The Orange Order: Parades, other Rituals, and Their Outcomes

Edwards, Jennifer; Knottnerus, I. J. David

doi:10.1080/00380237.2010.10571366

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“…This idea of territorializing physical space, and creating geographies of relational belonging within the city through walking, is often how parades are conceptualized—see, for example, the work on pride parades (Browne, 2007; Johnston & Waitt, 2015), political parades (Edwards & Knottnerus, 2010; O’Reilly & Crutcher, 2006), and parades of national identity such as St Patrick’s Day (Scully, 2012). However, the fact that walking, parading, or marching involves movement emphasizes that territory is an act, and something you carry with you (Deleuze & Guattari, 2004b).…”

Section: Milieus Of the Whit Walks: The Always Are The New And The Discontinuedmentioning

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Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Witnessing Urban Placemaking from the Immanence of “the Middle”

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Medway

2020

Space and Culture

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This paper offers a critical analysis of how urban placemaking as a top-down or bottom-up action, involving organizational intervention or facilitation, is typified by problematic angles of approach. Instead, we evidence a flat ontological perspective, entering into urban assemblages to feel the chaotic and ever-changing forces that make places. Specifically, we use the Deleuzoguattarian lens of the refrain to employ a transversal analysis of the placemaking inherent within an urban event—the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks, a Church of England procession that has been iterated for over 200 years. This reveals the importance of always-becoming place, characterized by ongoing repetition with difference, and embodied in the notion of Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . .. We conclude that urban placemaking is not something that can be simply started through organizational intervention, or facilitation of community-led approaches, but a process that needs to be engaged with from the middle.

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Section: Milieus Of the Whit Walks: The Always Are The New And The Discontinuedmentioning

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Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Witnessing Urban Placemaking from the Immanence of “the Middle”

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Medway

2020

Space and Culture

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“…Accordingly, processions such as the Whit Walks can assume a symbolic function and significant ceremonial meaning for the communities through which they move and take place, with these attributes resulting from their collectively performed solidarity. Furthermore, the fact that such processional forms occur in public spaces, with witnesses, highlights their performative ability to reinforce collective identity positions, as seen in LGBTQ+ Pride parades (Johnston & Waitt, 2015) or Orange Order marches in Northern Ireland (Edwards & Knottnerus, 2010). In turn, this movement through public spaces helps cement a sense of dwelling among relevant communities.…”

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Processional walking: Theorising the ‘place’ of movement in notions of dwelling

Platt

Medway

Steadman

2020

Geographical Research

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This article rethinks dwelling as an active and emergent process through which (re)connections to place are valorised by humans collectively walking with each other in a recursive manner. We revisit Heidegger's notion of dwelling, often criticised for perpetuating enclosure and stasis, by revealing the interconnections between dwelling and movement. Drawing on a two‐century old religious procession—the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks—as an empirical example, our interpretive analysis is centred around three themes. First, we demonstrate how dwelling becomes embodied in performative and collective movement. Second, we examine how dwelling in this context is reinforced through repetition and iteration of that movement. Third, we show how such movement is reliant on repair and maintenance work, which facilitates the (re)emergence of dwelling. We contribute, therefore, empirical insights into how dwelling emerges from a movement through place which, in turn, cements a being in place. Finally, this article has important implications for thinking about how the movement of citizens through processional forms of walking can be a powerful tool for underpinning feelings of dwelling and related concepts of sense of place and civic pride.

