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Race, Place, and Restoration: Exploring the Impact of Ecological Restoration Efforts on Community Sense of Place in Cincinnati

Reese, Kelsey C
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1945-7495
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1481032024955061

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2016, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Anthropology.
This paper examines how ecological restoration and redevelopment efforts impact community members’ diverse sense(s) of place in a small urban neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. The purpose of this study was to understand sense of place, with an emphasis on crucial differences between white and black residents, as well as implications for future place-making in the neighborhood. By employing sense of place and the closely related term place identity as theoretical “tools”, this thesis unveils a hidden politics of place in the context of ecological restoration, a highly normative human-ecological goal that often escapes a critical lens. Qualitative research methods including semi-structured interviews were the primary source of information for this study. Secondary methods consisted of more creative methodology such as walking interviews including photographic documentation performed by participants. Results found that current senses of place and place meanings for many white residents and community members in South Fairmount emanate from remembered personal and community engagements with the physical and social landscape of the neighborhood in the past. In contrast, current sense of place and place meanings for many black residents emanate from current engagements with the physical and social landscape of South Fairmount and the underlying structural poverty, neglect, and alienation that undermine their ability to form ties and reservoirs of memory from which to envision future landscapes.
Daniel Murphy, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
C. Jeffrey Jacobson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
96 p.
Social Research
ecological restoration; race; place; sense of place; place attachment; Cincinnati

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  • Reese, K. C. (2016). Race, Place, and Restoration: Exploring the Impact of Ecological Restoration Efforts on Community Sense of Place in Cincinnati [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1481032024955061

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Reese, Kelsey. Race, Place, and Restoration: Exploring the Impact of Ecological Restoration Efforts on Community Sense of Place in Cincinnati. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1481032024955061.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Reese, Kelsey. "Race, Place, and Restoration: Exploring the Impact of Ecological Restoration Efforts on Community Sense of Place in Cincinnati." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1481032024955061

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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