Doreen Massey

Rodgers, Jayne

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“…Perhaps most importantly, Massey makes clear that relational thinking is not simply about acknowledging that places are interconnected (see Painter, 2016), but more broadly about appreciating that places are differentially positioned in dynamically shifting relations that make up "the global", while they are also -to different extents and in different ways -the agents of globalizing processes themselves. Along with many others (e.g., Hubbard, 2008;Painter, 2016;Rodgers, 2004), we also found that Massey's relational notion of place has insightfully underlined that places are not to be assumed as unproblematic collectivities, but are always contested. Finally, we believed that Massey's accessible and appealing style, and her use of empirical examples and personal anecdotes (e.g., Hubbard, 2008;Sparke, 2007;cf.…”

Section: Stimulating What "Kind" Of Relational Thinking?supporting

confidence: 81%

Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments

Varró

Gorp

2020

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Research on the use(fulness) of student-led film has emphasized the benefits of combining fieldwork and the production of moving image in terms of active, deep and reflexive learning. This paper contributes to this literature by discussing how a video documentary assignment can (also) help fostering relational thinkinga main objective of human geography education. Inspired by Doreen Massey's notion of a "global sense of place", the assignment asks students to explore, in a neighbourhood of the Dutch city of Utrecht, how external influences and relations to other places have shaped the neighbourhood's development and identity. Based on the in-depth qualitative analysis of videos, students' logbooks and personal reflections from two cohorts, we argue that a film assignment can stimulate relational thinking, but there are some important caveats. The assignment needs to be embedded into a course where relational thinking explicitly figures as an overarching perspective. Furthermore, offering students supervised autonomy and continuous feedback, and the inclusion of follow-up reflection is key to making students critically engage with their own and others' "essentialist gaze". Finally, to help students exploit the added value of film in conveying a sense of relationality, sensitization to and training on aspects of cinematography is needed.

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Section: Stimulating What "Kind" Of Relational Thinking?supporting

confidence: 81%

Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments

Varró

Gorp

2020

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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“…The main objective of this hub is to create local collaborative communities that are bringing about social change. It constitutes a cross between an "incubator, a learning lab and a professional membership community" [27] (p. 23). The hub places strong emphasis on hosting a "collaborative community" of individuals who want to work on social enterprises.…”

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“…Conceptual frames are never neutral abstractions -they are deeply embedded in social and political structures. For authors like Rodgers [27], embracing the notion of multiplicity implies that there should not be a priory assignment of statuses and authorities, nor privileging certain stories over others. Through this, we can imagine a fuller recognition of the simultaneous coexistence of others, with their own trajectories and narratives, and thus understandings of the world.…”

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A Spatial Perspective of Innovation and Development: Innovation Hubs in Zambia and the UK

Jiménez

Zheng

2017

Information and Communication Technologies for Development

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The rapid expansion of hundreds of innovation hubs across Africa and Europe raises compelling questions about the relevance of this dynamic sector for development. To address this, our paper presents findings of how the social and economic context of hubs influences its members' construction of concepts of community, collaboration and development. The paper argues that what counts as innovation is often constructed in Western discourse and projected onto African realities. Doreen Massey's theory of space-making is used as a lens to analyse how different hubs produce distinct forms of collaboration and innovation for development. The aim of this paper is to explore alternative narratives of innovation hubs through a spatial perspective with the aim of revealing a multiplicity of forms for these hubs. It draws on findings from two innovation hubs in London and Lusaka respectively, using the methodology of multiple case studies. This article thus contributes firstly to the so far very limited empirical data on innovation hubs, and second, strengthens the theoretical framings of innovation for development which have so far emanated from a Western-centric empirical evidence base.

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“…While Massey refers to connectivity in a number of different senses (2005, pp. 181ff), it can be taken to include networked information and communications technologies, and the infrastructures that support them (see Rodgers 2004). It is in this context that we employ relational place as a productive concept for framing the ensuing examination of the increasingly crucial role that HSB infrastructure plays in mediating and shaping place-based experiences, interactions and interrelations (Massey 1992, p. 80), and in mediating and shaping the publics that form with, through and around these HSB-mediated experiences of place.…”

Section: Connectivity and Relational Placementioning

confidence: 99%

Making Publics, Making Places

Griffiths¹,

Barbour²

2016

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This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. This licence allows for the copying, distribution, display and performance of this work for non-commercial purposes providing the work is clearly attributed to the copyright holders. Address all inquiries to the Director at the above address. PrefaceThe impetus for Making Publics, Making Places was a desire to map the connections and disjunctions between scholarly approaches to understanding the making of publics and places. Primarily, the approaches in this collection represent the broad field of media scholarship complemented by perspectives from adjacent disciplines. The collection is exploratory, a boldly heterogeneous reaffirmation that places and publics continue to be the focus of investigations into cultural practices in a hypermediated era.In accounts of mediation and societal change, digital technologies are often framed as taking on an agency of their own. Nigel Thrift's (2014) editorial commentary for an issue of Environment and Planning A on data, space and place notes an important limitation in taking up either side of the Manichean divide on technological and human determinism. He argues that not only is technology 'more mundane than it is generally portrayed, it is part of people's practices and adapts to them'. Its impact is therefore more likely to result in a 'slow upheaval' of change made by mostly invisible technology infrastructure, rather than 'some kind of ecstatic change ' (p. 1264). Taking on Thrift's argument about the symbiotic nature of advances in technology and people's practices of use, our aim in the call for chapters was to invite contributors to help shape a collection illustrating the breadth and variety of approaches to understanding new media's generative power in everyday life.The volume thus attends to two specific areas of disruption and generative change which are often taken up separately, despite their intrinsically linked nature: understandings of publics, and understandings of place. Following Couldry's advice on the opening up of cultural theory, we aimed to include perspectives beyond those in our disciplinary location as new media researchers -perspectives with the potential to 'open up possible empirical work on culture ' (2000, p. 14). Couldry notes the benefits of stepping out of theoretical straightjackets, and refers to Stuart Hall's advice that 'the only theory worth having is the theory you have to fight off, not the one you speak with profound fluency ' ( in Couldry 2000. This advice was also persuasive in shaping the call. We invited contributions from any discipline that accounted for the contexts, moments and practices that shape places and publics in the digital age. Contributors responded creatively, by assessing the impact of ...

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Doreen Massey

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Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments

Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments

A Spatial Perspective of Innovation and Development: Innovation Hubs in Zambia and the UK

Making Publics, Making Places

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