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“…RSPs can be ranked by relative dominance within a face-to-face social milieu across four factors: repetitiveness, salience, homologousness, and resources. Over the past two decades, SRT has been applied widely to study various social phenomena and extended across eight theoretical applications: (1) deritualization, the breakdown of social and personal rituals in the response to natural disasters (Thornburg, Knottnerus, and Webb 2007, 2008), extreme disruptions of the social order (Knottnerus 2002, 2005), and ecological stress during the East Asia Dark Ages (Sarabia and Knottnerus 2009); (2) ritual identity construction and the transformation of character, identity, and group membership among Chinese Americans (Guan and Knottnerus 1999, 2006), Italian Americans (Knottnerus and LoConto 2003), and the ritualized duties and inequality of the Malawi (Minton and Knottnerus 2008); (3) the enactment (i.e., activation and mobilization) or failure to enact ritualized practices in organizations, institutions, communities, and individuals exemplified by ritualized maltreatment/neglect in nursing homes (Ulsperger and Knottnerus 2007, 2008, 2009a, 2009b, 2011, 2013) and ritualized deviance in the Enron corporation (Knottnerus et al 2006; Ulsperger and Knottnerus 2006); (4) reproduction of RSPs and social structure among groups, including the slave plantation system (Knottnerus 1999; Knottnerus, Monk, and Jones 1999), boys and girls in the nineteenth-century French educational system (Knottnerus and Van de Poel-Knottnerus 1999; Van de Poel-Knottnerus and Knottnerus 2002), ancient spartan society (Knottnerus and Berry 2002), and reproduction of social structure in task groups (Sell et al 2000); (5) strategic ritualization (ritual legitimators, sponsors, entrepreneurs, and enforcers) and the role of power exercised by groups like the Orange Order (Edwards and Knottnerus 2007, 2010); (6) ritual dynamics involving social inequality, distinction, exclusion, and persecution such as royal women in ancient patriarchal India and NGO volunteers addressing women’s rights in India (Mitra and Knottnerus 2004, 2008) and golf, civility, class, and exclusion in America (Varner and Knottnerus 2002); and (7) applied research, social policy, and personal/social change—SRT has informed a set of policy recommendations to reform nursing homes and reduce elder abuse and improve end-of-life care (Ulsperger and Knottnerus 2013).…”

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Virtual Rituals: Community, Emotion, and Ritual in Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games—A Quantitative Test and Extension of Structural Ritualization Theory

Simpson

Knottnerus

Stern

2018

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Original ArticleOnline video games, especially massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), have fostered large and active online communities. Online communities built around online video games share many of the same aspects of traditional place-based communities (Rheingold 1999). Regardless of whether a community is place-based or virtual, people learn to identify with their community through special events and collective rituals (Cohen 1985). For placebased communities, these collective events can include religious services, political rallies, anniversary celebrations, or local festivals. MMORPGs offer analogous events, raids and quests, in which a group of players must come together and use their abilities to accomplish a task within the game. Little research has sought to understand these online events using sociological theory of rituals.We begin by examining the emergence of MMORPGs from the early days of the Internet to today's multimillionparticipant online communities. Next, we provide the theoretical background for our study beginning with a discussion of the sociology of community outlining a definition of community for MMORPGs. We then discuss the role that ritual plays in defining community commitment. Research using structural ritualization theory (SRT) is reviewed, highlighting its strength for examining the impact of ritualized practices on community commitment. However, we critique SRT research for not developing a quantitative research program. Using an extension of SRT focused on the production of emotional intensity, we develop a set of items to quantitatively evaluate the role of four ritual factors dynamics in producing emotional intensity and commitment to community. After presenting our research methodology, we present our results and discuss their implications for SRT and our understanding of MMORPG communities. The Emergence of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games AbstractMillions of people worldwide immerse themselves in massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games generate large, diverse communities that engage in rituals within the game, completing missions or quests. What role do these MMORPG rituals play in commitment to these gaming communities? To address this question, we extend structural ritualization theory to explain the impact of ritual events and emotion on commitment to community in the game World of Warcraft. Our findings suggest that players focused on inanimate resources are less committed than players who focus on social aspects of the ritual events inside the game. We also find that ...

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The Orange Order: Parades, other Rituals, and Their Outcomes

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Witnessing Urban Placemaking from the Immanence of “the Middle”

Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Witnessing Urban Placemaking from the Immanence of “the Middle”

Processional walking: Theorising the ‘place’ of movement in notions of dwelling

Virtual Rituals: Community, Emotion, and Ritual in Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games—A Quantitative Test and Extension of Structural Ritualization Theory

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