Abstract

Leisure scholarship that operates within traditional frames celebrates placemaking as an inherently good, participatory, and emancipatory process. In doing so, the bulk of leisure scholarship fails to account for the ways that placemaking is complicit in the historic and pervasive violences of systemic racism, settler colonialism, gentrification, and socioeconomic elitism. Working through the case of Goudies Lane, a recently place-made space in so-called Kitchener, Ontario, we demonstrate how humanist approaches to placemaking predicate erasures and perpetuations of these violences. We argue that thinking differently may allow for a more engaged, equitable scholarship that accounts for the reality that every placemaking is always already an unmaking of something, and that these unmakings perpetuate racialized and socioeconomic injustices under the guise of a collaborative, participatory process of “revitalization” and “progress.”

摘要

在传统框架内运作的休闲奖学金将场所营造视为一种固有的良好、参与性和解放性的过程。在这样做时，大部分休闲研究未能解释场所营造如何与系统性种族主义、定居者殖民主义、绅士化和社会经济精英主义的历史性和普遍性暴力行为共谋。通过古迪斯巷（Goudies Lane）的案例，这是一个最近在安大略省基奇纳（Kitchener）建造的空间，我们展示了人文主义如何处理场所营造谓词，消除和延续这些暴力。我们认为，以不同的方式思考可能会带来更投入、更公平的奖学金，这说明了这样一个现实，即每个场所营造总是已经是对某物的破坏，