"A community with diversity of culture, wealth, resources, and living experiences": defining neighborhood in an unincorporated community.
To obtain a better understanding of how people living in an unincorporated region define their neighborhood, a long-term photovoice project was conducted. Thirty-one photovoice sessions and eight structured interviews were coded and analyzed to assess participants' neighborhood definitions. Participant's difficulties in identifying the geographic, physical and demographic characteristics of their neighborhood led them to use social interactions, place-mediated values, and civic engagement to define neighborhood.
Psychology Department, UC Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA, jsfernan@ucsc.edu.
Jesica Siham
JS
Fernández
Regina Day
RD
Langhout
D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D058992:Social Participation; D012945:Social Values; D055815:Young Adult