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Understanding cultural geography: Places and traces: Second edition
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Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces offers a comprehensive introduction to perhaps the most exciting and challenging area of human geography. By focusing on the notion of 'place' as a key means through which culture and identity is grounded, the book showcases the broad range of theories, methods and practices used within the discipline. This book not only introduces the reader to the rich and complex history of cultural geography, but also the key terms on which the discipline is built. From these insights, the book approaches place as an 'ongoing composition of traces', highlighting the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the world around us. The second edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate recent literature and up-to-date case studies. It also adopts a new seven section structure, and benefits from the addition of two new chapters: Place and Mobility, and Place and Language. Through its broad coverage of issues such as age, race, scale, nature, capitalism, and the body, the book provides valuable perspectives into the cultural relationships between people and place. Anderson gives critical insights into these important issues, helping us to understand and engage with the various places that make up our lives. Understanding Cultural Geography is an ideal text for students being introduced to the discipline through either undergraduate or postgraduate degree courses. The book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci and methodological techniques of cultural geography illuminate and make sense of the places we inhabit and contribute to. This is a timely update on a highly successful text that incorporates a vast foundation of knowledge; an invaluable book for lecturers and students.
... 1. Place is the "site" of the collision between context and culture, where place necessarily needs to be understood as more than just a point in space and more as the entanglement of location and cultural (re)production (Anderson, 2010). 2. Further to the entanglement of culture and context, place is also the site of individual subjective (re)formation and a location where place and the personal are enmeshed (Marcus, 2021). ...
... The culture/context nexus becomes representationally and materially manifest through the traces that give form to place. As Anderson (2010) argues, "places are constituted by imbroglios of traces […the] marks, residues or remnants left in place by cultural life" (p. 5). ...
Curriculum, as a policy and way of moving through educational experience, is entwined with an ongoing history of invasion in Australia and similar invader‐colonial contexts. As a result of this, the conceptual foundations of curriculum in Australia reproduce colonial epistemologies as normative modes of knowing and consideration. One way of seeing how this is possible and easily reproduced is through a consideration of how renderings and representations of “place” – the complex entanglements of lands, histories, and identit(y/ies) – mediate both how (a) invasion can be normalised as a historical, geographic, and political “placial” reality, and (b) students and teachers might experience education in and of place. Indeed, “place” is a central guiding concept in official curriculum policy just as much as place is an experienced curriculum both within the school and in the broader world. In this respect, this paper looks to unpack how the concept of place is represented in curriculum policy and the attendant assumptions and implicit discourses that this (re)produces about the experiences of people in/of invaded place. Through a look at the coming revision to the Humanities and Social Science's learning area of the Australian Curriculum, I look to how the curriculum as policy frames place as synonymous with invader place epistemically and how this mediates what students can know and themselves feel about the embodied experience of learning about/in/of place.
... Texts are acknowledged as phenomena, results and producers of complex and different meanings and effects. Defining fiction as ''spatial event'', Sheila Hones invites to consider connected spatial and temporal events proceeding and following the publications from a relational perspective (Hones, 2008(Hones, , 2014, implying that a book can affect the space where its story is settled, endowing it with new significance and identities (Anderson, 2010;Briwa, 2018). ...
... In his attempt to classify and systematize literary geographies, Anderson (2010) suggests five key questions for an assemblage approach to intertwined fictional and physical worlds, with regard to intratextual, intertextual, and extra-textual geographies. Following his line, the paper has explored the relation between narrative and space in crime fiction. ...
Scholars have been investigating detective stories and crime fiction mostly as literary works reflecting the societies that produced them and the movement from modernism to postmodernism. However, these genres have generally been neglected by literary geographers. In the attempt to fill such an epistemological vacuum, this paper examines and compare the function and importance of geography in both classic and late 20th century detective stories. Arthur Conan Doyle’s and Agatha Christie’s detective stories are compared to Mediterranean noir books by Manuel Montalbán, Andrea Camilleri and Jean Claude Izzo. While space is shown to be at the center of the investigations in the former two authors, the latter rather focus on place, that is space invested by the authors with meaning and feelings of identity and belonging. From this perspective, the article argues that detective investigations have become a narrative medium allowing the readership to explore the writer’s representation/construction of his own territorial context, or place-setting, which functions as a co-protagonist of the novel. In conclusion, the paper suggests that the emerging role of place in some of the later popular crime fiction can be interpreted as the result of writer’s sentiment of belonging and, according to Appadurai’s theory, as a literary and geographical discourse aimed at the production of locality.
... Bu yaklaşımda kültürel dönüşüm, pratikler, kültür-ekonomi ilişkisi ve kimlik gibi konular görünür değildi. Hatta bazı coğrafyacılar Sauer temelli kültürel coğrafya yaklaşımını "antika" bulmuşlar ve onu "nesne fetişizmi" olarak tanımlamışlardır (Anderson, 2015). Bu yaklaşımda insan, kültürel bir varlık ve aktör görülmesinden ziyade peyzaj üzerindeki her türlü kültürel nesne (ev, ahır, anıt, takı, çit, süsleme vb.) analizlerin odak noktasını oluşturuyordu. ...
... Yeni kültürel coğrafya içinde temsilin çok önemli yer tutması nedeniyle temsili kültürel coğrafya (representational cultural geography) (Anderson, 2015) olarak da bilinmektedir. Temsil; sembol, imaj, yazı veya görüntülerle bir olayı, olguyu, nesneyi veya yaşantıyı aktarmak, anlaşılır kılmak ve tanımlanabilir bir forma sokmaktır. ...
