Making Sense of Place : Multidisciplinary Perspective

350 Pages·2012·86.004 MB·English

by  Convery, Ian, Corsane, Gerard, Davis, Peter

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The ‘Heritage Matters’ Series
Editorial Board
Professor Peter Davis, Professor Peter G. Stone, Dr Chris Whitehead
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T he 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. Researchers in the field of place
have adopted culturally and geographically nuanced analyses, approaches that are sensitive to
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Peter davis
chris Whitehead
Heritage Matters is a series of edited and single-authored volumes which addresses the whole
range of issues that confront the cultural heritage sector as we face the global challenges of the
twenty-first century. The series follows the ethos of the international centre for cultural and
Heritage Studies (iccHS) at newcastle university, where these issues are seen as part of an
integrated whole, including both cultural and natural agendas, and thus encompasses challenges
faced by all types of museums, art galleries, heritage sites and the organisations and individuals
that work with, and are affected by them.
volume 1: The destruction of cultural Heritage in iraq
Edited by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly
volume 2: Metal detecting and archaeology
Edited by Suzie Thomas and Peter G. Stone
volume 3: archaeology, cultural Property, and the Military
Edited by Laurie Rush
volume 4: cultural Heritage, ethics, and the Military
Edited by Peter G. Stone
volume 5: Pinning down the Past: archaeology, Heritage, and education today
Mike Corbishley
volume 6: Heritage, ideology, and identity in central and eastern europe:
contested Pasts, contested Presents
Edited by Matthew Rampley
Making Sense of Place
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Doreen Massey
Introduction: Making Sense of Place 1
Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane and Peter Davis
Histories, Landscapes and Identities
1 Land, Territory and Identity 11
David Storey
2 Viewing the Emergence of Scenery from the English Lake District 23
Mark Haywood
3 Cumbrians and their ‘ancient kingdom’: Landscape, Literature and Regional Identity 33
Penny Bradshaw
4 Gypsies, Travellers and Place: A Co-ethnography 43
Ian Convery and Vincent O’Brien
Rural Sense of Place
5 Rural People and the Land 57
Michael Woods, Jesse Heley, Carol Richards and Suzie Watkin
6 Hill Farming Identities and Connections to Place 67
Lois Mansfield
7 Place, Culture and Everyday Life in Kyrgyz Villages 79
Vincent O’Brien, Kenesh Djusipov and Tamara Kudaibergenova
8 Local Renewables for Local Places? Attitudes to Renewable Energy and the Role 93
of Communities in Place-based Renewable Energy Development
Jennifer Rogers, Ian Convery, Eunice Simmons and Andrew Weatherall
9 Health, People and Forests 107
Amanda Bingley
urban Sense of Place
10 achieving Memorable Places … ‘urban Sense of Place’ for Successful urban 119
Planning and renewal?
Michael Clark
11 The Place of art in the Public art gallery: a visual Sense of Place 133
Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead and Helen Graham
12 Survival Sex Work: vulnerable, violent and Hidden lifescapes in the north east 145
of england
Christopher Hartworth, Joanne Hartworth and Ian Convery
13 gardens, Parks and Sense of Place 159
Ian Thompson
14 gardens: Places for nature and Human–nature interaction 169
Paul Cammack and Ian Convery
15 The image Mill: a Sense of Place for a Museum of images 177
Philippe Dubé
cultural landscapes
16 Making Sense of Place and landscape Planning at the landscape Scale 191
Maggie Roe
17 cultural landscape and Sense of Place: community and tourism representations 207
of the Barossa
Lyn Leader-Elliott
18 territorial cults as a Paradigm of Place in tibet 219
John Studley
19 Heritage and Sense of Place: amplifying local voice and co-constructing Meaning 235
Stephanie K Hawke
conservation, Biodiversity and tourism
20 Sense of Place in Sustainable tourism: a case Study in the rainforest and 249
Savannahs of guyana
Gerard Corsane and D Jared Bowers
21 Placing the Maasai 261
Mark Toogood
22 nature tourism: do Bears create a Sense of Place? 271
Owen T Nevin, Peter Swain and Ian Convery
23 What’s up? climate change and our relationship with the Hills 279
Rachel M Dunk, Mary-Ann Smyth and Lisa J Gibson
24 nature conservation, rural development and ecotourism in central Mozambique: 291
Which Space do local communities get?
Stefaan Dondeyne, Randi Kaarhus and Gaia Allison
25 rainforests, Place and Palm oil in Sabah, Borneo 303
Ellie Lindsay, Andrew Ramsey, Ian Convery and Eunice Simmons
afterword: untying the rope 313
Josie Baxter
list of contributors 321
index 329
illustrations
cover iMageS:
(top) Peter lehmann and Barossa grape growers in the weighbridge at Peter lehmann Wines.
