The City as Text: Constructing Dublin's Identity Through Discourse on Transportation and Urban Re-Development in the Press

Skillington, Tracey

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“…The international character of major cities lies not only in their telecommunication infrastructure and foreign rms: it lies also in the many different cultural environments in which these workers and others exist. This is one arena where we have seen the growth of an enormously rich scholarship (King 1990;Zukin 1991;Ruggiero and South 1997;Skillington 1998;Dawson l999;McDowell l997). Today's major cities are in part the spaces of post-colonialism and indeed contain conditions for the formation of a post-colonialist discourse.…”

Section: Globalization and Telecommunications: Impacts On The Future mentioning

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New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium

Sassen¹

2000

British Journal of Sociology

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The article examines some of the major challenges facing urban sociology at century's end given its traditions and lineages. These challenges arise out of the intersection of major macrosocial trends and their particular spatial patterns. The city and the metropolitan region emerge as one of the strategic sites where these macrosocial trends materialize and hence can be constituted as an object of study. Among these trends are globalization and the rise of the new information technologies, the intensifying of transnational and translocal dynamics, and the strengthening presence and voice of speci c types of socio-cultural diversity. Each one of these trends has its own speci c conditionalities, contents and consequences for cities, and for theory and research. Cities are also sites where each of these trends interacts with the others in distinct, often complex manners, in a way they do not in just about any other setting. The city emerges once again as a strategic lens for the study of major macrosocial transformations as it was in the origins of sociology. Can urban sociology address these challenges and in so doing once again produce some of the analytic tools for understanding the broader transformation?

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Section: Globalization and Telecommunications: Impacts On The Future mentioning

confidence: 99%

New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium

Sassen¹

2000

British Journal of Sociology

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“…The explanatory capacities of these approaches are still said to be limited. In previous frame analysis research (Skillington, 1997(Skillington, , 1998, I have also attempted to combine a framing approach (e.g. Snow et al, 1986 on frame bridging, frame transformation, frame extension), with elements of Fairclough's (1992Fairclough's ( , 1989) three-dimensional discourse analysis and Foucault's assessments of the impact of extra-discursive tendencies and power relations (Foucault, 1972).…”

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Where does the true value of a frame analysis approach lie? A Reply to van Dijk

Skillington

2023

Discourse Studies

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This paper addresses arguments raised by van Dijk in his critical appraisal of framing approaches to social movement research. In particular, the claim that frame analysis does not give sufficient attention to the intricate details of the interpretive process. In making this argument, van Dijk leans heavily on Goffman’s first category of frames (as individual acts of interpretation) at the expense of his second (relating more to inter-subjectively shared classes of schemata) used reflexively, for instance, by movements to embed a message of protest in wider value systems in the hope that it resonates sufficiently with the grounded experiences, grievances, beliefs, and cultural orientations of publics. This paper highlights how social movement frame research accounts for both categories of frames to illustrate how movements communicate across multiple levels of social interaction to maximize the societal impact of their message. When interpreted in these broader terms, the ‘how’ of interpretation, it will argue, is explained effectively by this research, contrary to van Dijk’s claim.

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“…In planning en beleid ontwikkelt zich, zoals we hieronder zien, een common sense over wat goed is voor een wijk. Een in potentie conflictueus proces van transformatie wordt aldus omgevormd tot een verhaal waarin de ideologische verantwoording naar de achtergrond verschuift (Skillington 1998).…”

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Harde stad, zachte stad

Reinders

2016

Architecture and the Built Environment

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There is something irrevocable in architecture. In contrast with a painting or a musical play, one cannot alter an architectural work of art other than by blowing it up or pulling it down. Streets, buildings, squares and parks are part of the hard, physical environment in which we organize our lives. But why conceptualize architecture as a finished product? What happens when the plans have been drawn, the buildings completed, the public space decorated and the pictures taken for design journals and marketing advertisements? How does the ‘hard’ city of architecture and urban planning relate to the ‘soft’ city of residents and users? How do people appropriate the planned city and make it their home? The thesis ‘Hard city, soft city’ is an anthropological study on the role of images and symbolic representations in the social production of urban space in Nieuwland, a post-war neighborhood of Schiedam, which is undergoing a process of large-scale restructuring. A central theme of the book is the intersection between planned and lived space. That is, between the city as object of planning and policy and as an object of everyday identity formation. The architecture and urban structure of post-war neighborhoods have been subject of numerous publications, but it is striking how little we know about everyday life that has unfolded in the years after completion. The book sets out to approach urban space not only from a physical and architectural point of view, but also as a social and cultural domain which is claimed by various groups and institutions. This is examined through the images, symbols and stories used by professionals and residents to give form, meaning and substance to urban space, such as in branding and narrative cartography. Using the philosophical work of Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre, the book examines how an anthropology of urban space contributes to our knowledge on the city, as a political object of policy, architecture and planning and as an everyday living environment.

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The City as Text: Constructing Dublin's Identity Through Discourse on Transportation and Urban Re-Development in the Press

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium

New frontiers facing urban sociology at the Millennium

Where does the true value of a frame analysis approach lie? A Reply to van Dijk

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