placemaking. a journey, a series /  by Tara Page

A journey, what a cliché, it sounds like a pilgrimage to see the wise old Sage and all of my questions; who am I and what am I doing will be magically answered. I just don’t know any more. Maybe they will, more than likely knowing me I am just going to have more questions, and they won’t be any old Sage just me with just a little bit of navel gazing going on. Well maybe more than a little but lets hope it is just a bit shy of totally self-indulgent…

Page, T. (2019-published). a journey, a series. [Visual essay]

placemaking. a new materialist theory of pedagogy /  by Tara Page

July 2020- forthcoming. Edinburgh University Press.

‘Where are you from?’ This question often refers to someone’s birthplace, childhood home or a place that holds significance. The location that is offered in response to this question is more than a means of orientation; it is a lived place that has complex meanings that identify and are learned. The significance of place and belonging to our lives is often overlooked, yet it is key to understanding who we are, both individually and collectively. Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, this monograph will enable the reader to learn and understand how our ways of knowing and learning place and belonging are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies, and how our bodily engagements in and with the material world are intra-actions of the who with the where. The aim of this assemblage is to: explore these entanglements through vitalist accounts of matter as agentive, demonstrate the complex pedagogy between bodies, places and everyday social relations of power and to argue that place is the very experiential fact of our existence but, it is also a necessary one.

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-placemaking-hb.html

Page, T. (forthcoming 2020). Placemaking. A new materialist theory of pedagogy. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

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