Out now – Trauma Informed Placemaking textbook, edited by Dr Cara Courage and Dr Anita McKeown

Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities.

It features 66 indigenous, community, artist and practitioner contributors, from 14 countries, across 36 chapters.

It can be bought direct from Routledge – and with a current launch discount – in hardback, paperback and ebook formats – link below. Journal review copies available.

The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary trauma, including trauma caused by placemakers. It introduces the potential of place and of place practitioners to heal. Offering 20 original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises across 33 first- and third-person chapters, multi-disciplinary insights are presented throughout. These are organised into four sections that lead the reader to an awareness of how trauma and healing operate in place. The book offers a first gathering of the current praxis in the field – how we can move from trauma in place to healing in place – and concludes with calls to action for the trauma-informed placemaking approach to be adopted.

This book will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested in people and places, from artists and architects, policy makers and planners, community development workers and organisations, placemakers, to local and national governments. It will appeal to the disciplines of human geography, sociology, politics, cultural studies, psychology and to placemakers, planners and policymakers and those working in community development.

Table of Contents and to buy the book: https://www.routledge.com/Trauma-Informed-Placemaking/Courage-McKeown/p/book/9781032443102?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8pKxBhD_ARIsAPrG45lbHvWSxTrlCJYNRAN8c_mS0aqhogSoZ5DpMiN9tQYGW_sro0_GEoIaAjk5EALw_wcB

For further information and to request review copies, please contact Dr Cara Courage via cara@caracourage.net and Dr Anita McKeown, via asuintl@gmail.com.