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Where are you from? The importance of place for identity
Jenna CondieLecturer in Psychology
@jennacondie
Psychology Seminar SeriesUniversity of Salford
May 2013#salfordpsych
Overview
My PhD My PhD
journeyjourney
EnvironmentalPsychology
Environmental Conditions
Flickr: Gene Hunt
AnnoyanceAnnoyance
StressStress
Manage, mitigate, Manage, mitigate, & control… & control…
‘Objective’ measurement
Establishing exposure-response relationships
Link: http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&Completed=0&ProjectID=15949
Defra Project (NANR209)
Published: March 2011
Measuring human response
as ‘annoyance’
Thinking about the last 12 months or so, when indoors at home, how bothered, annoyed or disturbed have you been by feeling vibration or shaking or hearing or seeing things rattle, vibrate or shake caused by ________________. Would you say not at all, slightly, moderately, very or extremely?
Thinking about the last 12 months or so, when indoors at home, how bothered, annoyed or disturbed have you been by feeling vibration or shaking or hearing or seeing things rattle, vibrate or shake caused by ________________. Would you say not at all, slightly, moderately, very or extremely?
PhD Research
““A common story of the professional development A common story of the professional development of most qualitative researchers…goes something of most qualitative researchers…goes something
like this: dissatisfaction with quantitative or like this: dissatisfaction with quantitative or experimental methods has led many of us to adopt experimental methods has led many of us to adopt alternative, qualitative methods and, perhaps, to alternative, qualitative methods and, perhaps, to
wonder how our own perspective and experiences wonder how our own perspective and experiences enter into, transform or change the issue or area enter into, transform or change the issue or area
being investigated (as well as ourselves)”being investigated (as well as ourselves)”
(Sullivan, 2002, p. 3). (Sullivan, 2002, p. 3).
Moving from……a position of knowing to a position of understanding...
…takes time!
PhD wordle from 2009
PhD wordle from 2013
Environmental conditions as Environmental conditions as ‘place’‘place’
Flickr: fsse8info
Flickr: khym54 Flickr: Bob the courier
Link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=147068748787866&set=vb.101670060006938&type=2&theater
The broader context where environmental conditions “are only part of the story” (Moser, 2009, p. 1).
Language as agency and structure: Language as agency and structure:
That’s so annoying That’s so annoying
Music to my earsMusic to my ears
Agency Structure
Places are
“doubly constructed”
(Gieryn, 2002, p. 465)
Motive for place
constructions –
identity work!
The importance of language
““One of the ways One of the ways people use place people use place
in interaction is in interaction is as a resource for as a resource for
constructing constructing identity, one’s identity, one’s
meaning in meaning in the world”the world”
(Myers, 2006, p. 39) (Myers, 2006, p. 39)
Where you are is who you are
Do we still need to Do we still need to belong somewhere? belong somewhere?
Place Identity (Dixon & Durrheim, 2000)
Dialogical Self(Bakhtin, 1986; Hermans, 2004)
Hi, I’m from Manchester Hi, I’m from Manchester I’m from
Manchester tooI’m from
Manchester too
I’m from Salford I’m from Salford
From the monologue of the From the monologue of the individual to the dialogue of individual to the dialogue of
multiple voicesmultiple voices
‘‘Double voiced’ (Frank, 2005)Double voiced’ (Frank, 2005)
‘…always an orientation to other’ ‘…always an orientation to other’ (Madill & Sullivan, 2010, p. 2196)(Madill & Sullivan, 2010, p. 2196)
Flickr: m
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et5
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The (In)Significance of Railways
Donna: well the house that we previously lived in was only a two bedroomed house and we had two small children at the time, a boy and a girl so it was a bit cramped we actually, well my parents knew the people who lived in this house prior to us and we were searching for somewhere to move to and they just happened to say you know, come and have a look at the house and we fell in love with it straight away and that’s when we put an offer in and the rest is history
Jenna: so can I ask sort of what were the reasons to move, for more space or?
Donna: it was it was space, there’s a lot more land, there’s a lot more space in the house as well, and even though with the train line it is actually a peaceful area
Lived ideologies Lived ideologies (Billig et al., 1988)(Billig et al., 1988)
Kindly drawn by Kindly drawn by @coen_sharon this @coen_sharon this morning…unprompted! morning…unprompted!
‘‘The Rural Idyll’The Rural Idyll’
Flickr: Katy Wrathall
‘A peaceful and quiet place’
Jenna: What’s the area like?Roxanne: The areas good, the areas good, it’s quiet, apart from the trains, but like I say over the years you just get used to them
‘‘Trouble’ (Wetherell, 1998)Trouble’ (Wetherell, 1998)
Chris:Chris: …the only one, the only concern was the …the only one, the only concern was the what do you call it, like freight and they’re really what do you call it, like freight and they’re really early hours and they do make a hell of a row, early hours and they do make a hell of a row, the screeching and the clanging, what is it, they the screeching and the clanging, what is it, they go through very slowly and then they’ll stop and go through very slowly and then they’ll stop and then they’ll pick up again but been here eight then they’ll pick up again but been here eight years and I couldn’t tell you when they come on years and I couldn’t tell you when they come on a regular basis now, you just get used to it yeaha regular basis now, you just get used to it yeah
Three interpretative repertoires:
•Strategies of ‘normification’ (Bush et al., 2001)•Construct moral selves (e.g. tolerant)•Manage and negotiated identities of place
The Role of Adaptation
You get used to it
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNDIiXrjV-8
• Spoiled identity (Goffman, 1963)
• Ideological Dilemma – finding somewhere to live versus living alongside railways
• Making sense of ‘disruption’
Railways as ‘commonplace’
I suppose everyone lives near something that makes noise and I think its just a by-product of 21st century now
I suppose everyone lives near something that makes noise and I think its just a by-product of 21st century now
Allen
Miles Apart?
Relativism
Positivism Constructionism
Realism
Quantitative Qualitative
Back together…
Response (e.g. annoyance)
Exp
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Place Change
Adaptation
New Sources
Sustainability
‘Identity’ mattersto policy making
•Behaviour•Health & Well-being•Social Change
•Driver paper on
place-based and
environmental change
Where are you from? The importance of place for identity
Jenna CondieLecturer in Psychology
@jennacondie
Psychology Seminar SeriesUniversity of Salford
May 2013#salfordpsych