2000’li yıllardan önce kültürel coğrafyada temsile dayalı yaklaşım ve teoriler daha ön planda iken 2000’li yılların başından günümüze temsil ötesi teoriler daha görünür olmaya başlamıştır. Dönemsel olarak baskın bir teori ön plana çıkmasına karşın kültürel coğrafya içinde her iki yaklaşımda yaygın bir şekilde işlerliğe sahiptir. Bilindiği gibi kültürel yaşam çok farklı anlamlarla yüklü ve tek bir yaklaşımla ele alınamayacak zenginlikte bir içeriğe sahiptir. Bu nedenle sınırlı bir perspektif ve yaklaşımla ele alınması doğal olarak bu kültürel zenginliği yansıtmaya yetmeyecektir. Temsil ve temsil ötesi teoriler önemli oranda kültürel çeşitliliği daha iyi yansıtma düşüncesiyle coğrafi disipline taşınmıştır. Temsil, dünyada var olma biçimlerimizi oluşturup gerçeğe dönüştürme olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Bu gerçekliği önemli oranda dil ve söylemler yoluyla oluşturur. Çalışma boyunca temsil teorileri, temsil ötesi teori ve mekan üzerine geliştirilmiş farklı teori, paradigma yaklaşımlardan konuya yaklaşılacaktır. İlk bölümde daha çok temsil ve temsil ötesi tartışmalarının sosyal bilimler içindeki yeri irdelenecektir. İkinci bölümde daha özele inilerek temsil ve kültürel coğrafya içindeki yeri üzerine odaklanılacaktır. Üçüncü bölümü ise temsil ötesi teori(ler) kültürel coğrafya ilişkisi oluşturacak; temsil ötesi teorilerin kültürel coğrafya içinde neden son yıllarda ön plana çıktığı incelenecektir. Sonuç bölümde ise genel bir değerlendirmeye gidilecektir.
... The introduction of AI technology has placed higher demands on the role of teachers. Teachers not only need to master traditional teaching skills, but also need to be familiar with the operation and application of AI technology and be able to effectively guide students to use AI to complete tasks [53]. However, some teachers may face challenges in adapting and applying technology, especially in highly technical aspects such as data analysis and model design [54]. ...
China’s Yellow (Bohai) Sea bird habitat is an important ecological region. Its unique ecology and challenges provide rich resources for research and study. Our course design concept is supported by AI technology, and improves students’ abilities through innovative functions such as dynamic data support, personalized learning paths, immersive research and study experience, and diversified evaluation mechanisms. The course content revolves around the “human–land coordination concept”, including pre-trip thinking, research and study during the trip, and post-trip exhibition learning, covering regional cognition, remote sensing image analysis, field investigation, and protection plan display activities. ERNIE Bot participates in optimizing the learning path throughout the process. The course evaluation system starts from the three dimensions of “land to people”, “people to land”, and the “coordination of the human–land relationship”, adopts processes and final evaluation, and uses ERNIE Bot to achieve real-time monitoring, data analysis, personalized reports, and dynamic feedback, improving the objectivity and efficiency of evaluation, and helping students and teachers optimize learning and teaching. However, AI has limitations in geographical research and study, such as insufficient technical adaptability, the influence of students’ abilities and habits, and the adaptation of teachers’ role changes. To this end, optimization strategies such as improving data quality and technical platforms, strengthening student technical training, enhancing teachers’ AI application capabilities, and enriching AI functions and teaching scenarios are proposed to enhance the application effect of AI in geographical research and promote innovation in educational models and student capacity building.
... Although emphasising emotions in this paper, it is important to stress that there is no inherent contradiction between discursive and emotional approaches in geography because emotions are influenced by language, and affect and emotion need to be expressed in some way, typically by means of different forms of representation, such as text, voice and images (Skrede 2020;Pile 2010;Anderson 2015). Massey notes that our "cerebral organs work together unconsciously to coordinate inputs from the senses and to generate subjective feelings and emotional states that influence subsequent cognition and behavior" (Massey 2002, 16). ...
In this paper, we will delve into a somewhat unexplored element of urban densification - namely, people's emotional responses to physically and socially densified neighbourhoods. Undoubtedly, there is a vast amount of scholarship on the advantages of dense and compact environments over urban sprawl. While scholars tend to highlight the environmental benefits, few studies scrutinise how people living in areas marked for intense urban development respond emotionally to densification strategies. Interviews with residents from urban neighbourhoods in Oslo demonstrate that densification can evoke emotions like insecurity, fear, anger and sadness over lost homes or altered place identity. This gap in scholarship calls for stronger academic and political engagement with people's feelings about their urban surroundings, also when discussing the social dimension of sustainability.
... Idea penciptaan artifak akan sentiasa berubah-ubah mengikut keperluan hidup manusia dan tidak statik. Manakala menurut Anderson (2021). dalam Tuan (1980) artifak adalah objek yang dibuat oleh manusia berdasarkan seni dan kemahiran. ...
