Carlin2017

2017-10-11T20:32:06Z

AndrewCarlin:

{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrew Carlin;
|Title=Navigating the walkways: Radical inquiries and mental maps
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Walking; Mental; Foundationalism; Public Space;
|Key=Carlin2017
|Year=2017
|Language=English
|Journal=Ethnographic Studies
|Volume=14
|Pages=24-48
|URL=https://zenodo.org/record/823092#.Wd5_ZjBrzIV
|DOI=doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.823092
|Abstract=This paper provides consideration of “mental maps” as an analytic device, and the im-
portation of foundational theorising in new disciplinary environments. “Mental maps” –
as representations, mental imagery, even a shared “mental topography” – is a popular
and readily available device with which to conceptualise how we orient to our world
(Gould & White 1974). The deployment of “mental maps” is frequent and extends be-
yond psychology (Blaut et al. 2003; Lloyd 2000; Lobben 2004; Xirogiannis et al. 2004),
as conceptualisations reliant upon mental representations and cognition theories en-
croach upon other disciplines. This does not mean that the psychologistic reductions in-
volved in the importation of mental maps as interdisciplinary work are diluted: the cog-
nitivism of mental maps is preserved in new interdisciplinary settings.
Mental maps, as “explanatory fctions” (Coulter 1979), provide cover for analysts
searching for patterns that draw together a patchwork of “data” (e.g. Matei et al. 2001).
What I suggest in this paper is that mental maps are themselves iterative of foundational-
ist approaches; that mental maps are inappropriate means to describe social organisa-
tional phenomena; that the appeal to mental maps adds unnecessary complexity to
analyses; and that mental maps work to distance the reader of analyses from the phe-
nomena that they purportedly describe.
}}

Carlin2017b

2017-10-11T19:13:02Z

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{{BibEntry
|BibType=ARTICLE
|Author(s)=Andrew P. Carlin;
|Title=Visibility and street ethnography: A lesson in pavement culture
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Coaching process; homeless; Manchester; Public Space;
|Key=Carlin2017b
|Publisher=Il Mulino
|Year=2017
|Language=English
|Month=May-August
|Journal=Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
|Volume=10
|Number=2
|Pages=287-302
|ISBN=1973-3194
|Abstract=This paper reports on observations in a public space, a pedestrian entrance/exit to the concourse of a large transit hub in Manchester, UK. Selling The Big Issue magazine involves more than a friendly personality. Successful selling requires an awareness of, and ongoing attention to, the unwritten «rules» of public space. Invited to take a turn at selling The Big Issue, and coached in embodied practices to solicit sales from passers-by, the author was instructed in the operation of a distinct «pavement culture» that was available to observation from the position of the seller.
}}

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