{"id":119,"date":"2017-07-04T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2017-07-04T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:37:43","slug":"place-and-the-fluidity-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/chnewcastleblog\/2017\/07\/04\/place-and-the-fluidity-of-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Place and the fluidity of identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll need to zoom in on the photos to read our whiteboard ideas, but here’s a record of our classroom discussions yesterday.<\/p>\n

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These are some of the many really interesting points that came out of our discussions yesterday:<\/p>\n

Regional identity<\/strong><\/p>\n

This idea that regional identity was loosing relevance, and in particular whether the ‘next generation’ (youth in the UK) are thinking more ‘nationally’ rather than regionally compared to previous generations (in the wake of Brexit? we mused). If you’re interested in this, have a look at Paasi’s work\u00a0on regional identity:<\/p>\n

Paasi, A, Region and place: regional identity in question, Progress in Human, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 4, pp. 475 – 485<\/i><\/p>\n

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Fluidity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another point made was about the fluidity of identities, and this contestation between an ascribed identities and attributed identities. Take a look at Brah’s seminal work on Diaspora\u00a0which argues that identity is fairly fixed culturally\u00a0but malleable geographically:<\/p>\n

Brah, E. 1996<\/span>: Cartographies of diaspora: contesting identities. London<\/span>: Routledge<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal versus place <\/strong><\/p>\n

There was also some argument around whether our personality and familial ties and relationships governed our sense of place, rather than or physical geography. There was mention of ‘being born on the banks of the Tyne’ as a physical definition of being a Geordie, but then talk of accent as imperative to belonging and claiming identities. Something that we didn’t touch on, were experiences and memories of place, and in particular our sensory reception and then projection of place through these experiences. If you’re interested in this more psycho-geographic approach to identity, take a look at the work of Hough:<\/p>\n

Hough, M, Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape, Yale university Press, 1990: New Haven and London<\/p>\n

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Places that have a placed identity \/ ‘authentic places’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another area of discussion was around some places having more of a placed identity than others, so Newcastle, for example, having many cultural and literary\u00a0associations and stereotypes, having many\u00a0physical outputs and industries, and\u00a0being widely portrayed and ‘known’ in popular culture. \u00a0All these aspects help to authenticate and brand the city, and with it, an identity that goes alongside the city. If you’re interested in this, there’s a very interesting article\u00a0 by Sim, who looks at the branding and authenticating of two towns in the Lake District via\u00a0their food heritage and\u00a0outputs.<\/p>\n

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(Souvenirs: branding and creating the city: photo taken during our \u00a0live photostream exercise)<\/p>\n

Sims, R, Food, place and authenticity: local food and the sustainable tourism experience, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 17:3, 2009<\/p>\n

There’s also some interesting work coming from urban planning and architecture on place making and place shaping, that looks at how to design spaces with placed identity in mind. Take a look at:<\/p>\n

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Andres, L, Differential Spaces, Power Hierarchy and Collaborative Planning: A Critique of the Role of Temporary Uses in Shaping and Making Places\u00a0Urban Studies,<\/i>\u00a02012, Vol 50, Issue 4, pp. 759 – 775<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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