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What a difference place makes: Place gestalt theory and some methodological thoughts

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posted on 2023-05-17, 19:58 authored by Kate BoothKate Booth
Place is a recurrent yet contested theme in the social sciences, and an emerging theme within qualitative inquiry. How one understands place has significant bearing upon the difference that place makes to methodology. Accounts that rely on fixed, bordered, and exclusionist notions of place-based authenticity are problematic. A conceptualisation of place as dynamic, open and more-than-human – theorised here as place gestalts – offers other methodological possibilities regarding the representation of the self in relation to place. It also offers a post human rationale for research that engages with the more intangible elements that, in part, constitute one’s sense of place, such as emotions, dreams and imaginings.

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Publication title

Qualitative Inquiry

Volume

21

Pagination

20-27

ISSN

1077-8004

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Place of publication

2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, USA, Ca, 91320

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Copyright 2014 The Authors

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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