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Neal, Sarah, Bennett, Katy, Jones, Hannah, Cochrane, Allan and Mohan, Giles (2015) Multiculture and public parks : researching super-diversity and attachment in public green spaces. Population, Space and Place, 21 (5). pp. 463-475. doi:10.1002/psp.1910
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.1910
Abstract
Situating itself in encounter and public space debates and borrowing from non-representational theory approaches this paper uses data from the authors’ two-year ESRC research project to consider how local urban parks can work as sites of routine encounter, mixity and place belonging. The paper explores how parks as green public spaces are not only important as sites of inclusive openness but that the materiality of parks is a key dynamic in affective encounter processes. Parks can work as animators of social interactions, participatory practices and place affinities across ethnic and cultural difference. The paper concludes that the concept of convivial encounter can be extended to incorporate the concept of elective practices - choosing to be in shared public space can generate connective sensibilities which are not necessarily contingent on exchange. In using parks as a lens to examine localities and diversity the paper critically reflects on research practices for understanding and describing heterogeneous formations of multiculture and argues that the project’s research design and the fieldwork methods present an attempt to carefully and appropriately respond to research with complexly different places and populations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Multiculturalism, Public spaces, Urban parks | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Population, Space and Place | ||||||||
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1544-8444 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 463-475 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/psp.1910 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | ES/J007676/1 (ESRC) |
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