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Particular Places (particular + place)
Selected Abstracts,Where are you from?': Identifying place1JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 3 2006Greg Myers Many social research projects, such as interviews, focus groups, and surveys, take local place as a given: they choose participants from a particular place, take this place as background for what the participants say, ask them about place-related issues, and correlate responses with different places. But people can identify places in different ways, in geographical or relational terms, and in different levels of scale. This study analyses passages in focus groups in which participants say where they are from, shows that participants generally take the question and answer as routine, and then shows the ways the interaction develops when this routineness is broken, amended, or called into question. When a participant revises their statement of where they are from, they adapt to what they see as the knowledge and stance of their interlocutor, they re-present themselves, and they create possibilities for further talk, defending, telling stories, or showing entitlement to an opinion. I argue that the ways people answer this question, interactively, can tell us about them, and us, as well as about their map of the world. [source] Indigeneity across borders: Hemispheric migrations and cosmopolitan encountersAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2010ROBIN MARIA DELUGAN ABSTRACT The increasing migration of indigenous people from Latin America to the United States signals a new horizon for the study of indigeneity,complexly understood as subjectivities, knowledge, and practices of the earliest human inhabitants of a particular place and including legal and racial identities that refer to these people. Focusing on indigenous migration to San Francisco, California, I explore how government, service providers, and community organizations respond to the arrival of new ethnic groups while also contributing to an expanding Urban Indian collective identity. In addition to reviewing such governmental practices as the creation of new census categories and related responses to indigenous ethnic diversity, I illustrate how some members of a diverse Urban Indian population unite through participation in rituals such as the Maya Waqxaqi' B'atz' (Day of Human Perfection), transplanted to San Francisco from Guatemala. The rituals recall homelands near and far in a broader social imagination about being and belonging in the world. The social imagination, borne in part through migration and diaspora, acknowledges the local and the particular in a framework of shared values about what it means to be human. I analyze this meaning making as cosmopolitanism in practice. By merging indigeneity and cosmopolitanism, I join other scholars who strive to decenter classical notions of cosmopolitan "worldliness," drawing attention to alternative sources of beneficent sociality and for cultivating humanity. [source] History and culture in a provincial centre: a universal chronicle from Renaissance RiminiRENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 2 2005Daniel Bornstein The Cronaca universale of Gaspare Broglio is well known to local historians, who have long used it as a precious source of information about the Malatesta of Rimini and their political adventures. This essay reads it instead for clues to the cultural formation and intellectual interests of its author. In what he read and what he chose to include in his chronicle, this Sienese-born chronicler in the service of a lord of the Romagna displayed an eclectic interest in both classical and chivalric subjects, interests that he shared with his Malatesta masters and the Po valley nobility to which they belonged. Broglio's cultural formation and tastes were broadly characteristic of a class, not narrowly typical of a locale. Like others of his class, Broglio circulated widely in the service of a variety of masters. This circulation loosened any attachment he, and others of his class, might have had to a particular place, while fostering a sense of belonging to a supra-local cadre of people of similar background, experience, duties, and skills. Thus, his training and outlook may fairly be taken as typical of an entire group of people: that cadre of moderately well-educated members of the lesser nobility who served the princes of Italy in military, diplomatic, and administrative capacities and whose most distinguished representative, born right about the time Broglio left off writing his chronicle, was Baldassare Castiglione. [source] Conditional Belonging: Farm Workers and the Cultural Politics of Recognition in ZimbabweDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 1 2008Blair Rutherford ABSTRACT This article examines Zimbabwean land politics and the study of rural interventions, including agrarian reform, more broadly, using the analytical framework of territorialized ,modes of belonging' and their ,cultural politics of recognition'. Modes of belonging are the routinized discourses, social practices and institutional arrangements through which people make claims for resources and rights, the ways through which they become ,incorporated' in particular places. In these spatialized forms of power and authority, particular cultural politics of recognition operate; these are the cultural styles of interaction that become privileged as proper forms of decorum and morality informing dependencies and interdependencies. The author traces a