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Giving Voice To Area-Specific Qualities - PPW - 24!10!013 - As Given
Giving Voice To Area-Specific Qualities - PPW - 24!10!013 - As Given
The simultaneity of the long and the short term and the reconstruction of meaning through the analysis of daily routines
A very temporary draft of as definition Specificity: (a) Coherences and fragmentations in (b) the ways people cope with and tell about their environment (c) readable as patterns and mechanisms that both (d) organize and reveal the deeper mechanisms of the area In area B these patterns and mechanisms differ from what can be seen or analyzed in area A, although on a deeper level the same mechanisms are operative. Specificity can be conceived of as the way a city or region has specialized itself in a given area, given its history, given the specific accumulation of investments in that area and the social and spatial inequality that these investments both produce and reproduce.
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Area-specific qualities in disadvantaged neighborhoods. How to theorize these qualities as being area-specific? How to analyze and implement them in processes of urban regeneration or neighborhood work? What does this ambition means to adult education and to the legacy of voicing the voiceless?
1. My wonderment during my own path as adult educator - / neighborhood and fieldworker why investigating area specificity
Area-specific qualities in disadvantaged neighborhoods. How to theorize these qualities as being area-specific? How to analyze and implement them in processes of urban regeneration or neighborhood work? What does this ambition means to adult education and to the legacy of voicing the voiceless? 2. Reading specificity in urban everyday practices : simultaneity 3. Reading ones environment: individual approaches (going back to the interviewee); reading ones environment: collective approaches: focus- and platformgroups what to expect from it? 4. Bourdieu & Certeau 5. Q&A and Discussion
we dont hear what they simply say to us we do not really listen we do not admit the consequences of what is being said
1991- 1994 : the journey of Boabdil: intercultural exchanges between Belgian Moroccan and Spanish youngsters in Andaluca ( Jint CBWE Youth for Europe program)
1993 1998 1998 1998 1999 2000 2003 2003 2003 2007 2003 2005 2004 2003 2005 2006 2008 2009 Brussels (Molenbeek) Brussels (Vorst Anderlecht Kuregem) Ghent (Rabot Brugse Poort) Antwerp (railway station district) Rotterdam (Zevenkamp prins Alex.) Rotterdam (Tussendijken/Spangen) Dordrecht (Crabbehof/Krispijn) Leiden (Leiden Noord) Schiedam (Nieuwland) Three districts in Antwerp Lommel and other projects
2010 2015 PhD area specificity habitus and local DNA in processes of urban renewal - OASeS UA artesis design
sciences
Some examples and experiences, decisive for my own way of reading society and reading the city
we dont hear what they simply say to us we do not really listen we do not admit the consequences of what is being said
Brussels: the hotel janitor from Molenbeek (Brussels) the story and the map that could underpin his story Rotterdam: the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals two years later) story and underpinning map Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
1. My own wonderment
Some examples and experiences, decisive for my own way of reading society and reading the city
we dont hear what they simply say to us we do not really listen we do not admit the consequences of what is being said
Brussels: the hotel janitor from Molenbeek (Brussels) the story and the map that could underpin his story Rotterdam: the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals two years later) story and underpinning map Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
My own curiosity : how do we continue and even enhance local structures of social inequality - me as a social worker (samenlevingsopbouw); as a journalist, an urban researcher (OSA, urban research studio, ) - other professionals and local officials - people in the hood
1. My own wonderment
Some examples, emblematic for my own way of reading society and reading the city
Brussels: the hotel janitor from Molenbeek (Brussels) the story and the map that could underpin his story Rotterdam: the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals two years later) story and underpinning map Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
1. My own wonderment
Brussels: the hotel janitor from Molenbeek (Brussels) the story and the map that could underpin his story
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Fieldwork and social sciences: before giving voice to..., first studying what people do, where and how how come they act and behave like they do?
local skills and competencies How do people use the urban fabric Document it yourself; Present their maps to them; Make possible they design new terms (new constructs?) for their own behavior
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Some examples and experiences, decisive for my own way of reading society and reading the city
we dont hear what they simply say to us we do not really listen we do not admit the consequences of what is being said
Brussels: the hotel janitor from Molenbeek (Brussels) the story and the map that could underpin his story Rotterdam: the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals who stop it two years later) story and underpinning map Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
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the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals who stop it two years later) - where are we what are people doing what can I see them doing?
1. My own wonderment
the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals who stop it two years later) - where are we what are people doing what can I see them doing ?
The metropolitan boulevards where the city invests
1. My own wonderment
the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals who stop it two years later) - where are we what are people doing what can I see them doing ?
