Papers by Carolyn Gibbeson
Cities, 2024
This article examines the relational interactions between the professional stakeholders in the re... more This article examines the relational interactions between the professional stakeholders in the redevelopment of three historic former asylums in northern England. Each stakeholder in the redevelopment process has their own expertise, goals, opinions, and views of everyone else in the process. This relational perspective provides a counterpoint to the often atheoretical and non-critical examination of these issues. The article explores the perceptions that the stakeholders hold of themselves, each other and how this helps shape the process of historic building reuse. The empirical findings in this paper are based on semi-structured interviews with stakeholders involved in the redevelopment of three historic former asylum buildings in the north of England. It asks how the perceptions of stakeholders; of themselves, others and the process, affect the redevelopment outcome of three sites. Healey's (1992) conceptual framework of the redevelopment process is adapted to understand this situationunderstanding the interaction between owners (where identifiable), planners (including planning consultants), conservation officers and heritage practitioners. Original findings demonstrated discord between the perceptions the stakeholders held for each other and the actual actions those stakeholders took. In addition, findings also indicate that they viewed themselves as objective experts-yet the findings show that the stakeholders brought their personal experiences and bias into the discussion of historic former asylums, particularly in relation to the history of the buildings. These findings are significant for academia and practice/ policy as it paints a more nuanced picture of stakeholders involved in the process of redevelopment, challenging prevailing opinions and explores the usually assumed homogenous groups of developers (Coiacetto, 2001) and property owners, something which is lacking in the literature currently.
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Oral History, 2021
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Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2021
Research exploring place attachment, place identity and people-place relations often adopts a qua... more Research exploring place attachment, place identity and people-place relations often adopts a quantitative approach and focuses on positively perceived places with negative or ambivalent places being largely omitted. This study investigated patterns of attachment of former staff members from three conventionally stigmatised places: historic mental asylums in the north of England. Semi-structured, qualitative interviews were conducted with 16 former staff from the three sites that were in the process of being redeveloped into residential use. Firstly, the study demonstrated that strong, positive attachments were present for the former staff members, created through length of time spent working within these institutions and the sense of belonging and community experienced. Secondly, these attachments were linked to strong senses of individual identity born of the personal and career developments that these sites had offered. Thirdly, the findings expand on the literature exploring both place-protective action and negatively perceived places and demonstrate the value of employing qualitative methods in investigating these.Furthermore, the article demonstrates that strong positive place attachments can support place change as a way of preserving and retaining a place. This challenges the existing assumptions within literature concerning place-protective action, that assumes this occurs primarily in opposition to place change.
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Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 2018
This paper investigates the effect of a whole-life, or whole history, perspective on heritage and... more This paper investigates the effect of a whole-life, or whole history, perspective on heritage and redevelopment and the potential implications for urban regeneration. It examines how heritage preservation and protests to protect certain buildings are selective in their choice of history of a place and how these are valorised and used for particular goals. It uses the former Jessop Hospital, Sheffield, UK and a series of events within its history to investigate how the heritage-making process surrounding the hospital has been selective and proposes that practitioners and scholars need to understand this and the valorisation of certain historical moments as part of the urban development process. Through the Jessop Hospital case study, it examines how selective framing was formed by different stakeholders at particular points within the hospital's history and how other events and moments were ignored by that framing. This case study approach considers what this means more widely for heritage redevelopment and how this might impact on developers, urban regeneration practitioners and scholars.
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International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 2010
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Agricultural shows are long established key events and the highlight of the farming calendar. The... more Agricultural shows are long established key events and the highlight of the farming calendar. They are a space to display livestock, mechanical, technological and skills innovations, with many visitors attending these events on an annual basis. They are characterised as places of ritual, engrained within rural society. As with all gatherings of people, agricultural shows allow for new ties to be formed and existing relationships strengthened. These events remain a significant platform, a place in society, a 'community hub' for farming families to connect with likeminded people. Despite their multifaceted significance, agricultural events remain relatively understudied in the literature. This chapter explores the 'familial' relationships which exist within the context of agricultural events, how these events act as a conduit for (farming) families to connect, develop a sense of belonging and affinity within an 'extended' family network and to therefore, develop the concept of 'families of choice'.
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