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dc.contributor.authorO'Brien, D
dc.contributor.authorStead, L
dc.contributor.authorNourse, N
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-18T15:17:51Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-23
dc.description.abstractThe deaf community in the UK has undergone major changes in recent years, which has uprooted it from its traditional foundations, the deaf club and deaf residential school. This article examines the effect of the closure of the deaf club in Bristol, a city in the South West of England, which resulted in the loss of an important community place and spaces for deaf people in the city. We discuss, with a strong focus on methodology, a community event celebrating Bristol’s deaf heritage organised by the research team which utilised archive materials, including archived actuality footage, this article draws on interview data elicited from participants in that event to explore the meanings connected to space and place in both past and present by the deaf community in Bristol. Concepts of the rhizome and the smooth and striated spaces of Deleuze and Guattari were found to be useful models with which to engage with the contemporary struggles of the deaf community for community recognition and organisation. We also suggest an online mapping application which enables the practice of rhizomatic cartography could be a way forward in preserving the deaf heritage and history of the city.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, grant number AH/M009203/1en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 23 October 2017en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14649365.2017.1392591
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/29901
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonPublisher policyen_GB
dc.rights© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
dc.subjectdeafen_GB
dc.subjectactuality footageen_GB
dc.subjectarchive researchen_GB
dc.subjectdeaf space and placeen_GB
dc.subjectsmooth spaceen_GB
dc.subjectrhizomeen_GB
dc.titleBristol Deaf Memories: archives, nostalgia and the loss of community space in the deaf community in Bristolen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn1464-9365
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalSocial and Cultural Geographyen_GB


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