This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of (mis)representation, re-presentation, and resistance within place-health research and practice. The book includes practice- and research-based projects with implications and applications for practitioners (e.g. local health department epidemiologists) and academics, introducing readers to an array of new and mixed-methods within place-health research. It also introduces new conceptual and analytical place-health frameworks that more explicitly account for power—both within place making, unmaking, and remaking processes, and within the (re)production of place-health knowledges. Across six chapters, the author reports and reflects on a selection of research projects, raising key considerations in regard to place-health (mis)representation, and highlighting the value of participatory methods and processes in re-presenting—and decolonizing—spatial narratives of health. This includes an emphasis on the integration of community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles with the technological and procedural affordances of information and communication technologies (ICTs). With each chapter drawing from CBPR, decolonizing, social epidemiology, health geography, Black feminist, and critical theory orientations, the book offers an integrated call and framing for a critical examination of how geographies of “place” and health—and narratives/stories therein—are constructed, and perhaps might be de/re-constructed through inclusive and equitable research practices that center community and offer a mode of resistance for the production of place-health counternarratives. The book is intended for academic researchers and practitioners in public health and health geography fields, particularly those whose work engages social epidemiology, urban planning, and aspects of community development, and will also appeal to researchers and practitioners who use participatory, community-inclusive methods and processes in their work, especially as related to community mapping.
Author(s): Ryan J. Petteway
Series: Global Perspectives on Health Geography
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 158
City: Cham
Preface
References
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Author
Chapter 1: Refining and (Re)Defining “Place” in Health Research: Interrogating Spatial Knowledges + (Mis)Representations
Introduction
(Mis)Representation
What Is This Place? Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities in Place-Health Research
Re-Presentation
Procedural and Methodological Challenges and Opportunities: A Case for Intergenerational and Participatory Place-Health Research
Resistance
Participatory Research Geographies of Place, Health, and Embodiment: Organization of This Book
References
Chapter 2: Spatial Knowledge, Representation, + Place-Health Narratives: Youth Photovoice Perspectives on a “Food Desert”
(Mis)Representation
A Baltimore “Food Desert” Story
Re-Presentation
The Project Food for Thought Photovoice Project
Background
Photovoice Recruitment and Training
Photo Review and Discussion
Photovoice Findings: Photo Themes
Photovoice Findings: Evaluation Worksheets
City Hall Photovoice Exhibit and Postcards
Resistance
Discussion: Participatory Food Geographies as Resistance
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Placescapes + Public Housing: Toward a Critical Understanding of “Place” + “Placemaking” in Place-Based Health and Housing Strategies
(Mis)Representation
Interrogating Notions of “Place” and Health in the Projects
Re-Presentation, Pt. I
Toward a Placescape Approach: Conceptual Roots and Core Tenets
Background
Re-Presentation, Pt. II
The Placescape in Practice: An Intergenerational Study of Place, Embodiment, and Health
Background
Process + Methods
Findings
Resistance
Discussion: Participatory Placescapes as Resistance
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: The Real Limits of Imaginary Lines: A Participatory Activity Space Method for Exploring Intergenerational (Dis)Connections Between “Place” and Health
(Mis)Representation
Imaginary Lines + “Senseless Tracts?”
Re-Presentation
Participatory Activity Space Mapping of Place-Health Geographies
Background
Participatory Activity Space Mapping Process + Methods
Activity Space Mapping
Participatory GIS
Place-Domain Categorization
Participatory ASM Findings
Resistance
Discussion: Participatory Activity Space Geographies as Lines of Resistance
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Place, Health, and the Geography of Embodiment: Intergenerational Participatory Research for Representation/as Resistance in The Ville
(Mis)Representation
Contested Geographies of Place, Health, and Embodiment
Re-Presentation
Participatory Geographies of Embodiment in The Ville
Background
X-Ray Mapping Process
X-Ray Mapping Findings
Resistance
Discussion: Participatory Place-Health Geographies as Embodied Resistance
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Toward Decolonizing Place-Health Research: Placemaking, Power, and the Production of “Place”-Health Knowledge
(Mis)Representation
Placemaking and Health: Putting Power on the Map
Re-Presentation and/as Resistance
Toward Decolonizing Place-Health Knowledges, Narratives, and Representations: Place-Health Research as Placemaking
Interrogating (Mis)Representation(s)
A Praxis of Re-presentation + Resistance
On the Way To…
Conclusion
References
Index
