Experiences Of Places Flashcards
(28 cards)
Persons lived experience
Help them to form their unique perspective of the place
The attachment of people to a place
Local dialects, colloquial terms (e.g Liverpudlians - Scousers)
Extent to which people engage in a place (measure)
How they choose to be involved in their local communities, how they participate in local and national elections
Elections and voting
Voter turnout and the number of people on the electoral register in an area show different levels of community engagement
2019 general election
Voter turnout was 67.3%, big differences regionally, In Liverpool the voter turnout was lowest in areas of big cities, 62.9%, where income is low and is highest in the wealthier parts, 77.3%
Lowest voting (usually)
In areas in need of regeneration
Local council elections
Voter turnout tends to be lo, typically around 35%
Community groups
They can be storing advocates for change, usually voluntary and charities, often undertake development work in small places that may be ignored by local authorities
Who starts community groups
People who are frustrated by the growing inequality or social injustice in the place they live/work
Who are community groups
Supporting network of people who have similar interests in improving places, feel their concerns are not heard by authorities, tend to take activism and raise awareness
Example of a community group - Boluntary Actuon Shetland
Based in Lerwick, organisation that trains and supports volunteers to help with specific community needs such as befriending schemes for isolated elderly residents and providing administration support for local businesses
Sports and recreation - engagement in an area
Membership of local sports clubs and recreation societies
Communication - engagement in an area
Communication within communities makes engagement easier, through social media that can quickly raise awareness for issues, newsletters and collage websites that help people in rural communities feel a greater sense if connectedness
Length of residence - lived experince
Recently moved, language or cultural barriers can make it challenging, transient populations (students or second homeowners) differ from permanent residents, student fiction can make it challenging as they don’t care for the future of that area as much as
Age - lived experience
Young adults vs elderly, young person may see rural areas as uninteresting so feel less connected whereas elderly will find it tranquil and will want to better it
Levels of deprivation - lived experience
Feelings of powerlessness to change a place or address the levels of deprivation may create negative lived experience
Ethnicity - lived experience
Specific ethnicity groups may feel the place is disconnected from their own cultural heritage, others may have strong nationalistic feelings with a place that their perceived experiences excluding those who do not share the same ethnicity
Studentification
The process by which a place becomes heavily occupied by students
Asylum
Protection provided by the state to someone who has pled prosecution in their home country
Voting and lived experiences - 2019 general election
Voter turnout was highest in areas that had a greater percentage of people over the age of 65, higher proportion of white oeople voting (63%) than black and ethnic minority groups (52%), higher proportion of men (63%) than women voted (59%)
Conflicting ideas around regeneration
Places have a mix of people with different lived experiences
Age - conflicts on regen
Young people may be concerned for the future economy and job prospects, so are more likely to favour regeneration, older people who are retired may be less concerned with new employment opportunities and may want to preserve the look of an area so are more against regeneration for economic increase
Inequality - conflicts around regen
Reducing inequalities is one of regenerations aims, wealthy people are often socially well connected and may be able to use them to influence decisions in local regeneration projects, others may want to make sure that any regeneration projects don’t inadvertently create more inequality such as between able bodied and disabled people
Top down approach to regeneration (lead to)
Conflict