Abstrak: Artifak budaya adalah merupakan kompenen yang penting dalam kebudayaan masyarakat Iban di Sarawak, terutamanya dalam mencitrakan identiti bangsa. Sifatnya yang berfungsi sebagai objek yang digunakan dalam tujuan sosial, politik dan ekonomi. Kajian ini adalah bertujuan untuk membincangkan pengaruh alam sekitar dalam kebudayaan masyarakat Iban terutamanya dalam budaya mencipta benda objek budaya yang menjadi warisan dan pusaka mereka secara turun temurun. Fokus penyelidikan adalah membincangkan dan menilai inspirasi alam membentuk dalam mempengaruhi idea penciptaan artifak budayanya. Reka bentuk penyelidikan ini adalah bersifat etnografi yang memfokuskan kepada artifak budaya benda dengan menggunakan kaedah pengumpulan data melalui kerja lapangan, dokumentasi dan temubual. Hasil penyelidikan mendapati bahawa artifak Iban secara dominannya banyak dipengaruhi oleh unsur-unsur alam dalam material pembuatannya, nilai estetika seni pada artifak dan kepercayaan dalam artifak tersebut. Kepentingan penyelidikan ini adalah sebagai sebuah usaha untuk mengwujudkan satu perspektif ilmu dalam bidang material budaya peribumi di Sarawak iaitu masyarakat Iban. Abstract: Cultural artifacts are an important component in the culture of the Iban community in Sarawak, especially in portraying the identity of the nation. Its nature serves as an object used in social, political and economic purposes. This study aims to discuss the influence of the environment in the culture of the Iban community, especially in the culture of creating cultural objects that are their heritage and heritage for generations. The focus of the research is to discuss and evaluate the inspiration of the shaping nature in influencing the idea of the creation of its cultural artifacts. The design of this research is ethnographic in nature that focuses on the cultural artifacts of objects by using data collection methods through fieldwork, documentation and interviews. The results of the research found that Iban artifacts are predominantly heavily influenced by the elements of nature in their manufacturing materials, the aesthetic value of art on the artifacts and the belief in the artifacts. The importance of this research is as an effort to create a perspective of knowledge in the field of indigenous cultural materials in Sarawak, namely the Iban community. Pengenalan "Alam membentuk manusia, manusia membentuk kebudayaan". Umumnya, penyelidikan mengenai alam sekitar dalam mempengaruhi kebudayaan dan kepercayaan manusia kini bukanlah sebuah penemuan yang baharu dalam bidang antropologi dan sosiologi manusia. Pelbagai pendapat dan teori yang telah diusulkan oleh sarjana dunia dari pelbagai displin ilmu dalam membincangkan etnografi manusia yang mewujudkan ketamadunannya bermula dari alam sekitar. Manusia sejak beribu-ribu tahun yang lampau telah menggunakan alam sebagai sumber kehidupan, baik dari segi memperolehi makanan, berlindung untuk hidup, jaringan transportasi, tempat perlindungan, membentuk kebudayaan sehinggalah membawa kepada kewujudan
... Upon entering my field, and influenced by the existing literature on gaps, vague and left-over spaces, I assumed that I was to find such spaces filled with all sorts of social life that had been squeezed out of the mainstream and increasingly uneven Warsaw (Berger, 2006: 31;Saksouk-Sasso, 2013;Anderson, 2015;Tonnelat, 2008). I expected to find tiny markets there; I expected to find people, who used these spaces as restrooms, meeting places, spots to take their dog out or sell crack, as sleepover areas, sites for game scenarios for kids or hipster hangouts, the world of the subaltern and the world that exists beyond the rules of the profit-oriented capitalist city. ...
Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths.
This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been.
Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.
... Upon entering my field, and influenced by the existing literature on gaps, vague and left-over spaces, I assumed that I was to find such spaces filled with all sorts of social life that had been squeezed out of the mainstream and increasingly uneven Warsaw (Berger, 2006: 31;Saksouk-Sasso, 2013;Anderson, 2015;Tonnelat, 2008). I expected to find tiny markets there; I expected to find people, who used these spaces as restrooms, meeting places, spots to take their dog out or sell crack, as sleepover areas, sites for game scenarios for kids or hipster hangouts, the world of the subaltern and the world that exists beyond the rules of the profit-oriented capitalist city. ...
Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths.
This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been.
Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.
... Upon entering my field, and influenced by the existing literature on gaps, vague and left-over spaces, I assumed that I was to find such spaces filled with all sorts of social life that had been squeezed out of the mainstream and increasingly uneven Warsaw (Berger, 2006: 31;Saksouk-Sasso, 2013;Anderson, 2015;Tonnelat, 2008). I expected to find tiny markets there; I expected to find people, who used these spaces as restrooms, meeting places, spots to take their dog out or sell crack, as sleepover areas, sites for game scenarios for kids or hipster hangouts, the world of the subaltern and the world that exists beyond the rules of the profit-oriented capitalist city. ...
Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include increasingly authoritarian forms of government that threaten the operations and very existence of civil society groups; the importation of locally-contested conservation and environmental programmes that were designed elsewhere; and a resurgence in cultural nationalism that prescribes and normalises exclusionary nation-building myths.
This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of ‘environmentalism’ in the region. It asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been.
Arranged in three sections, with case studies from Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Serbia, this collection develops anthropological views on the processes and consequences of the politicisation of the environment. It is valuable reading for human geographers, social and cultural historians, political ecologists, social movement and government scholars, political scientists, and specialists on Europe and European Union politics.
... Within host countries, the social order is placed by the dominant group (locals) that is ascribed to the migrants ( Anderson, 2015 ). Therefore, when agreeable to the migrant, this can activate a sense of belonging by the dominant group and opens up the possibility for the migrants to feel a sense of belonging. ...
... This is perhaps not surprising, given that the word 'place' is ubiquitous; yet places are contested, multidimensional and constructed through complex relationships and histories (Cresswell, 2014). For geographers, contexts are identifiable spaces characterised through languages, customs, religions, ideologies, economies or policies, and places are the intersections of contexts and cultures (Anderson, 2015). Places are thus more than physical or geographical locations and are spaces imbued with meaning that give rise to affective bonds between people and place (Relph, 1976;Tuan, 1979Tuan, , 1990. ...
Regional and institutional contexts have been acknowledged as important to the design of entrepreneurship education (EE), yet the importance of place for entrepreneurship has so far received less attention. There is still much work to do in connecting students to places and engaging them in understanding the relationship between entrepreneurship, local communities and local economies within the EE curriculum. Taking inspiration from the notions of place-based and place-conscious learning, the paper proposes a framework for place-based EE and considers challenges for integrating place-based approaches into the EE curriculum. A case study of place-based EE at a university business school is then used to illustrate how the framework can be used to review existing curricula, as well as to reveal how an institution’s context might both facilitate and constrain opportunities for place-based learning. The paper provides a contribution by making more visible the important yet often invisible role of place in EE, while being mindful of the needs, resources and educational aims of regions and institutions.
