50 likes | 67 Views
This seminar explores the issues surrounding accommodation and planning for Gypsies and Travellers, including questions of community, social capital, segregation, and research co-production. It features discussions with Professor Peter Somerville, Ryan Powell, and Lisa Scullion.
E N D
ESRC Seminar Series Seminar One Conflict in space and place - accommodation and planning issues for Gypsies and Travellers Dr Jo Richardson jrichardson@dmu.ac.uk and @socialhousing 29-30 November 2012 Hugh Aston Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Contested Community • What is community? Communities of interest, communities of place and space. Local and connected. • Whose community? Bonding & bridging social capital. • Segregation and exclusion from ‘the’ community (neighbourhood planning) • Research community. Co-production of research: ‘with’ rather than ‘to’ or ‘for’. • x
Discussants • Professor Peter Somerville • Ryan Powell • Lisa Scullion