Siting Prisons, Sighting Communities
Geographies of Objection in a Planning Process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4142731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Armstrong (0000-0001-6978-8551, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 550-565 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a45407 |
| OpenAlex | W1982638432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper reviews the planning process for a Scottish prison located near a former mining village. Analysing the letters of objection submitted by residents offers an opportunity to explore local views about prison and community and to relate these to the unique social and spatial history of the area. The planning process itself structured how residents were able to express themselves and defined what counted as a relevant objection. After deconstructing this process, the paper then restores and uses as a framework for analysis three geographies of objection stripped from local responses to the development proposal: The emotional, temporal, and spatial. Emotional expressions of objection added intensity and gave meaning to claims about the historical decline of the region and also conveyed a deep sense of the proposed building site as a lived space. Particular grounds of opposition-over fear of strangers, the fragility of a local orchid, and the pollution from mining-provide an opportunity to explore the complex nature of place meaning and community identity, ultimately leading to a conclusion that the meaning of place is always in flux. The paper argues that Simmel's classic concept of the stranger, as the outsider who comes to stay, offers a useful analytic in understanding how the quality of proximal remoteness that prisons and other unwanted developments constitute participates in a constantly evolving sense of the local
Aesthetics · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Prison · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present
The impacts of onshore-windfarms on a UK rural tourism landscape
The Impossibility of Habitability
Our zona
Carceral Geographies/Geographien des Einschlusses
Carceral Infrastructure Planning
Prison expansion in the plains grasslands
Rationality and power
Planners' Alchemy Transforming Nimby to Yimby
Golden Gulag
Deadly Symbiosis
Engaging the global countryside
Profit from Punishment? The politics of prisons, poverty and neoliberal restructuring in the rural American Northwest
The Prison Industry
Nimbys and Lulus
Constructing a Prison in the Forest
The place of emotions in academic research
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Geographies of Detention and Imprisonment
Remaking Places and Fashioning an Opposition Discourse
Strategy and Sentiment
Discourses of Objection
Bindings against Boundaries
Theorizing Disaster
| Citations per year | 1.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |