Abstract
The article focuses on walk-and-talk interviews, which are yet a little-used research method in Latvia. The term is used in the social sciences and humanities and is an appropriate method for gathering data in order to determine the relationship of an individual or a social group with a specific place. The method in a pilot project was used to listen to life experiences in Tūja, a village along the Baltic coast in Latvia. The study focused on social change in Tūja and the influence of the economic and political changes of the 1990s on the living conditions and lifestyle of the local inhabitants. The pilot project was conducted by the researchers from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of University of Latvia.
Highlights
Living space, or place, is a form of both physical and mental existence
One of the methods of study in this field is called the “walk-and-talk interview”, a term that is used in the social sciences and humanities and which is an appropriate method for gathering data in order to determine the relationship of an individual or social group with a specific place
The study focused on social change in Tuja and the influence of the economic and political changes of the 1990s on
Summary
Place, is a form of both physical and mental existence. A space experiences historical change, while at the same time changing our own relationship with the space. It is impossible to judge the space around us and the place where we are located as isolated from the past events associated with them – each place in a story is linked both – to an event and the chronological boundaries of this event. Places mentioned in life stories – whether event locations, projected locations or merely episodic locations – are recorded along with time [1]. Places are dynamic, contested and complex social phenomena created by the particular interaction of flows and processes such as social relationships, economics and politics operating at varying levels from the “local” to the “global” [2]
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