Ethnographies of place: a new urban research agenda

Mayne, Alan J.; Lawrence, Susan

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“…In this approach, which Lawrence and Mayne have called an ethnography of place, 47 description is not only an interpretive tool but a communicator. It is necessary to tell stories that are as engaging today as the slum myths that overwhelmed local knowledge of these places in the past.…”

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Inside Melbourne’s “Little Lon”

Mayne¹,

Murray²,

Lawrence³

2000

Urban History Review

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Comment peut-on tirer des informations des dialectes des communautés disparues lorsque le savoir local n’existe plus? Comment tracer les paysages mentaux à l’origine de lieux quand ceux-ci ont été ensevelis sous les connaissances d’autres personnes et lorsque leurs formes concrètes ont été effacées par le redéveloppement? Cet article intègre l’histoire et l’archéologie en abordant ces questions générales. Il utilise une étude de cas du dix-neuvième siècle afin de démontrer que l’on peut se réapproprier les conditions réelles d’un micro-environnement urbain – le quartier « Little Lon » de Melbourne – à partir des réalités déformantes issues de perceptions extérieures

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Inside Melbourne’s “Little Lon”

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Murray²,

Lawrence³

2000

Urban History Review

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“…Some of these are discussed elsewhere in this article. For a full report and catalogue see Richardson (2007 Establishing the relationship between the objects found in these privies and those people who lived in adjacent houses was initially a key concern for us, since, true to the ethnographic approach advocated by Mayne and Lawrence (1999), we were eager to contextualize the archaeological finds, building out from an understanding of the household within which they were used to investigate the wider meanings and functions of the objects and the nature of the locality from which they originated. However, after census returns, rate books and other sources that detail household occupancy were consulted, it was clear that we were dealing with a transient community.…”

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“…Almost two decades ago historian Alan Mayne and archaeologist Susan Lawrence published an essay in the journal Urban History announcing a Bnew urban research agenda^ (Mayne and Lawrence 1999). Drawing from their collaborative work on nineteenth-century Melbourne in Australia, they challenged scholars to develop Bethnographic^approaches to studying cities through the innovative bringing together of archaeological and other historical evidence in order to build a richer understanding the complexities of everyday urban life.…”

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People and Things on the Move: Domestic Material Culture, Poverty and Mobility in Victorian London

Owens

Jeffries

2016

Int J Histor Archaeol

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The development of what Mayne and Lawrence (Urban History 26: 325-48, 1999) termed Bethnographic^approaches to studying nineteenth-century households and urban communities has gathered momentum in recent years. As such research agendas have taken hold and been applied to new contexts, so critiques, methodological developments, and new intellectual and theoretical currents, have provided opportunities to enhance and develop approaches. This article contributes to this on-going process. Drawing upon household archaeological research on Limehouse, a poor neighborhood in Victorian London, and inspired by the theoretical insights provided by the Bnew mobilities paradigm,^it aims to place Bmobility^as a central and enabling intellectual framework for understanding the relationships between people, place, and poverty. Poor communities in nineteenth-century cities were undeniably mobile and transient. Historians and archaeologists have often regarded this mobility as an obstacle to studying everyday life in such contexts. However, examining temporal routines and geographical movements across a variety of time frames and geographical scales, this article argues that mobility is actually key to understanding urban life and an important mechanism for interpreting the fragmented material and documentary traces left by poor households in the nineteenth-century metropolis.

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“…We have also discussed how morality tales and cautionary tales are Some of the police stories we told each other were also stories (or more appropriately ethnographies) of place (Mayne & Lawrence, 1999) and thus we told each other stories of criminal places and infamous streets where serious and organized criminals lived and created criminal legend. Our tellings and retellings were attempts at narrating an ethnographic re-reading of place so that others would learn from our knowledge of the occupants and happenings in particular locations.…”

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Towards an Organizational Folklore of Policing: The Storied Nature of Policing and the Police Use of Storytelling

2014

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This is an author produced version of a paper published in Among police officers much of the working day consists of telling stories about every policing and events. Although the study of narrative and storytelling in organizational contexts is an expanding area of research the same cannot be said of the study of narrative and storytelling in a police context. As an area of study it remains under researched although not unexplored. Using the writings of management narrative theorists such as David Boje and Yiannis Gabriel as a starting point this paper considers policing organisations and agencies as storytelling organisations. To do so we conduct a literature review on the 'storied nature' of policing and of the police use of storytelling in an organisational context. Consequentially, this reflective paper contributes to the developing literature because it both reviews and maps the literature highlighting potential areas for future research.

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Ethnographies of place: a new urban research agenda

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

Inside Melbourne’s “Little Lon”

Inside Melbourne’s “Little Lon”

People and Things on the Move: Domestic Material Culture, Poverty and Mobility in Victorian London

Towards an Organizational Folklore of Policing: The Storied Nature of Policing and the Police Use of Storytelling

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