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Thinking through Lines: Locating perception and experience in place

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posted on 2023-05-19, 05:10 authored by Kate BoothKate Booth
How one conceptualizes place in research matters. I offer a ‘line methodology’ informed by Ingold’s idea that places are ‘tissues of lines’ and argue that this enables reflexivity with regards to what counts as ‘place’, adds legitimacy to the claim that places really do matter in research, and assists in representing places as a socio-natural phenomenon that cannot be compartmentalized or reduced to a humanist understanding of the social. I trial this methodology by drawing upon interviews and focus groups with people living in the vicinity of the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona). I use references made about lines of various kinds to create a narrative that locates Mona within the everyday lives of local residents. I conclude that this museum’s impact of is more mundane than the social transformation envisaged in the Bilbao Effect as this ‘effect’ relies upon a problematic and unexamined conception of place.

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Publication title

Qualitative Research

Volume

18

Pagination

361-379

ISSN

1468-7941

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd.

Place of publication

55 City Rd, London, EC1Y 1SP United Kingdom

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© The Author(s) 2017

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  • Open

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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