RMF2012 Abstracts

Session: Thursday 5th July (09.15 - 12.45)

Title: Ethnography and Place

Name: Les Back

Affiliation: Goldsmiths College

Abstract Details

This sessions explores the challenges and opportunities for conducting ethnographies of place today. The participants in this session offer a range of new ideas for developing forms of research notation that can represent and analyze the complexities of place. The examples in this session range from innovative ideas regarding mapping the social architecture through visualisation to olfactory surveys and multi-sensory modes of research. In addition, the session will examine the multiple ways place-branding is used and understood by people in local government, businesses and residents. Also, it will explore the global dimensions of youth homelessness.

Presentation downloads

Presenter: Emma Jackson

Young homeless people and urban space: a multi-method ethnography

The level of the session is: Accessible

Presentation details

Presenter 1

Start time: 09:15

Presentation title: Mapping urban multiculture

Author: Dr Suzanne Hall

Affiliation: London School of Economics

Presenter 2

Start time: 10:00

Presentation title: Coming to our senses

Author: Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor

Affiliation: Goldsmiths, University of London

Presenter 3

Start time: 11:15

Presentation title: 'I Love Hackney': the uses and re-appropriation of place-branding

Author: Dr Hannah Jones

Affiliation: Goldsmiths, University of London

Presenter 4

Start time: 12:00

Presentation title: Young homeless people and urban space: dis/placements, mobilities and fixity

Author: Dr Emma Jackson

Affiliation: Kings College, London