“Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges”
Changing Senses of Place: Navigating Global Challenges
Lynne Manzo (University of Washington)
Daniel Williams (U.S. Dept of Forest Services)
Christopher Raymond (University of Helsinki)
Andres Di
Masso (University of Barcelona)
Richard
Stedman (Cornell University)
In the 21 st century, individuals and societies face multiple and often competing global challenges driven by social, environmental, economic and political forces. Environmental changes such as sea-level rise, glacier melts and biodiversity redistribution are adversely affecting ecological and human well-being. Simultaneously, urbanization and urban regeneration programs, along with new forms and patterns of human/social and corporate movement are appearing and accelerating in a globalizing world driven by market forces, new technologies, polycentric governance, media transformations and related cultural trends of late modernity. This includes multiple forms of human mobility whether by choice, or to escape poverty and persecution, war and disease, or becauseof life-stage residential changes, travel and tourism, and peripatetic work patterns. However, the reality and impacts of place change and mobility are critical aspects of 21 st century life that continue to influence our senses of place.
Given this context, this workshop seeks to explore new scholarly ground regarding the dynamics of changing senses of place and examine the applicability of a pluralistic conceptualization of senses of place as catalyzed by multiple environmental and social challenges affecting the globe. Accommodating variability in temporal and spatial dynamics of senses of place across a range of global challenges remains a critical research gap and warrants a multi-disciplinary exploration. This workshop aims to consider a range of perspectives that examine the interface between senses of place and an array of place-based environmental challenges building upon current work, including: an eco-critical account of the relationship between sense of place, migration, gentrification and displacement; a political account of how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced; and expressions of change, stasis and resistance associated with globalization and everyday life.
In this workshop, we seek further articulation of a conceptualization of ‘senses of place’ founded on different ontological commitments to lay new ground for understanding and addressing the global challenges pertinent to our time. In examining multiple senses of place this workshop challenge to mainstream assumptions in current sense of place theory, particularly those grounded in an understanding of how individuals or communities are rooted to a fixed geographic locale, and in interpretations of place meanings as tending to inhibit change, and those that emphasize a singular center of significance.
The workshop will begin with a short presentation by workshop "presenters" on their current research on emerging senses of place to catalyze discussion, but the majority of session time will be devoted to interaction and discussion among organizers and the audience to engage new ideas and conceptualizations of senses of place in different contexts around the
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