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The actual use of the city in two groups of inhabitants: the formal public space where the City invests (the two shopping streets being a part of the metropolitan boulevards), disappear when we take the use-patterns of both groups together (Map 4): daily use is not congruent with (and even orthogonal to) the formal organization and investments [ we live beside the city ]
the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals who stop it two years later) - where are we what are people doing what can I see them doing ?
1. My own wonderment
the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals who stop it two years later) - where are we what are people doing what can I see them doing ?
1500 - 1870 1900 1923
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the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals who stop it two years later) - where are we what are people doing what can I see them doing ?
1500 - 1870 1900 1923
Spangen Rotterdam: living beside the city ~ we have to invent our own ways
1500 - 1870
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1923
Rotterdam 1910
Actual routines playing on the stage of an older pattern Urban patterns as an actualization of a deeper (structural?) coherence
Actual urban form as ongoing lines of former investments petrification of the investments of earlier generations
De in 1943 weggebombardeerd e .huizenblokken blijven drie decennia braak liggen. De Puin wordt een heel belangrijke plek voor twee, drie generaties Delfshavenaren - een leegte als landmark in een (te) dicht bebouwd gebied!
Spangen Rotterdam: living beside the city ~ we have to invent our own ways
De noord oostelijke wijkrand tijdens de oorlogsjaren met opgespoten aarde en het botenhuis van de Roei- en Zeilvereniging "De Maas" op de voorgrond de route naar de Spaanse polder decennia lang een bevoorrecht speelgebied.
Niet becommentarieerd is de begraafplaats de plek waar de grote verkaveling van Spangen hapert (pas in 1947 komt de grond definitief vrij) en waar ook later eerder moeizaam gebouwd en gewoond kan worden.
Some examples and experiences, decisive for my own way of reading society and reading the city
we dont hear what they simply say to us we do not really listen we do not admit the consequences of what is being said
Brussels: the hotel janitor from Molenbeek (Brussels) the story and the map that could underpin his story Rotterdam: the community owned shelter for local junks (taken over by professionals two years later) story and underpinning map Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
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Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
-They stay there so silent (at the bus stop) so I dont know how to pass them.
Here (There)
We do it that way
Doing that way here Doing here that way Doing here that way we
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Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
(place-) things
Here (There)
We do it that way
Doing that way here Doing here that way Doing here that way we
Do-ings
Wordings
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Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
Here (There)
We do it that way
Is she crossing the street at the bus stop? Is she able to address her to them? Is the silence difficult or the glaring? Always the same kids?
Doing that way here Doing here that way Doing here that way we
1. My own wonderment
Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
Here (There)
We do it that way
Is she crossing the street at the bus stop? Is she able to address her to them? Is the silence difficult or the glaring? Always the same kids?
Doing that way here Doing here that way Doing here that way we
1. My own wonderment
Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
Here (There)
We do it that way
Is she crossing the street at the bus stop Is she able to address her to them
Doing that way here Doing here that way Doing here that way we
Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
1900
1960
Is she able to address her to them Is the silence difficult or the glaring Always the same kids?
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Ghent: the lady passing by the bus shelter (they stay there so silent) story and multiple maps ::: >> multiple questions ::: >>> multiple positions of the one doing research
1900
1960
Is she able to address her to them Is the silence difficult or the glaring Always the same kids?
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0.2. Focus on the meaning of the urban interaction itself and go back check again and again
Outcome: lady at the bus stop: -The people in this small hood are just all old people, (like me) - In the community house they always (like here in the hood) - When I want to see young people, I go to the Hema (in the city centre) I long for more contact, but here, in the surroundings of my home, I do not know how to deal with it.
What does policy and professionals in urban renewal do with these findings ? { Ahummm }
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What does policy and professionals in urban renewal do with these findings ? { Ahummm }
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episodes
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episodes
skills and competences (social artistic) criticizing the mere physical urban renewal questions are heard (urban gardening! local practices better understood some local competences better addressed
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Another segmentation in our attention and apperception is needed: differentiate WORD-ings, DO-ings and PlaceTHINGS Differentiate processes and discourses that put the word-INGS first; those that put the DO-ings first and those that put the Place-THINGS first Give privileged attention to processes that start with the places & things what people do / invest given the place where they live, given the things, given the life conditions, given their environment.
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Word-INGS
What we can do based upon that definition
Another segmentation in our attention and apperception is needed: differentiate WORD-ings, DO-ings and PlaceTHINGS Differentiate processes and discourses that put the word-INGS first; those that put the DO-ings first and those that put the Place-THINGS first Give privileged attention to processes that start with the places & things what people do / invest given the place where they live, given the things, given the life conditions, given their environment.