... Durante o século XXI, com o surgimento da teoria não-representacional na geografia humana, desenvolvida pelo geógrafo Nigel Thrift em 1996(Crang, 2009, as práticas e as experiências ganharam uma imensa notabilidade na geografia (Anderson, 2009). A teoria não-representacional enfatiza o desempenho e a representação das identidades. ...
Landscape has been constructed as a fundamental element of study of Geography. In recent decades, many territories have undergone major changes. These are not only clearly visible in the landscape, such as deforestation, reconstruction of buildings or depopulation, but they also take on subtler forms, such as the loss of social relationships, identity changes and other diverse dynamics. In this context, tourism has a strong impact on the territory, on the landscape and on social relationships. Within the Portuguese territory, there are many, especially in the north of the country, which face economic, social and environmental problems, due to their geographical location, mainly in typically rural and mountainous areas. Tourism plays a fundamental role here that needs to be analyzed. This master's dissertation is mainly focused on the analysis of the transformations that took place in the landscape of Pitões das Júnias, a village in Trás-os-Montes province, located within the boundaries of the Peneda-Gerês National Park. The analysis has as its starting point a work published in 1981, by the ethnologist Manuel Viegas Guerreiro, entitled Pitões das Júnias: Esboço de monografia Etnográfica [Pitões das Júnias: Sketch of an Ethnographic Monography]. It seeks to establish a dialogue and parallel between the landscapes of this work and the current landscapes. Methodologically, a vast fieldwork was developed that included, above all, the observation of the space under study, a photographic survey, in conjunction with the photographs presented in the aforementioned monograph, inspired mainly by the method of visual comparison used by the photographer Duarte Belo. Questionnaires were also used, which were subsequently addressed to the local community and tourists. The results obtained made it possible, at first glance, to conclude that the local community recognizes the benefits that the growth of tourism has brought to the region. In the second instance, it was also possible to conclude that the transformation that took place in the landscape, especially in its buildings, is mainly due to the fact that some owners of small businesses, restaurants and local accommodation, begin to follow certain and determined market trends in which, above all, they seek other forms of income in addition to agriculture, as well as by the inhabitants who seek better living conditions and comfort, which results in the transformation (construction, rehabilitation, modernization) of the built landscape.
Cultural Ecologies of the Land. A Restless Dynamic of People and Place was published by Routledge in April 2015. The uploaded 'public full-text' document is a promotional flier giving an abstract for the book, a list of contents, and a discount code.
The book is in three parts. The four chapters in part one of the book set out the theoretical foundations of cultural ecology, integrating them with current thinking and new ideas to form an explanatory framework for our relationships with the land. A parallel story is introduced beneath the surface of the early chapters, of how infrastructure, which for much of human history underpinned our living in the land, is shaping the world to its own ends.
The parallel story of the relationship between living in the land and the development of infrastructure, which so far has been loosely formed, comes to the fore in part two, Living in the Land. It takes shape through chapters describing how our transactions with the land turn it into places to live, work, and construct stories, activities that shape our sense of who we are and where we belong. The infrastructure associated with living in the land is integral to it. The practices, knowledge and skills expressed by individuals and communities as they go about their daily activities, their routines and traditions, are part of the story. Our grandparents and the generations that preceded them lived in the land. People and places shaped each other through processes of mutual adaptation. The mode of living in the land is passing into history. Now it is infrastructure rather than ‘places’ that underpins our sense of who we are.
Regeneration is the theme of three chapters which comprise the final part of the book. Infrastructure is the environment of our making which re-makes our environment. There is a fine line between the benefits of infrastructure and the tendency to drift into dependency on it. The regulatory infrastructure that maintains the modern world is now so complex that few people question the extent to which it shapes the environment and directs our lives. The concerns of many people gravitate around how we might live sustainably, but the argument now is for regenerating affordances rather than sustaining resources. Localised, place-based regeneration has the potential to engage large numbers of people in proactive, life-affirming activities. Governance and education are arenas where tensions are played out between people-centred approaches and imposed regulatory structures, and these are examined in the final chapters.
In May 2018, two professors of practice and five students embarked upon the inaugural resurrection of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s undergraduate and graduate Geography Field Tour course. The class, once an active mainstay in the early and mid-twentieth century, had long laid dormant. The following year, the same instructors, with tripled enrollment, led the course to the Colorado Plateau. After a COVID pause, the educators paved the way to the University’s first ever faculty-led Iceland course.
Featured here are the initial two offerings of the resurrected Geography Field Tour class: 2018 within Nebraska and the southern Black Hills and 2019 focusing on the Colorado Plateau. Educational theory—including, but not limited to, the pedagogies of kindness and play and from scholars like Denial (2024), and Wyver (2019)—informed the classes.
Instructors and students engaged in an immersive experience learning about the regional human and physical geographies in, and through which, they traveled. Place learning included national parks like Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, Zion, Canyonlands, Arches, and Rocky Mountain.
Field experiential education is especially powerful, maximizing student growth professionally and personally via formal and informal lessons 24/7. In these course offerings, in addition to geography content, instructors employed a flexible curriculum for the traveling group from a comprehensive, holistic approach advancing professional, mental, physical, and community health. This was done, for example, via resilience building and leadership dexterity strengthening.
This chapter not only reflects on-site field experiential education examples in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah, but it also highlights lessons learned while resuscitating, ultimately recreating, a geography field tour course. Additionally, this work endeavors to provide other practitioners with inspiration, igniting their own experiential education planning.