hegemonic mode of belonging identified as ,domestic government', put in place on European farms in Zimbabwe's colonial period, and shows how it was shaped by particular political and economic conjunctures in the first twenty years of Independence after 1980. Domestic government provided a conditional belonging for farm workers in terms of claims to limited resources on commercial farms while positioning them in a way that made them marginal citizens in the nation at large. This is the context for the behaviour of land-giving authorities which have actively discriminated against farm workers during the politicized and violent land redistribution processes that began in 2000. Most former farm workers are now seeking other forms of dependencies, typically more precarious and generating fewer resources and services than they had accessed on commercial farms, with their own particular cultural politics of recognition, often tied to demonstrating support to the ruling political party. [source] Tensions between Scottish National Policies for onshore wind energy and local dissatisfaction , insights from regulation theoryENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND GOVERNANCE, Issue 5 2007Karen Parkhill Abstract Although best described as a ,meta' theory addressing the endurance of capitalism, regulation theory can successfully be used to explore not only the economic dimensions, but also the political, socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of particular developmental strategies. Thus, it offers a framework for embedding abstract debates about social attitudes to new technologies within debates about ,real regulation' , the economic, social and cultural relationships operating through particular places. This paper uses regulation theory and qualitative, interview-based data to analyse Scotland's drive for onshore wind energy. This approach teases out how responses to wind farms are bound up with wider debates about how rural spaces are, and should be, regulated; the tensions within and between national political objectives, local political objectives and local communities' dissatisfaction; and the connections between local actors and more formal dimensions of renewable energy policy. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source] The U.S. Destinations of Contemporary Mexican Immigrants1INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Issue 4 2008Eileen Diaz McConnell Although U.S. Latinos continue to be concentrated in particular places, many have shifted to "new" locations around the country. This study employs data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP107) to examine the relationship between individual-level characteristics and diverse U.S. destinations chosen by post-1965 Mexican immigrants. Multinomial logistic regression analyses confirm the importance of human capital, social networks, and temporal context in directing immigrants to particular U.S. sites. The findings also suggest that employing a typology of U.S. destinations is useful for understanding the spatial distributions of contemporary Mexican immigrants. [source] Rethinking Indigenous Place: Igorot Identity and Locality in the PhilippinesTHE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 3 2006Deirdre McKay Spanish and American colonisers ascribed the identity ,Igorot' to the peoples of the northern Philippine mountains, positioning them in the ,tribal slot', somewhere between ordinary peasants and ,backward' primitives. From this marginal position, contemporary Igorot communities have been comparatively successful in formalising their entitlements to land and resources in their dealings with the Philippine State. This success depends on a discourse tying indigenous or ,tribal' culture to particular places. Colonial and, now, local anthropology has been recruited to this process through the mapping of community boundaries. This has allowed groups to secure official status as ,cultural communities' and gain legal recognition of their ancestral domains. Ironically, even as ancestral domains are recognised, the municipalities that hold such domains have ceased to be bounded containers for Igorot localities, if they ever were. Participation in global indigenous networks, circular migration, and ongoing relations with emigrants overseas blur the spatial, temporal, and social boundaries of Igorot communities. Transnational flows of people, information, and value are recruited to support the essentialised versions of indigenous identity necessary for negotiations with the state. Here, I show how the specific history of the Igorot ,tribal slot' enables communities to perform essentialised indigeneity and simultaneously enact highly translocal modes of cultural reproduction. [source] The boundaries of property: lessons from Beatrix PotterTHE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER/LE GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN, Issue 2 2004Nicholas Blomley Beatrix Potter's classic children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, offers an example of a well-entrenched view of property and its geographies. Drawing on this, and current scholarship on law and geography, I explore the ways in which the spatial boundaries of property are formally conceived. I then compare this model with the findings of a qualitative research project on people's everyday practices and understandings of their garden boundaries in inner city Vancouver. While this provides partial support for the formal model, I find more pervasive evidence for a very different view of