Belonging: Towards a Theory of Identification with Place

Leach, Neil

doi:10.2307/1567305

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“…Performativity as a replication and repetition of certain performances, which are associated with ritualistic practices with which communities colonize various territories. These performances are in fact the realization of the right to use in certain spaces and through them a certain attachment and belonging to place is developed (Leach, 2002).…”

Section: Everyday Belonging and Gendered Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Right to the Gendered City: Different Formations of Belonging in Everyday Life

Fenster¹

2005

Journal of Gender Studies

287

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss new forms of citizenship in globalized cities from a gendered and feminist perspective and to connect them to women's everyday life and to cities' planning and governance. In doing so, I challenge the Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city using a gendered and feminist critique by arguing that the identification of the right to the city lacks sufficient attention to patriarchal power relations which are ethnic, cultural and gender-related and as such it doesn't produce a practical standpoint. I will develop this critique by looking at women's everyday experiences and their reflections regarding their sense of comfort, belonging and commitment to the city they live in.

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Section: Everyday Belonging and Gendered Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Right to the Gendered City: Different Formations of Belonging in Everyday Life

Fenster¹

2005

Journal of Gender Studies

287

144

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“…History made present through inalienable objects and places bestows knowledge o f who one is on these people, who can connect with past selves recognised in familiar places (Leach, 2002). This is always a negotiable and possibly exclusionary process (Blokland, 2001;Jones, 2010, page 199); what counts as an inalienable relationship may not be straightforward.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This is always a negotiable and possibly exclusionary process (Blokland, 2001;Jones, 2010, page 199); what counts as an inalienable relationship may not be straightforward. Inalienable relationships are formed through repetitive activity over time (Gray, 1999;Leach, 2002), so that belonging as a way o f being-in-the-world is part o f the mundane nature o f everyday life. The presence o f the past in daily life is often overlooked, sometimes made visible only through certain reminders-in this case, talking about the photographs taken as part o f this research process (Kuhn, 2000, page 183).…”

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Gifted Places: The Inalienable Nature of Belonging in Place

Bennett

2014

Environ Plan D

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This paper focuses on the importance of historic, social, and material connections in belonging to place. Mauss's anthropological concept of a 'gift' is deployed to understand how places are cared for by a community over time. The development of tangible and intangible connections between past, present, and future people and places is explored. On the basis of in-depth, qualitative research with a group of people who have long-standing connections to their local place, memories and life-narratives are unravelled to explore the social and material relationships that place embodies. An understanding of place as an inalienable gift may create a moral duty to nurture and pass on places to subsequent generations. The research takes a phenomenological approach in order to illuminate the largely unconsidered associations between personal biographies and material places. After a brief discussion of the data collection methods used, notably photo diaries, some empirical examples are put forward to demonstrate how the research participants act as current custodians of places. The paper concludes by bringing together the different aspects of belonging in place illustrated by these vignettes and shows how they contribute to belonging in place as a moral way of being-in-the-world; that is, what I term 'an ontological belonging'.

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“…Space (the subjective livelihood of people) and place (the environmental surroundings) have a qualitatively distinguishable conceptual meaning. 22 Space can be a subjective construct that goes beyond its personalization, 22 but the meaning and usage of space can have a profound implication for disability and poverty indicators. It is within this thought and conceptualization that the social model of disability is to be re-evaluated.…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%