Image reproduced with kind permission of Peter Lehmann Wines, Barossa, South Australia.
(Middle) living in traditional felt yurts, these herder families live in summer pastures (Jailoo)
from late May to the end of September. © Vincent O’Brien
(Bottom) The Blue Planet: earth from space. Image courtesy of NASA and made available by
The Visible Earth: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
figureS
4.1. caldewgate, early 1900s. Image courtesy of www.cumbriaimagebank.org.uk 49
4.2. caldewgate (Paddy’s Market) in the early 1950s. Image courtesy of Cumbria 49
Newspapers Group
4.3. caldewgate (Paddy’s Market) 2010. Authors’ fieldwork 50
6.1. upland Habitats: valley floor to fell top. Adapted from: Dodds et al 1996, 6, 56
with permission from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
6.2. a typical cumbrian Hill farm. Lois Mansfield 57
6.3. Social capital: local to local connections. Lois Mansfield 71
6.4. arnstein’s ladder of citizen Participation. Adapted from: Mitchell 2002; 72
Warburton 2004
7.1. Visible Voice engages in collaborative ethnographic projects in the remote village 80
communities of Bokonbaeva, eky naryn, karakolka, kokjar and tolok.
© Vincent O’Brien
7.2. living in traditional felt yurts, these herder families live in summer pastures 83
(Jailoo) from late May to the end of September. © Vincent O’Brien
7.3. located in a remote and windswept mountain valley, tolok is home to around 84
800 ethnic kyrgyz. © Vincent O’Brien
7.4. The yurt provides a physical model of kyrgyz cultural orientations. 87
© Vincent O’Brien
7.5. The yurt’s structure provides an exceptionally mobile and durable habitat that 88
simultaneously emphasises the co-dependency of people, spirits, earth and sky.
© Vincent O’Brien
7.6. a circular opening in the roof of the yurt, the tunduk, provides a window between 89
the middle world of people and the sky spirit world of tengri. © Vincent O’Brien
7.7. a unique willow tree next to a small spring in a semi-arid region provides the focus 90
for the sacred site at Manzhyly ata. © Vincent O’Brien
illustrations ix
8.1. Possible responses to a proposed re installation as a product of interactions 94
between attitudes towards technology, place and development process. Jenny Rogers
8.2. Pressures on rural communities such as village a. Jenny Rogers 98
8.3. compatibility of woodfuel heating schemes in village a with factors affecting 101
residents’ sense of place. Jenny Rogers
10.1. castlefield canal Basin, Manchester, March 2010. Michael Clark 123
10.2. Bristol city docks, September 2009. Michael Clark 124
10.3. Bristol city docks, September 2009. Michael Clark 124
10.4. Poster advertising urban Splash’s ‘chips’ development in front of derelict structure 126
ripe for renewal or demolition, new islington, Manchester, March 2010.
Michael Clark
10.5. urban Splash’s ‘chips’ apartment block shortly after completion, but not yet fully 126
occupied, new islington, Manchester, March 2010. Michael Clark
10.6. urban Splash’s successful conversion of the historic royal William yard, Plymouth, 127
May 2010. Michael Clark
12.1. Summary of survival sex work lifescape. After Hartworth et al 2010 148
12.2. daily drug spend (in sterling) for survival sex workers. Source: Voices Heard (2007) 150
12.3. Methods of payment for sex. After Voices Heard 2007 151
15.1. The château frontenac in all its architectural splendour. Luc Antoine Couturier – 178
www.quebec-photo.com
15.2. France Bringing faith to the Hurons of New France; artist unknown, oil on canvas, 180
late 17th century. Collection du Monastère des Ursulines de Québec, Musée des
Ursulines de Québec, restored by the Centre de conservation du Québec
15.3. view of the old Port of Quebec with the Bunge grain elevators that serve as a 182
giant projection screen for The Image Mill. Francis Vachon, 2009
15.4. Panorama of The Image Mill taken during an evening screening. 184
Francis Vachon, 2009
16.1. The multi-dimensional nature of landscape. Source: Swanwick and Land Use 192
Consultants (2002)
16.2. The Blue Planet: earth from space. Image courtesy of NASA 193
16.3. Wild ponies on dartmoor. Maggie Roe 195
16.4. Selling to ‘insiders’: the representation of new settlements to potential chinese 198
buyers in Shenzhen, South china, provides some startling descriptions. Maggie Roe
16.5. community types. Maggie Roe 199
16.6. The kent downs Jigsaw Project, where local people took photographs then 201
selected them in a community involvement exercise to construct a map that
represented landscape identity. By permission of Debbie Bartlett
16.7. cattle-dung sticks used for fuel drying outside the former home of the poet 202
rabindrinath tagore, Bangladesh. Maggie Roe
17.1. Hillside vineyards and the Bethany Wines cellar door; similar images have been in 211
use for about 20 years and are used on the Barossa website. Image reproduced with
kind permission of Bethany Wines, Barossa, South Australia