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Date |
2015-07 |
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p15448444 |
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abstract |
Situating itself in encounter and public space debates and borrowing from nonrepresentational
theory approaches, this paper uses data from the authors’ 2-year Economic and Social
Research Council research project to consider how local urban parks can work as sites
of routine encounter, mixity, and place belonging. The paper explores how parks as
green public spaces are not only important as sites of inclusive openness but that
the materiality of parks is a key dynamic in affective encounter processes. Parks
can work as animators of social interactions, participatory practices, and place affinities
across ethnic and cultural difference. The paper concludes that the concept of convivial
encounter can be extended to incorporate the concept of elective practices – choosing
to be in shared public space can generate connective sensibilities that are not necessarily
contingent on exchange. In using parks as a lens to examine localities and diversity,
the paper critically reflects on research practices for understanding and describing
heterogeneous formations of multiculture and argues that the project’s research design
and the fieldwork methods present an attempt to carefully and appropriately respond
to research with complexly different places and populations. |
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authorList |
authors |
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5 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317534 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317579 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317627 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317632 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317633 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317634 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317635 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317636 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/317645 |
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volume |
21 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Neal, Sarah ; Bennett, Katy; Jones, Hannah; Cochrane, Allan and Mohan, Giles
(2015). Multiculture and public parks: researching super-diversity and attachment
in public green space. Population, Space and Place, 21(5) pp. 463–475. |
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label |
Neal, Sarah ; Bennett, Katy; Jones, Hannah; Cochrane, Allan and Mohan, Giles (2015).
Multiculture and public parks: researching super-diversity and attachment in public
green space. Population, Space and Place, 21(5) pp. 463–475. |
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Title |
Multiculture and public parks: researching super-diversity and attachment in public
green space |
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oro |