2019 journal article
Assessing Residents’ Place Attachment to the Guatemalan Maya Landscape Through Mixed Methods Photo Elicitation
Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
Contributors: D. Peroff *, D. Morais n , E. Seekamp n, E. Sills n & T. Wallace n
author keywords: place identity; place dependency; Central America; tourism microentrepreneurship; land stewardship
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 6, 2020
We developed mixed methods photo elicitation to mitigate cultural and language barriers and to acquire deeper understandings of indigenous participants’ place attachment. We define mixed methods photo elicitation to integrate quantitative rankings of photos with qualitative induction of the meanings ascribed to the photos. Multidimensional scaling is used to thematically analyze the resulting photo clusters in relation to qualitative investigation of photo meanings. We also introduce a novel approach to a mixed methods joint display, which was used to visualize emerging themes and reveal how quantitative and qualitative findings are integrated. Reacting to a collection of landscape photographs endemic to rural Guatemala, indigenous farmers expressed place dependence to landscapes for economic and noneconomic reasons, and place identity for sociocultural reasons.