Do-INGS
What we consequently can see [ what exists]
Place - THINGS
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The result (outcome) we hope to reach What we can do based upon that definition
Another segmentation in our attention and apperception is needed: differentiate WORD-ings, DO-ings and PlaceTHINGS Differentiate processes and discourses that put the word-INGS first; those that put the DO-ings first and those that put the Place-THINGS first Give privileged attention to processes that start with the places & things what people do / invest given the place where they live, given the things, given the life conditions, given their environment.
Rabot is the poorest neighborhood in Flanders press conference 1983 All endogenous initiative flees away; programs for help and sustainment enter. [between 1983 and 1998] We see an area depending on help and sustainment [Fieldwork and interviews 1998]
We see an area depending on help and sustainment [Fieldwork and interviews 1998]
Apparent outcome: All local initiative dies Rabot becomes dependent from help programs
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Practice: All salvation comes form outside the hood local initiatives are worthless
The 1st register the world of things the apparent reality Place-THINGS
what people can tell about them selves given the things they do, in the ways they do them (More sustainable narratives and discourses)
What people can do given the place (houses, area, ) they live in; given the specific streets and squares, the specific income, the specific history the hood has
[ the apparent assumptions within ] the apparent practices & routines, skills & competences
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What we learn (x2) and what we hypothesize (x1): Local events can contain supra local information about relations, segmentations, relevant domains, specific coherence or fragmentation both socially and spatially. actual ongoing events perform and interpret long term patterns routine like actions perform unconsciously but in often very refined ways the underlying structural constraints.
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2. Modes of simultaneity and their relevance We need two gestures at once: 1. Prioritizing what people do given the place things they are living with 2. Reading those area bounded practices both in the short run* and the long** run
*Short and middle short run: their ongoing modus (as can be seen), some days, weeks, months ago ** Long run: years and decennia ago; centuries ago (Fernand Braudel !)
What we learn (x2) and what we hypothesize (x1): Local events can contain supra local information about relations, segmentations, relevant domains, specific coherence or fragmentation both socially and spatially. actual ongoing events perform and interpret long term patterns routine like actions perform unconsciously but in often very refined ways the underlying structural constraints.
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2. Modes of simultaneity and their relevance We need two gestures at once: 1. Prioritizing what people do given the place things they are living with 2. Reading those area bounded practices both in the short run* and the long** run
*Short and middle short run: their ongoing modus (as can be seen), some days, weeks, months ago ** Long run: years and decennia ago; centuries ago (Fernand Braudel !)
Reading the urban form as a petrification of investments of former generations { both Bourdieu & Giddens } Performed and interpreted in actual practices { Certeau and Bourdieu/Wacquant (93) but different }
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2. Modes of simultaneity and their relevance Reading the urban form as a petrification of investments of former generations { both Bourdieu & Giddens } Performed and interpreted in actual practices { Certeau and Bourdieu/Wacquant (93) but different }
*Short and middle short run: their ongoing modus (as can be seen), some days, weeks, months ago ** Long run: years and decennia ago; centuries ago (Fernand Braudel !)
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Why is it that the neighborhood Nieuw Ghent is situated in between those very big structures (university, hospital, plats, supermarket, )
*Short and middle short run: their ongoing modus (as can be seen), some days, weeks, months ago ** Long run: years and decennia ago; centuries ago (Fernand Braudel !)
Nieuw Ghent
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why all the negative activities and fuycntionsd came into the north sector of Ghent, since 1777 on (and earlier
*Short and middle short run: their ongoing modus (as can be seen), some days, weeks, months ago ** Long run: years and decennia ago; centuries ago (Fernand Braudel !)
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Strongest example: Marginal and poor people do not enter the city today (UNDER), as they didnt in the 18the century and probably before (LEFT).
Strongest example: Marginal and poor people do not enter the city today (UNDER), as they didnt in the 18the century and probably before (LEFT). At the De Coninck square, both trajectories meet and coexist: rich and poor (moderate and marginal; the ordinary and extraordinary) use the same urban space but do not interact = urban specificity and competence a kind of local DNA, an aspect of the deeper structure made visible but for whom and to what ends ? ]
The open land oustside the Spanish citywalls no stone buildings allowed
1911: Flanerende dagjesmensen ontmoeten een gehandicapte bedelaar aan de terrasjes van Meir
Strongest example: Marginal and poor people do not enter the city today (UNDER), as they didnt in the 18the century and probably before (LEFT). At the De Coninck square, both trajectories meet and coexist: rich and poor (moderate and marginal; the ordinary and extraordinary) use the same urban space but do not interact = urban specificity and competence a kind of local DNA, an aspect of the deeper structure made visible but for whom and to what ends ? ]
But what does it mean if the local DNA does not become a public issue ? Society itself the urban community of Antwerp should discuss what this phrase means and how it could be implemented into programs.
