Problems in Place: Using Discursive Social Psychology to Investigate the Meanings of Seasonal Homes

Patten, Susan R. Van; Williams, Daniel

doi:10.1080/01490400802353190

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“…Researchers studying discursive social psychology (e.g., Korobov & Bamberg, 2004;Van Patten & Williams, 2008) have questioned the idea that people unproblematically appropriate a distinct set of predefined meanings or discourses that essentially determine identity. Instead, these researchers argue that in an agentive sense people more strategically construct identities by appropriating and often mixing discourses.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our interviews and interpretations were not meant to be representative of all people who draw identity rich meanings in the ArapahoRoosevelt. Similar to Van Patten and Williams (2008), it "was not an effort to identify universal categories of meanings, but rather exemplars of the ways people interpret, explain, and account for their actions and evaluations" (p. 453). Our research illustrated a process that has not been addressed in the past.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Discursive social psychology (Korobov & Bamberg, 2004;Van Patten & Williams, 2008) provided the theoretical perspective we needed. Korobov and Bamberg (2004) argued that people do not absorb identity supportive meaning from discourses in a ready-made fashion.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Environmental psychology is dominated by quantitative studies that attempt to discover relationships between the objective, physical qualities of places and corresponding internal mental constructs (Van Patten & Williams, 2008). A principal issue is that such studies can neglect the social context in which perceptions, attitudes and relationships are elicited.…”

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‘Not in our front garden’: Land use conflict, spatial meaning and the politics of naming place

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Lewis

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2009

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Strategies aimed at reducing land use conflict often stress the need to make planning decisions more democratic. However, this goal is obstructed by overly-narrow conceptual perspectives that neglect the symbolic significance of place. We illustrate this by examining place names, which function as repositories of socio-political meaning. Drawing on elements of discursive and rhetorical psychology and subject positioning theory, we investigated the variety of meanings associated with place names in the context of a proposed housing development in Swindon, in the South of England. Thirty interviews with different stakeholders were conducted to gauge their opinions towards the proposal. Noting differences in the way the proposed site was named, we analysed the range of meanings associated with each name in relation to participants' stances towards development. Our results show how, in naming place, spatial meanings are negotiated and contested in ways that support contrasting political objectives. We conclude that planning professionals should exercise greater sensitivity towards existing spatial meanings, especially place names. In addition, socio-political understandings of subjective spatial relationships can serve as a basis for achieving more productive dialogue and improving development designs.

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“…Thus, places are not simply geographic locations with objective physical attributes, but have generally come to be understood in terms of three core elements: material form, location, and sense of place (Agnew 1987;Van Patten and Williams 2008). Sense of place, bounded by the material form and location of that place (Stedman 2003), is composed both of emotional reactions to a place and interpretations of that place.…”

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On the marketing implications of place narratives

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O’Malley

Patterson

2014

Journal of Marketing Management

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Acknowledging that 'locals' are recognised as an important (yet neglected) dimension of place marketing and following critiques of places as 'products', the purpose of this paper is to give voice to 'local people'. Drawing on local narratives of Santorini, Greece, we call attention to places as culturally significant and discursively produced and consumed. Local narratives provide multiple meanings constructed around the diverse and contested experiences of living and making a living in a place. Our analysis employs the metaphors of 'harsh beauty', 'service business' and 'home' to capture these perspectives. The paper has implications for the development of generative metaphors of 'place' and 'local' within place marketing and contributes to the dialogue over the continued relevance of our discipline to the public sphere. Summary statement of contributionThe paper contributes to a 'critical' place marketing agenda by capturing local narratives of place. The emergent themes reveal that 'local', far from a homogeneous category, involves multiple and contested meanings, as even within a single narrative the experience of place is built around varied readings of living, working, and consuming. The paper reveals that the production and consumption of place are dialectical rather than distinct processes and delineates implications for marketing.

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Problems in Place: Using Discursive Social Psychology to Investigate the Meanings of Seasonal Homes

Cited by 48 publications

References 47 publications

Wildland Fire and Organic Discourse: Negotiating Place and Leisure Identity in a Changing Wildland Urban Interface

Wildland Fire and Organic Discourse: Negotiating Place and Leisure Identity in a Changing Wildland Urban Interface

‘Not in our front garden’: Land use conflict, spatial meaning and the politics of naming place

On the marketing implications of place narratives

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