Geographies of Attachment and Despair

Evoking the Ambivalence of Place(ment) through Poetic Analysis of Urban Decline

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13100781
AutoresChad N Steacy (autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen3
Número1
Páginas144-157
Fecha de publicación2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2017.1292113
OpenAlexW2604962100
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas26

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