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3. Methods: researching the affective dimensions of “left behind places” to underpin new policy approaches

2023; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/2578711x.2023.2254998

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John Tomaney,

Regional resilience and development

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Local Trust (2019) Left Behind? Understanding Communities on the Edge. London: Local Trust. https://localtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/local_trust_ocsi_left_behind_research_august_2019.pdf2 Martin R, Gardiner B, Pike A, Sunley P and Tyler P (2022) Levelling Up Left Behind Places. The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge. London: Taylor & Francis. ​https://doi.org/10.4324/97810322443413 Local Trust (2019), p 6.4 Andrew Sayer (1992) Method in Social Science. A Realist Approach. London: Routledge.5 We adapt this term from the literature on remote sensing, where ground truthing refers to the verification of image interpretation by direct observation of the ground; Michael Allaby (ed.) (2020) A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences, 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.6 Pike A, Béal V, Cauchi-Duval N, Franklin R, Kinossian N, Lang T, Leibert T, MacKinnon D, Rousseau M, Royer J, Servillo L, Tomaney J and Velthuis S (2022) “Left behind places”: A geographical etymology. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.21679727 Dewey J (1927) The Public and Its Problems, New York, NY: Henry Holt, at 206.8 Brandom R (2009) When pragmatism paints its blue on grey: Irony and the pragmatist enlightenment. In C Kautzer and E A Mendieta (eds.), Pragmatism, Nation, Race. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, at 25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1dfnt09.59 Wills J and Lake R W (eds.) (2021) The Power of Pragmatism. Knowledge Production and Social Inquiry. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11vc91310 There are historical models for this orientation to inquiry, such as the establishment of Hull House in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star, which was a focus for the study of poor neighbourhoods. This involved working with local communities to map social conditions and provide evidence for social reform; Addams J (1910) Twenty Years at Hull House. New York, NY: Macmillan; Wade L C (1967) The heritage from Chicago’s early settlement houses. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 60(4): 411–441.11 For an account of this early stage of the research, see Tomaney J, Natarajan L and Sutcliffe-Braithwate F (2021) Sacriston: Towards a deeper understanding of place. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/planning/sites/bartlett/files/sacriston_report_2021_final.pdf12 Star S L (1999) The ethnography of infrastructure. 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