Background
Physical locations play an essential yet often overlooked role in healthcare implementation processes. Implementation Science frameworks such as the Theoretical Domains Framework, the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, and the Implementation in Context framework acknowledge the importance of the physical environment, but they often treat it as a passive backdrop for change. However, from a cultural geographic perspective, spaces and places are dynamic, influencing behavior, social structures, and the acceptance of new practices. This study aims to explore how managers and emloyees develop a sense of place in a new emergency department (ED) and how these spatial dynamics influence the implementation process.
Methods
This study used a multi-sited ethnographic design, tracking the implementation process across multiple hospital locations from 2019 to 2023. Fieldwork was conducted in settings such as management meetings, micro-simulation training, and tours of the new ED construction site. A total of 53 participants, including managers, nurses, and physicians from 12 specialized departments, were purposively selected. Data were collected through ethnographic field notes (750 single-spaced pages) and semi-structured interviews averaging 39 min. Analysis was guided by situational analysis and cultural geography, integrating human and nonhuman elements. An overall inductive approach was used to develop theory from observations through analysis, applying a coding system to identify key themes related to spaces, places, traces, and sense of place.
Results
Five themes emerged regarding the development of a sense of place: (1) comfort, influenced by physical elements such as daylight and indoor climate; (2) spatial organization, affecting collaboration, workflow, and professional identity; (3) familiarity, highlighting cultural practices and equipment in fostering belonging; (4) time, where construction delays enabled deeper emotional engagement; and (5) involvement, showing that initial criticism transformed into stronger ownership through increased engagement.
Conclusion
This study highlights the importance of a sense of place during pre-implementation of new physical locations in healthcare. Factors such as comfort, spatial organization, familiarity, time, and involvement are key to participants’ development of a strong sense of place in the new ED. These insights are crucial for designing implementation processes that address both physical and emotional needs, influencing outcomes such as acceptability, adoption, and sustainability.
Cantonese use on public signage in mainland China is largely discouraged by the national language policy, yet it is visible in the linguistic landscape in some cities. This study adopts Blommeart’s (2013) ethnographic approach to linguistic landscape and looks into the valorizing of the Cantonese language in a Chinese city where Cantonese is widely spoken. It shows not only the benefits of an ethnographic approach in unveiling the various indexical meanings of the Cantonese signage, but also the mobility, complexity and unpredictability embedded in the spatial and semiotic scopes. This study aims to demonstrate that semiotic resources are subject to constant change, conflicts and competition, and that a synchronic study may fail to capture these subtle changes. It also illustrates the role of ethnography and historicity to the study of semiotic resources to achieve deeper insight into the material world with mobile resources.
The migration of Cochin Jews from Kerala to the promised land of Israel can be traced back to the 1950s. Though the population of the Jewish community in Cochin is reduced to less than ten in number today, their past cannot be erased from Kerala history, especially the ethnic life of the Malabari Jewish community. Apart from folk songs and archaeological findings, Ruby Daniel, a Malabari Jewish woman, and the renowned ethnographer Barbara C. Johnson left behind an essential source of ethnographic data to explore the social life of Jew town. The significant ethnic life of the Malabari Jewish community and their attempt to claim and confirm their identity as the mainstream Cochin Jewish community continues even today among the remaining Malabari Jews in the Jew town. This article attempts to analyze the ethnic and social life of the Malabari Jewish community and the Cochin Jewish community through the auto-ethnographical narrative of Ruby Daniel.
At the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference on 26 May 2018, Amazon’s then-CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he had “saved” The Expanse (Otterson 2018). The critically beloved science fiction (SF) series had been cancelled by cable network SyFy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel) earlier that month but would now be available through—and new seasons would be produced for—Amazon Prime Video. This announcement came after fans of the series had ardently petitioned cable television networks and subscription video-on-demand services (SVODs) to license the rights to their beloved show. Amazon Prime Video was not a particularly strange destination for the resurrected space opera, though. While other niche entertainment media interests are catered for by specific SVOD services (e.g., Crunchyroll for anime, Shudder for horror and Hayu for reality television), there is currently no “SF streaming service.” After the closure of Legendary Digital’s Alpha in March 2019, the pay-TV channel SyFy remains the (obviously) most prominent “space for SF” on television—and even it could not justify keeping The Expanse on its line-up. At the time of acquiring The Expanse, Amazon Prime Video had already produced two original SF series: The Man in the High Castle and Electric Dreams, both based on stories by the renowned SF author Philip K. Dick. Meanwhile, other prominent US-based generalist SVOD services (Netflix, Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access), Apple TV+ and Disney+) have also developed a substantial stable of original SF programming, with equally substantial budgets. SF television shows and their audiences seem to have finally found a home on “mainstream,” or “first tier” (Lynch and Scarlata 2022) SVOD. But what kind of home is it, and what are the implications for the genre?
Este artículo explora los paisajes tóxicos y su importancia a la luz del Antropoceno. Comienza proponiendo el concepto de paisaje híbrido como sustituto del de paisaje cultural. A partir del materialismo relacional de la teoría del actor-red y del neovitalismo, se desarrolla una concepción renovada de paisaje más atenta a los entretejimientos entre humanos y no humanos. Así, argumentamos que el concepto de paisajes tóxicos, tomado de la arqueología de la toxicidad, va en línea con estos cuestionamientos ontológicos y resulta pertinente para los debates del Antropoceno, pues coloca el foco en las acciones humanas sin perder de vista la agencia de lo no humano. Finalizamos con un caso ilustrativo: Agbogbloshie, un centro de reciclaje y minería urbana de metales provenientes de residuos eléctricos y electrónicos ubicado en Acra, Ghana.
