Geographies of Attachment and Despair
Evoking the Ambivalence of Place(ment) through Poetic Analysis of Urban Decline
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13100781 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chad N Steacy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 144-157 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GeoHumanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2373566x.2017.1292113 |
| OpenAlex | W2604962100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Scholarly attention to urban decline too often effaces the lived experience of those who inhabit these stigmatized and demoralizing landscapes. This article addresses this gap by using narrative-based poetic analysis to critically interpret residents’ accounts of calling a declining city home. Building on an initial thematic analysis of a broader selection of community discourse, this focused, arts-based engagement constructs a deeper, more evocative portrait of urban decline from four participant interviews, highlighting the ambivalence and pathos of “belonging” to a place in decline. Through the assemblage of what have emerged as four individually discrete haiku “suites,” this article interrogates and attempts to critically empathize with what it means to be in a place of decline. In addition, this article outlines a methodological approach more compatible with critical social-scientific research than is commonly considered
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Haiku · Literature · Narrative · Pathos · Poetry · Qualitative research · Social analysis · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Thematic analysis · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Voices of decline
Handbook of qualitative research
Real Cities
Uneven Development
Out of the Closet
Qualitative analysis
Susquehanna, River of Dreams
Industrial Sunset
Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place. Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
Inventing Black-on-Black Violence
Continuity and Decline in the Anthracite Towns of Pennsylvania
Fertile Obsession
Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis
Haikuas a discourse regulation device
Telling tales? Using ethnographic fictions to speak embodied 'truth
Bringing the Message Forward
A/r/t
Poking Around Poetically
Concern With Craft
Poetry and Prose
Don't You Wish You Had Blond Hair
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |