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TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Segregation and Sharing in Belfast
T2 - a PGIS approach
AU - Huck, Jonathan
AU - Whyatt, James Duncan
AU - Dixon, John
AU - Sturgeon, Brendan
AU - Hocking, Bree
AU - Davies, Gemma
AU - Jarman, Neil
AU - Bryan, Dominic
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2019 available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2018.1480930
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This article presents a novel exploratory investigation into the location and characteristics of spaces that are segregated and shared between Protestant and Catholic communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK). Focusing on a particularly segregated part of the city, this study uses state-of-the-art participatory geographic information systems (PGIS) and visualization techniques to create qualitative, bottom-up maps of segregation and sharing within the city, as experienced by the people who live there. In doing so, it identifies important and previously unreported patterns in segregation and sharing between sectarian communities, challenging normative approaches to PGIS and illustrating how alternative methods might provide deeper insights into complex social geographies such as those of segregation. Finally, the findings of this work are formulated into a set of hypotheses that can contribute to a future research agenda into segregation and sharing, both in Belfast and in other divided cities.
AB - This article presents a novel exploratory investigation into the location and characteristics of spaces that are segregated and shared between Protestant and Catholic communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK). Focusing on a particularly segregated part of the city, this study uses state-of-the-art participatory geographic information systems (PGIS) and visualization techniques to create qualitative, bottom-up maps of segregation and sharing within the city, as experienced by the people who live there. In doing so, it identifies important and previously unreported patterns in segregation and sharing between sectarian communities, challenging normative approaches to PGIS and illustrating how alternative methods might provide deeper insights into complex social geographies such as those of segregation. Finally, the findings of this work are formulated into a set of hypotheses that can contribute to a future research agenda into segregation and sharing, both in Belfast and in other divided cities.
KW - segregation
KW - sectarianism
KW - PGIS
KW - visualisation
KW - non-places
U2 - 10.1080/24694452.2018.1480930
DO - 10.1080/24694452.2018.1480930
M3 - Journal article
VL - 109
SP - 223
EP - 241
JO - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
SN - 0004-5608
IS - 1
ER -