The spatial practice of public engagement: 'doing' geography in the South Wales valleys

Saunders, Angharad and Moles, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-6525 2013. The spatial practice of public engagement: 'doing' geography in the South Wales valleys. Social & Cultural Geography 14 (1) , pp. 23-40. 10.1080/14649365.2012.733407

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Abstract

This paper explores the spatial practices of public engagement through the consideration of an audio walk project that took place in Ebbw Vale in the summer of 2010. In the current political climate public engagement is often seen as a universal good, a way of demonstrating the productive dialogues that exist between ‘experts’ and their manifold publics. As studies in science communication have shown, however, this is a little misleading, for the term ‘public engagement’ masks a great diversity of projects and initiatives, which vary in the degree, methods and effectiveness of their engagement. In this paper, we argue that what is missing from many of these critiques is an attentiveness to the ‘placing’ and ‘spacing’ of our public engagement practices: where we work, who we work with and how we work all affect the nature, meaning and effectiveness of public engagement. Drawing on the idea of spatial practices, this paper explores the situated doing of the Ebbw Vale audio walk project.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	public engagement; spatial practices; audio walks; place
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISSN:	1464-9365
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/46856

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