Maintaining Dominican identity in the Dominican Republic
Forging a baseball landscape in Villa Ascension
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2378166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Wise (0000-0002-4154-8932, Glasgow Caledonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-178 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1012690213478252 |
| OpenAlex | W2139259340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 39 |
Much research concerning the Dominican Republic and baseball focuses on globalization. In acknowledging the importance of such research, this study contributes a particular understanding of sport in a rural heterogeneous community, by addressing landscape and place identity. Villa Ascension and Caraballo are adjacent rural communities in the northern Puerto Plata Province. Currently there exists one usable sports space, designated as a football field, where Haitian residents practice football. Although this landscape is representative of Haitian identity, this designation transcends common sporting landscapes in the Dominican Republic, where Haitians typically use baseball fields to recreate. Dominicans also use the football field for baseball, and have forged a baseball landscape in an attempt to maintain the presence of their sporting culture. Conceptual social-geographical perspectives of sense of place and staging/performing identity in the landscape are reinforced through participant observations and interviews/conversations with local Haitian and Dominican participants to support critical understandings in this particular locale
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Civil engineering · Field research · Football · Geography · Media studies · Participant observation · Place identity · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Urban planning · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Engineering · Gender Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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Landscape
The social construction of communities
Power of Place
Textures Of Place
Geographies of Power
Sites of Sport
The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Geography
Football and the politics of place
Baseball as Underdevelopment
Running Havana
National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life
Nationalization of Dominican Borderlands
The production of space
Transforming urban landscapes
Sense of community
Geographies of Scale in International Rugby Union
Growing the Game
Dis-placed voices
The Tropic of Baseball
Chain reaction
Transcending the borders of Irish identity? Narratives of northern nationalist footballers in Northern Ireland
From racial exclusions to new inclusions
Sport and Belonging
Geographies of Gender, Sexuality and Race
The Performance of Golf
Progressive Ethnocentrism
From Immigrant to Overstayer
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |