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(2010) Cultural studies and environmentalism, Dordrecht, Springer.
Envisioning polysemicity
generating insights into the complexity of place-based research within contested spaces
Christina A. Siry
pp. 315-321
In Implications of Sense of Place and Place-Based Education for Ecological Integrity and Cultural Sustainability in Contested Places, Steven Semken and Elizabeth Brandt explore the construct of place and suggest that place-based education can serve as a mutually advantageous transaction between people and place in contested areas. In this chapter, I extend the implications they have introduced and contend that a critical theoretical perspective is required in work with contested places and displaced people in order to recognize the multitude of complexities involved. Building from their work, I suggest using polyvocal and polysemic research in and around contested places as a means to acknowledge multidimensional intersubjective perspectives while also emphasizing connections to place.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3929-3_26
Full citation:
Siry, C. A. (2010)., Envisioning polysemicity: generating insights into the complexity of place-based research within contested spaces, in D. J. Tippins, M. P. Mueller, M. Van Eijck & J. D. Adams (eds.), Cultural studies and environmentalism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 315-321.
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