En écho aux travaux développés dans le cadre du tournant culturel sur la place des représentations et des imaginaires géographiques dans l’élaboration des territorialités, cet article engage une discussion d’ordre épistémologique et entend démontrer qu’il est possible de promouvoir une analyse des relations signifiantes et créatrices qui se tissent entre l’individu et le lieu. Ces relations dont la portée renvoie à une quête existentielle sont au fondement des formes d’attachements aux spatialités. Dans ce contexte, il s’agit de promouvoir une géographie poétique, sensuelle et réincarnée où l’incorporation de l’objet par le chercheur occupe une place prépondérante afin que l’intuition et la connaissance tacite soient réinvesties dans le dispositif méthodologique. L’ethnographie énactive et la participation observante sont alors considérées comme des approches méthodologiques fécondes dans la mesure où elles permettent au chercheur de saisir le caractère intime, sensible, poétique et charnel des relations qu’il entretient et, plus largement, que les individus entretiennent au lieu. Cette lecture socio-anthropologique sensible de l’habiter explore les dialectiques qui s’orchestrent entre l’individu et le lieu. Il s’agit alors de poser l’hypothèse qu’en fonction des résonances sensuelles, émotionnelles et affectives qu’engendrent ces relations au lieu les individus expérimentent l’intensité de leur présence au monde dont la dimension ontologique dépend étroitement de la profondeur des formes d’attention portées au caractère eidétique des lieux, au corps, à soi, à l’autre, à l’espace, au temps… Enfin, cette géographie à fleur de peau est présentée comme un cadre paradigmatique opportun pour un réenchantement de la démocratie participative érigé sur la reconnaissance du caractère existentialiste de l’habitabilité.
Biocultural diversity refers to the dynamic interrelationship between the Earth’s biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity. The concept draws strength from the fact that biodiversity-rich regions of the world are also rich in cultural and linguistic diversities. This volume adds to scholarship in biocultural diversity with case studies from geographical Southeast Asia. The chapters presented in the volume, based on research in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Northeast India demonstrate i) how traditional ecological calendars and calendar keepers serve as repositories of knowledge on landscapes and their resources, ii) the importance of folk medicine for healthcare in contemporary Southeast Asia, and iii) how folk names of flora and fauna serve as condensed forms of traditional knowledge on biodiversity. While highlighting the importance of customary ways of knowing and categorizing the environment in areas such as resource management, conservation, and healthcare, the chapters also demonstrate that traditional environmental knowledge and the practical skills which accompany it are not necessarily widely shared and are under constant threat. As Southeast Asia marches forward in pursuit of economic growth, it would also have to ensure that its biocultural diversity stays alive, nurturing local communities for generations to come.
In this paper, we reflect on the changes to cityscapes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus specifically on the relationships between COVID-19 communication, which took place via advertisements and messages located in urban spaces, and contemporary neoliberal politics. Particular attention is given to on-street official government public health communications and their visual impacts and wider socio-economic implications, exemplified through the lens of Belfast, Northern Ireland. We reflect on, first the transitions from pre-pandemic to pandemic streetscape signage and messages, secondly ephemerality in streetscapes under COVID-19 conditions, thirdly the rapidity of change in COVID-19 related public health signage and messages and finally structural constraints of COVID-19 related public health signage. This messaging has also made visible government responses to the pandemic and revealed official (re)emergent concerns (or lack of) for people’s health and well-being.
Kültürel coğrafya, Amerika’da Carl Sauer tarafından kurulmuş ve geleneksel kültürel coğrafya olarak adlandırılmıştır. Beşeri coğrafyanın pozitivizm eleştirisinin bir parçası olan bu yaklaşım, 1980’lerde kültürel dönüş sürecinde, ontolojik ve epistemolojik gerçeklerle eleştirilmiştir. Çünkü kültür yaklaşımları tarihin, kırsalın yorumlanmasıyla sınırlı ve çağdaş kültürel konularla ilgisizdir. Bireylerin cinsiyetleri, sosyal sınıfları açısından nasıl farklılaştırıldığını görmemişlerdir. Yeni kültürel coğrafyacılar bu eleştiriyle, geleneksel kültürel coğrafyaya meydan okumuş, konunun mülkiyeti üzerine tartışma oluşturmuştur. Bu durum, 1990’lı yıllarda kültürel coğrafyanın, daha büyük disiplinin kritik dönüşünü canlandıran, disiplin konumlandırmasını hızlandırmaya yardımcı olmuştur. Bu bağlamda çalışmanın amacı, kültürel coğrafyanın nasıl öğretilmesi gerektiğini belirlemektir. Bu çalışma, 2020-2021 eğitim ve öğretim yılında, Marmara üniversitesi coğrafya öğretmenliği bölümünde okuyan yirmi beş öğrenci ile yarı yapılandırılmış görüşmeler aracılığıyla yapılmıştır. Yapılandırılmış gömülü teori yöntemiyle yürütülen çalışmada, katılımcıların kültürel coğrafya öğretimi sürecindeki deneyimleri, yaşamlarında kültürün nasıl etkili olduğu, bununla ilgili deneyimleri ve algılarını ortaya koymak istenmiştir. Kültürel coğrafya öğretimi ile ilgili daha önce çalışma yapılmaması açısından önemlidir. Sonuç olarak, sosyal düzen verili veya doğal bir durum değildir. Bu sosyal düzen kapitalizm için oluşturulmuş, adaletsizliklerin nedeni olan güç ise kurumsallaşmıştır. Gücün kurumsallaşmasında temsiller, ataerkil yapı, kültür endüstrileri, söylemler, pratikler etkili olmuştur. Gücün eleştirilmesiyle bireyler üzerindeki olumsuz etkisi azaltılabilir ve böylece toplumsal dönüşüm sağlanabilir. Bu dönüşüm, yeni kültürel coğrafya öğretiminin yaygınlaştırılmasıyla mümkün olabilir.
