize people to particular relations and logics to and within specific places, connecting histories and identities to a particular place in the present, and in the process, shaping possibilities of who people can be in the future. Compelling this approach is a desire for greater understandings of incompatibilities within racialized peoples’ work towards liberation on Indigenous lands that are not our own. Its purpose is to bring together approaches for studies of schooling and place in ways that challenge rather than accept settler futures. A multi-sited place project carried out on unceded Ohlone territory illustrates the approach, advancing understandings of how “Latinx” youth and families, primarily of Mexican origin, were socialized into Californian settler histories and identities via a family day at a historic rancho.

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“…Narratives are ‘conscious and structured accounts of events across time’ (Gardner, 2002: 2). People construct narratives to ‘make sense of reality’ and form the meaning of their self-identity and experiences, including of security and insecurity (Mannergren Selimovic and Strombom, 2015: 193; Kinnvall, 2017). Narratives also tell us how that construction structures their relationships, attitudes, behaviours and routines (Andrews et al, 2008).…”

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Displaced security? The relationships, routines and rhythms of peacebuilding interveners

Wallis¹

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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This article considers what treating individual international interveners engaged in peacebuilding work as referent objects can tell us about emplaced security. This is important because individual interveners are diverse, embodied agents who can impact the agency, peace and security of conflict-affected populations. It argues that applying an ontological security lens can provide a partial explanation for why interveners develop narratives and perform practices, including why they sometimes identify and behave in counterproductive, and even damaging, ways. The final section considers why an analytical focus on place is valuable, noting that place-based experiences and place-identities are formative of ontological security. It argues that treating interveners as a referent object provides opportunities to rethink the tendency to focus on home as the key site of emplacement in the ontological security literature. Building on this, it argues that examining the emplaced security of interveners invites us to examine the political nature and consequences of interveners’ physical and ontological security-seeking narratives and practices, including their creation of the material and ideational structures of intervention spaces and places.

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Whose place?: emplaced narratives and the politics of belonging in East Jerusalem's contested neighbourhood of Silwan

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Roots and routes in neighbourhoods. Length of residence, belonging and public familiarity in Berlin, Germany

Roots and routes in neighbourhoods. Length of residence, belonging and public familiarity in Berlin, Germany

Centering Place in Ethnographies of “Latinx” Schooling: The Utility of a Multi-Sited Place Project for Revealing Emplaced Narratives

Displaced security? The relationships, routines and rhythms of peacebuilding interveners

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