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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an
increasingly common and complex combination of environmental,
social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and
emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as
'victims', overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and
skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory
research with more than 550 children internationally, this book
argues for a radical transformation in children's roles and voices
in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers
how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises
children's capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually
benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
Essays dealing with the question of how "sense of place" is
constructed, in a variety of locations and media. The term "sense
of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to
understand the complex processes through which individuals and
groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural
and cultural environments, and which over the last twenty years or
so has been increasingly defined, theorized and used across diverse
disciplines in different ways. Sense of place mediates our
relationship with the world and with each other; it providesa
profoundly important foundation for individual and community
identity. It can be an intimate, deeply personal experience yet
also something which we share with others. It is at once
recognizable but never constant; rather it isembodied in the flux
between familiarity and difference. Research in this area requires
culturally and geographically nuanced analyses, approaches that are
sensitive to difference and specificity, event and locale. The
essayscollected here, drawn from a variety of disciplines
(including but not limited to sociology, history, geography,
outdoor education, museum and heritage studies, health, and English
literature), offer an international perspectiveon the relationship
between people and place, via five interlinked sections (Histories,
Landscapes and Identities; Rural Sense of Place; Urban Sense of
Place; Cultural Landscapes; Conservation, Biodiversity and
Tourism). Ian Convery is Reader in Conservation and Forestry,
National School of Forestry, University of Cumbria; Gerard Corsane
is Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museum and Galley Studies,
International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle
University; Peter Davis is Professor of Museology, International
Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University.
Contributors: Doreen Massey, Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter
Davis, David Storey, Mark Haywood, Penny Bradshaw, Vincent O'Brien,
Michael Woods, Jesse Heley, Carol Richards, Suzie Watkin, Lois
Mansfield, Kenesh Djusipov, Tamara Kudaibergonova, Jennifer Rogers,
Eunice Simmons, Andrew Weatherall, Amanda Bingley, Michael Clark,
Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, Helen Graham, Christopher
Hartworth, Joanne Hartworth, Ian Thompson, Paul Cammack, Philippe
Dube, Josie Baxter, Maggie Roe, Lyn Leader-Elliott, John Studley,
Stephanie K.Hawke, D. Jared Bowers, Mark Toogood, Owen T. Nevin,
Peter Swain, Rachel M. Dunk, Mary-Ann Smyth, Lisa J. Gibson,
Stefaan Dondeyne, Randi Kaarhus, Gaia Allison, Ellie Lindsay,
Andrew Ramsay
Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of
humans as subjects. This collaboration by a group of feminist
researchers looks at subjectivity in relation to researchers, the
researched, and audiences, as well as at the connections between
subjectivity and knowledge. The authors argue that subjectivity is
spatialized in embodied, multiple, and fractured ways, challenging
the dominant notions of the rational, 'bounded' subject. A highly
original contribution to feminist geography, this book is equally
relevant to social science debates about using qualitative
methodologies and to ongoing discussions on the ethics of social
research.
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