Theory and Methods in Spatial Analysis. Towards Integrating Qualitative, Quantitative and Cartographic Approaches in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Making place for sustainable welfare in rural settings

“…Due to the focus on welfare organisations' daily provision of sustainable welfare, placemaking will be referred to as a bottom-up and hands-on process that recognises the way employees intentionally or unintentionally create, shape and change places (Baur et al, 2014). Furthermore, placemaking encompasses every aspect of place, including sustainability (Courage, 2013;Pascucci, 2015).…”

“…Like most sociologically informed analyses of the making of places, our focus in this study is directed towards actors; that is, the ones who create and change place (Baur et al, 2014). Due to the focus on employees, the concept of agency becomes prominent; that is, employees' social commitment and capacity to control and plan their actions based on their own considerations and what is happening in their surroundings (Emirbayer & Mische, 1998).…”

“…The empirical material draws on ethnographic field studies, a methodology that is often used and advocated for grasping short-term processes such as interactions about place, space and spatial practices (Baur et al, 2014;Merriman, 2015;Schoneboom, 2018;McClinchey, 2021;Chica, 2021). We chose this methodology because it provided an opportunity to be close to employees' work practices so that we could get hold of the conduct of their innovative state of minds.…”

“…Here, placemaking is referred to as a bottom-up and hands-on process involving how employees intentionally or unintentionally create, shape, and change places (Baur et al, 2014). Thus, the analysis investigates the interplay between placemaking and employees' abilities to solve problems and be innovative in everyday work practices (Lew, 2017;Ewalt, 2018), as central to emerging forms of sustainable welfare.…”

How Should Historians Talk about Spatial Agency?

“…Historical scholarship has long been aware of "space" as an analytical category: that is, an areal framework deployed by humans to interpret the world, either within a historical period itself or retrospectively by historians. 2 For example, a spatial concept such as "Christendom" or "Third World" might be used in a particular period to understand the world in contextuallyspecific ways. 3 Alternatively, a historian might establish or deploy spatial categories -the local, the global -to afford new outlooks on the past.…”