{"id":1083,"date":"2019-03-27T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:31:03","slug":"place-matters-an-immersion-experience-in-savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Place Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide-437x328.png 437w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide-564x423.png 564w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide-860x645.png 860w, https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Savannah-cover-slide.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As researchers, we have a lot of theoretical discussions about the significance of <strong>place<\/strong> and how we imbue place with meaning. A social construction of people bound together because of where they reside, work or have a history, <strong>a sense of place<\/strong> can offer many insights in our qualitative research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I attended and facilitated sessions at the Qualitative Research Consultants Association\u2019s (QRCA) annual conference in Savannah, Georgia &#8212; a city brimming with a unique sense of place.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a sociologist, researcher and member of the International Special Interest Group, I thought it was important for the QRCA&#8217;s annual conference to include a learning opportunity that would immerse us in a cultural experience beyond the architectural and culinary tours of this beautiful city. Thus \u2013 the Gullah Geechee Experience was born &#8212;&nbsp; complete with historical storyteller, authentic Gullah Geechee dishes and an entertaining and educational dinner show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I invite you to view a 4-minute peek at our immersion experience here: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 480;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/insights360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Internation-SIG_Savannah_video.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As researchers, we have a lot of theoretical discussions about the significance of place and how we imbue place with meaning. A social construction of people bound together because of where they reside, work or have a history, a sense of place can offer many insights in our qualitative research. Recently, I attended and facilitated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[55,51,54,53,52],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alicias-notes","category-educating-the-marketer","tag-gullah-geechee","tag-immersion","tag-qrca","tag-savannah","tag-sense-of-place","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}