as my role in this project is to be the academic, here are some quotes for the day:
Contemporary urban geographies have worked extensively with conceptualisations of space and place and their importance for both identifications and identity formation. Thus place and identity are powerfully connected, but often in ways which involve active processes of exclusion. (Reay and Lucey 2000)
Pam's Bakery, his mum used to work at Pam's Bakery. I remember when I was at Junior School I would go there for a bottle of pop, they were really nice people, I mean they got to know you, Mr [name of informant] my dad was really well known around here. The lady at the shop, you know right at the top of Ferham Road, on the corner, there's a shop that sells all stuff there. If you go in there and ask about my dad she goes "oh yes Mr K***" of course because he used to go in there all the time and she has fond recollections of him still. (Informant, Ferham Families project)
No one lives in the world in general (Geertz 1996:262)
To live is to live locally and to know is first of all to know the place one is in. (Casey 1996: 18).
They’ve got great memories of sort of how they were living, even right down to er you know where Braggatt Park is now, they’ve knocked all the houses down as you go down the dual carriageway, that is where used to live, just over there, as you go down take a right into Kimberworth road there, go down there and the houses back off and the toilets would be at the rear, and they went to Kimberworth school. (Informant, Ferham Families project).
Places form a reservoir of meanings which people can draw upon to tell stories about and thereby define themselves. (Thrift 1997: 160)
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i really like these quotes, my thesis kinda tackles this in regard to my positioning and the farm, i am finding it hard to say something that hasnt been said better before. i read the perec book -species and space and other pieces and realise theres not much more to say. -how do you find a way forward.?
You might like De Certeau The Practice of everyday life, also Gaston Bachelard the Poetics of Space also Lefebvre, H. (1991) The Production of Space I think there is a lot to say but strangely most of the people who say it are French.
thanks - the bachelard is a great book i love it especially the chapter on nest- i wanted to be a bird even more after reading that. What is it with those french?
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