Place in Research

Theory, Methodology, and Methods

Bibliographic Data

ID19915891
AuthorsEve Tuck (0000-0001-5423-6391), Marcia Mckenzie (0000-0002-8037-8059)
Year2014
Publication date2014-08-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePlace in Research (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315764849
OpenAlexW4241459292
Open LibraryOL36215388M
ISBN9781315764849
LanguageEN
Citations received118

Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this dynamic volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. There are often important divergences and even competing logics at work in these areas of research, some which may indeed be incommensurable. This volume explores how researchers around the globe are coming to terms - both theoretically and practically - with place in the context of settler colonialism, globalization, and environmental degradation. Tuck and McKenzie outline a trajectory of critical place inquiry that not only furthers empirical knowledge, but ethically imagines new possibilities for collaboration and action. Critical place inquiry can involve a range of research methodologies; this volume argues that what matters is how the chosen methodology engages conceptually with place in order to mobilize methods that enable data collection and analyses that address place explicitly and politically. Unlike other approaches that attempt to superficially tag on Indigenous concerns, decolonizing conceptualizations of land and place and Indigenous methods are central, not peripheral, to practices of critical place inquiry.

Sociology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Espace · forskning · Human Geography · Landschaft · Metaphysics · Methodology · Ort · Philosophy · Recherche · Research · Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning · Social aspects · Social Science · Social sciences · Sociala aspekter · Society · Space · Tid och rum