Kültür, temsil, söylem ve pratikler yoluyla oluşturulmuş mekâna derinden gömülmüştür. Kültürel normlar ve mekânlar, kültürel politikalar aracılığıyla şekillenmiştir. Dolayısıyla kültürel politikalar sayesinde oluşturulan ve işleyen güç, mekânlarda kültürel eşitsizlikleri üretmiştir. 1980'lerin ortalarından itibaren sosyal bilimlerde gerçekleşen kültürel dönüş, coğrafyada mekânsal dönüşe yol açmıştır. Kültürel dönüşle toplumsal yaşamın kabul edilenleri ve yaşamlarımızı yaşama şeklimiz sorgulanmaya başlanmıştır. Bu düşünceler feminist, postyapısalcı, postmodern, postkoloniyel teoriler tarafından benimsenmiş ve derinden şekillendirilmiştir. Kültürel dönüşten bu yana, kültür ve kültürel gruplarla ilgili söylem ve pratiklerin bazı yaşamları ayrıcalıklı hale getirdiği, bazılarını da sosyal mekânda güvencesiz kıldığı daha görünür olmuştur. Bu bağlamda çalışmanın amacı, çağdaş kültürel gerçekliğimizin bir parçası olan mekân kültürünü incelemek, kültürel normları sorgulamak ve mekândaki eşitsizlikleri göstermektir. Sonuç olarak, mekânların ve yerlerin güç aracılığıyla üretildiği, marjinalleştirilen bireylerin güce maruz kaldığını göstermesi bakımından önemli bir çalışmadır.
Bu çalışmanın amacı, mekân ve yer kavramlarının düşünce tarihinde nasıl kuramsallaştırıldığı ve bunun coğrafi düşünceye etkilerini incelemektir. Günümüzde hem gündelik sözlüklerde hem de disiplin sözlüklerinde mekân ve yer, bazen birbiri yerine bazen de birbirinden tamamen farklı anlamlarda kullanılmaktadır. Coğrafya disiplininde de mekân ve yer kavramlarına dair farklı tanımlama biçimleri mevcuttur. Bu yüzden coğrafyada mekân ve yere dair farklı tanımlamaların anlaşılabilmesi için, her iki kavramın kullanılma biçimlerinin, beslendikleri epistemolojik gelenekleri analiz etmek elzemdir. Kavramsal, tarihsel ve teorik bir çalışma olması nedeniyle, nitel bir yöntem olan ‘metin analizi’ tekniğine başvurulmuştur. Sonuç olarak, bu çalışma mekân ve yere dair iki farklı perspektifin coğrafi düşünceye etkilerini incelemektedir. Birincisi, modern düşüncede ortaya çıkan ‘mutlak mekân’ anlayışıdır. İkincisi ise, mutlak mekân kavramına karşı fenomenologlar tarafından geliştirilen eleştirilerdir. Her iki düşünce geleneği üzerinden tartışılan mekân ve yer birbirinden ayrı olarak düşünülmüştür. Hem mutlak mekân anlayışını hem de yer yaklaşımlarının fenomenolojik boyutunun eleştirisi, genel anlamda, toplumsal mekân kavramından hareketle ortaya konulmaktadır. Bu bağlamda David Harvey ve Doreen Massey toplumsal mekân düşüncesinden hareketle mekân ve yerin ilişkisel boyutunu ön çıkarmaktadır. Bu ilişkide toplumsal bir ürün olarak mekân, yerlerin toplamını ifade eder. Yerlerin bir ‘fark/toplam’ olarak mekânı anlamlandırması uzunca bir süre göz ardı edilmiş bir olgudur.
Taking the UK Grime artist Stormzy’s performance at Glastonbury 2019 as a case study, this article investigates the tactics, technologies and processes revealed through the act of staging atmospheres. Process-based philosophies of experience, such as pluriversal design and worlding, are adopted to examine the ontologically ‘nonbinary’ perspectives that an atmosphere-led stage aesthetics invite. Methodologically, Stormzy’s headlining act produced by TAWBOX and collaborators is analyzed through the geographer Derek McCormack’s approach to speculative devices (such as balloons or stage sets) as ‘doing atmospheric things’. This includes an analysis of stage atmospheres as indeterminate ‘worlding envelopes’ and the role of atmospherics in enacting, projecting, or affirming possible worlds for Black British culture. McCormack’s proposal of atmospheric envelopment is extended into the study of theatre and performance by positioning ‘scenographics’ as a type of atmospherics. Put simply, this article offers an initial argument for considering the tactical affects of scenographics within the production of atmospherics. The article concludes with a challenge to category-based (binary) stage ontologies and argues the benefits of atmospherics as a process-based (nonbinary) approach to stage aesthetics.
In the recent past, literary critics have had varied readings of Henry Ole Kulet’s literary oeuvre from radical feminism to ecocriticism. Although some underscore Kulet’s focus on the nexus between humankind and nature, and the environmental consciousness and responsible exploitation of natural resources, the general attitude has been that the writer is a mouthpiece of the civil society and donor agents. Other critics have dwelt on selective ecocritical studies of Kulet’s novels that leave out Blossoms of the Savannah, which is greatly acclaimed for winning prestigious awards. It is the contention of this study that whereas ecological readings of Kulet’s other works of fiction has been exhausted, Blossoms of the Savannah has been neglected. The focus of this analysis is on the nexus between humankind and the ecological environment in Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah. The continued association of the novel with radical feminism with scanty or no application of the tenets of ecocriticism runs counter to its subjects. This analytical study is, therefore, a close textual reading of the primary and secondary texts while L. Buell (2005) serves as a theoretical framework for the interpretation. One major finding of the study is that its feminist content, notwithstanding Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah, occupies an essential place in ecocriticism
This paper aims to explore the place-based advertisements used in international soccer. First, it elucidates the aspects of history and myth that are used by Liverpool Football Club (LFC) to attract and encourage international supporters to visit the home ground of the club. This paper uses the author’s first-hand experience of sports-based tourism to develop a case study which advances a conceptual model highlighting the differences among local cultural practices, global brands, and locally practiced brands. Autoethnographic data is used in conjunction with advertisements from LFC analysing their rhetoric to support the claim that the myth of Anfield and Liverpool’s unique history are critical towards motivating international support of the club and sports-based tourism. This advertising of the ‘local’ ultimately allows the club to participate in a globalized market while simultaneously offering it the chance to preserve the characteristics which make it unique.