the boundaries of property. While the dominant account assumes a determinate, individualistic and ordered view of the boundary, my findings suggest a more relational, porous and ambiguous alternative. The gap, however, proves instructive. In conclusion, therefore, I return to law and geography to reflect on the importance of thinking through the ways legal forms, such as property, are materially and spatially enacted within particular places. Finally, the study alerts us to the multivalent political possibilities of property. While property can, indeed, be individualistic and reified, it also contains more collective and fluid meanings. Le livre classique d'enfants, Pierre Lapin, par Beatrix Potter, donne un exemple d'une opinion bien implantée de la propriété et de ses géographies. En tirant de ce sujet, et de l'érudition récente de la loi et de la géographie, j'examine les façons dans lesquelles les frontières spatiales d'une propriété sont conçues officiellement. Ensuite, je met en parallèle ce modèle avec les résultats d'un projet de recherche qualitatif qui explique les habitudes quotidiennes des personnes et les compréhensions des frontières de leurs jardins dans les quartiers déshérités du Vancouver. Pendant que ce projet donne du soutien partiel pour l'ancien modèle, je trouve de l'évidence qui se fait sentir un peu partout pour une opinion très différente au sujet des frontières des propriétés. Tandis que l'explication principale admette une vue au sujet de la frontière qui est déterminante, individualiste et hiérarchisé, mes résultats proposent une alternative plus relationelle, plus perméable, et ambiguë. La lacune, cependant, démontre d'être éducative. En conclusion, donc, je retourne à la loi et à la géographie pour réfléchir sur l'importance de penser comment les formes légales, comme la propriété, sont promulgués d'une façon matérielle et spatialle dans les endroits particuliers. Finalement, cette étude nous avertit aux possibilités politiques et polyvalentes de la propriété. Lorsque la propriété peut, bien sûr, être individualiste et bien fondé, elle peut contenir des significations plus collectives et fluides. [source] RISING FOOD PRICES, SOCIAL MOBILIZATIONS, AND VIOLENCE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO THE CONNECTIONS LINKING HUNGER AND CONFLICTANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2009Ellen Messer In 2008, the world confronted food-insecurity situations that provoked political demonstrations in more than 50 countries. The alleged sources were production failures and spiking food prices because of bad weather and flawed food and development policies. But additional contributors were the legacies of food wars, armed conflicts in which one or both sides use food (or hunger) as a weapon and in which hunger persists as a consequence of conflict and its attendant social-economic disruptions. This article argues that UN and NGO international and national agencies responding to food insecurity challenges in particular places must consider food-and-conflict scenarios, and adopt conflict-concerned strategies, which are sensitive to the ways in which past foodwars have stymied increases in agricultural production, marketing, and livelihood diversification. Policy makers should also be attentive to political-geographic-ethnic-religious (PGER) divisions that can skew government distributions and access to aid and potentiate additional conflict. [source] Marginalization, Facilitation, and the Production of Unequal Risk: The 2006,Paso del Norte,FloodsANTIPODE, Issue 2 2010Timothy W. Collins Abstract:, Drawing upon insights from the field of urban political ecology, this article extends the critical hazards concept of,marginalization,by incorporating a relational focus on,facilitation. Facilitation connotes the institutionally mediated process that enables powerful geographical groups of people to minimize negative environmental externalities and appropriate positive environmental externalities in particular places, with unjust socioenvironmental consequences. The article demonstrates the utility of a marginalization/facilitation frame for understanding the production of unequal risk based on a case study of the 2006 El Paso (USA)-Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) flood disaster. The case study reveals how uneven developments have produced complex sociospatial patterns of exposure to flood hazards and how processes of facilitation and marginalization have created socially disparate flood-prone landscapes characterized by unequal risks. The paper concludes by outlining how the frame presented helps clarify understanding of the production of unequal risk. [source] The "Moral Hazards" of Microfinance: Restructuring Rural Credit in IndiaANTIPODE, Issue 1 2010Stephen Young Abstract:, This paper explores how economic ideas are produced, how they travel, and how they are contested, in complex and contingent ways, in particular places. It stems from events that took place in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, where I conducted fieldwork on microfinance programs during 2007. I begin by tracing how the practices of microfinance,and the ideas and rationalities underpinning them,have been increasingly globalized as a development tool since the 1970s. I then move on to describe the proliferation of various microfinance programs across Andhra Pradesh over the last decade. In the closing section, I consider the implications of a recent protest that took place against commercial microfinance institutions in the region. [source] | ||||||||||