2001 - Foto uiterst rechts: De agenten zijn weg en daar is de vrouw weer. Daarom heeft de politie zaterdag 14 bedelaars opgepakt en vastgehouden tot de winkelende menigte weg was.
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What comes form the outside, needs to be adjusted and refined to the already existing qualities here Rich and poor (average and marginal) stay apart but share the same city Here you live alongside the city
Only a (small) group of city professionals takes it up; politicians wish not here the question it poses to the whole of Antwerp self made houses self-help group Utopia
Spangen Delfshaven
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En winkelier, Mr. Borlo, stemt assortiment wel af op wijk, op Turken en op studenten van de industrile hogeschool Heeft betere omzet
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Al het goede komt van buiten [ van de wijk hier valt niets te verwachten]
Al het goede is hier al [ bemoeienis van buiten leidt tot sociale verdringing ] 55
Upside the shopowners and some better of residents, except Mr Borlo (Carrefour)
All the good things are already here [ fear for gentrification ]
Under: the map of the soocial sector focusing (at tht time) merely only upon poor and diadvantaged groups.
Social workers speaking to participating shop owners: you are the only ones here who live in the hood and financially invest in the hood And we are the ones leaving every day at 6 p.m. societal stake: when mapped, local positions and presuppositions can be made both conscious and political dissensus.
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3. Bourdieu [ and Certeau ] on simultaneity of both the short and the long run
I choose to map the ways in which people use the city and I do that in a iterative and multiple approach. This choice is both operationally driven and theoretically driven. In this iterative mapping, I pay tribute to the very rich anthropology of the younger Bourdieu, his fieldwork and comments upon it. From 1979 on, these reflections multiply and proliferate into a universal theory . Whereas his ethnographic approach is in the 60 and 70ies is still context oriented and spatially grounded, his later sociology becomes in the a-spatial. This is most problematic in his socialization theory where he uses Piaget praxeological understanding of early childhood learning but without sufficient referring to his French Colleague (Bruno Frre). Some key insights of Bourdieus core theory should be reoriented and /or confronted to his earlier and more spatially oriented approach (Wacquant 1996; 2002; 2004).
Change in his theory about socialisation: Untill Outline spatial (world of places); afterwards learning in a world of concepts; false use of J. Piaget
Concepts in Bourdieus core theory Habitus Field (1st & 2nd version) Doxa [ Durkheimian ] Permeability of in-world and outward world Continuity and focus on that what does not change (from a humanistic perspective) specific contribution of the later Bourdieu (Weight of the World; Pascalian Meditations).
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The individual habitus is a set of durable dispositions originating in early childhood and structuring in a specific way all later interactions. This specificity is class bounded, although class (and capital) is structured in a multiple and dynamic way. This specificity operates trough ones perceptions, appreciations (judgments) and actions. What one can see, appreciate and do in a given situation, is structured by his or her durable dispositions reproducing the expected outcomes one has learned to expect (DiMaggio 1979). People are complicit in the reproduction of the inequality they live in but they are not aware of this dependence. On the contrary, they live in a illusion of freedom (Doxa) which helps the system to regenerate itself again and again, in very specific ways. Habitus and doxa are performant in creating a continuity between the specificity of individual actions and the specificity within regions of the macro-structure, although Bourdieu does not develop how these regions relate to the macro-system. Habitus can be seen as inculcated social structure (structures inculques) becoming on its turn operative, structure structurante. Both Habitus and structure (equals Field?) derive their social efficiency from ordinary and non ordinary practices, both individual and institutional actions (see three forms/modes of capital, Bourdieu 1984). But what is the collective or class habitus? Is it there, does it exist as a sociological substance? This remains a lifelong problem within Bourdieus theory :: his FIELD notion modulates again and again
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Constraints in the environment facilitate specific routines and actions but Bourdieu is never clear about the aggregation and the solidity of these actions, their sociological measure and weight. Class revolt is such an action but doing the dishes also In an 1984 het details it , and from 1993 on (the weight of the world) he seems to bother less for the consistency of his global theory.
Habitus becomes multiple (Hillier and Rooksby 2000) whit a hard (unconscious, structure driven) core and more softer and fluent layers above it. By becoming multiple, habitus can also become partially conscious a theme that Bourdieu touched superficially as he wasnt able to elaborate before dying in 2002.
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Gewenste situatie
Woorden
Routines en praktijken
Discussion
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