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The work of Kianicka, et al. (2006) entitled "Local and Tourists' Sense of Place" reports on a Swiss Alpine village and examines what it is that shapes the relations of individuals to a specific place and whether insiders and outsiders have different ways of relating to the same place. According to Kianicka et al. (2006) the landscapes of the Swiss Alps are transformed by the ongoing "socioeconomic, political and technological developments in the region." (p.55) The objective of this study is to examine West Ireland in terms of a sense of place.
Adrian Peace (2014) writes in the work entitled "A Sense of Place, A Place of Sense: Land and a Landscape in the West of Ireland" that the "anthropological analysis of space and place is now well established as one of the more important current concerns of the discipline." (p.495) For this reason Peace holds that the focus should be on identification of the particular themes and concepts that are the most worthy in terms of additional engagement theoretically and for the elaboration ethnographically. One theme that runs throughout the literature in this area of inquiry is that in the present "spaces and places have become the recurrent source of confrontation and conflict among economic and cultural networks, groups and classes." (Peace, 2014, p. 495)
The idea of 'contested spaces' is reported to be such that inherently possesses "distinct and analytic potential since it directly focuses on social conflicts of specific locations. Peace relates that the work of Low and Lawrence-Zuniga define contested spaces as "geographical locations where conflicts in the form of opposition, confrontation, subversion and/or resistance engage actors whose social positions are defined by differential control of resources and access to power." (2003:18 cited in Peace, 2014, p. 96) The claim of space or assignment of space inherently...
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