Purpose
This paper discusses the notion of authenticity and the role of local creatives in the place branding process based on a case study of Mtns Made, a brand for the creative industries in the Blue Mountains of Sydney, Australia. This paper aims to examine the development, implementation and management of a place brand from the ground-up and explore the implications for a situated place branding practice.
Design/methodology/approach
The concept of brand culture was used as a theoretical lens to view place branding. A qualitative case study approach was taken, incorporating the collection of primary and secondary documents, observation of online platforms and real-world events, field notes and personal reflection from an insider position.
Findings
The findings of this study suggest that local creatives can and have played a central role in place branding. The study also illustrates a model for place branding that centres on stakeholder participation in an ongoing process.
Originality/value
Local culture and creativity are largely viewed as assets for place branding; this paper draws attention to the agency of local creatives in the place branding process. This study offers three pillars of place brand authenticity and establishes a framework for place brand analysis based on a branding design strategy.
Struggles against eviction are key moments in the (re)production of informal housing in Brazilian cities, as they contest the uprooting and displacement of generally low-income families. While recent research has focused on displacement due to the World Cup and Olympic Games mega-events, this paper explores struggles against eviction that are less high profile, underscoring the distributed nature of evictions in processes of urban change. Drawing on long term fieldwork, this paper examines three cases of struggles against eviction in different cities in the southeast of Brazil. This comparison highlights the everyday contestations that take place across varied geo-political terrain; the morphological constraints and opportunities for collective action of building as opposed to land occupations; the punitive and cooperative state logics with which threatened communities must engage; and drawing on recent attempts in geography to combine theorisations of territory, place, network and scale, contributes to understanding the polymorphy of spatial struggles in contemporary Brazil.
Este artículo trata sobre la forma en que un grupo de jóvenes indígenas ha generado una imbricación en la que la creencia en Cristo se manifiesta por el tradicional culto evangélico,
lleno de música de alabanza y adoración, y en la que sus integrantes, a partir de sus propios gustos y estilos musicales, han creado una novedosa forma de manifestar su fe. Ésta se liga con el movimiento cultural y musical denominado etnorock; sin embargo, diverge en algunos aspectos, principalmente en aquellos que resaltan elementos religiosos de la tradición indígena que ya no les son propios como jóvenes indígenas urbanos y cristianos.
Place/territorial identity is a multifaceted research topic, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. Often identity is used as a mere tool of place/territorial promotion, without considering the social and political effects of such a promotion, in terms of mystification, spatial fetishism and the creation of place/territorial stereotypes. This contribution constitutes the introduction to the collective book titled “Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe: Discourses, Images, and Practices”, edited by the authors, whose aim was to discuss place/territorial identity representations in written and visual texts (official documents, scientific articles and books, newspapers, photographs, postcards, and other communication tools), related to well-known and lesser known European locations. Starting from an open, dynamic, relational, and participatory concept of the notion of “identity”, the contribution underlines the extreme variety of theoretical perspectives and research methods through which place/territorial identity representations can be examined. After highlighting some general theoretical and methodological reflections, comparing the Anglophone and Francophone-Italian geographic literature, the contribution first specifies the meanings attributed to the key-terms used in the book (place, territory, representation, identity), then it presents the sections and the chapters of the book, highlighting their objectives and research questions.
This chapter constitutes the conclusion to the collective book titled “Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe: Discourses, Images, and Practices”, edited by the authors. This book started from the premise that representations count a lot in the construction of place/territorial identities. The concluding chapter highlights the role of territorial identities and identity narratives/representations in fostering resilience at various scales. First, it discusses the focus on local or regional territorial identities, on the relevance of place in preserving heritage and in boosting development. Then, concerning methodology, it reveals the diversity of research material enabling the study of representations: written and oral text, and visual imagery, in face to face interaction and online. This chapter argues that issues relating to specific places/territories mature at the local scale, but they assume breadth and worldwide resonance thanks to the networks of social and economic relationships that bind people and places on the entire planet. It also underlines the need to never stop studying the identity representations of places/territories in a critical and proactive way, because it is also on them that the affirmation of a sustainable, inclusive, and participatory way of living the world depends.
In this brief response to Stuart Elden’s thought-provoking essay ‘Terrain, Politics, History’, I question whether place, one of the most ubiquitous concepts worked with by geographers, might have a place itself in studies of territory and provide another way of attending to the neglect of the materiality of territory. In raising this point, I further ask if attention should also be shifted more broadly to the terrains of social and cultural geographies. Here an extensive body of work has investigated more-than-human materialist approaches to making sense of the world and examined the agencies and role of landscape. Both lenses, I argue, could offer a great deal to theorisations of territory and its materiality, which are perhaps overlooked, within territory’s position as a concept of the subdiscipline of political geography. In sum, I posit that geography has already dealt quite significantly with the materiality of the Earth in other strands of the discipline, and this work may offer much in dialogue with efforts to materialise our thinking of territory.
Homelessness is a personal hardship and societal plight, both difficult to resolve. Struggles are motivators, and economies benefit to varying extents from their homeless: programs proliferate, architects and contractors build facilities, charities marshal resources, volunteers, and other support. Do these bureaucratized services sectors offer real assistance to homeless persons, or are these just stakeholders in the “sheltering industrial complex”? From emergency shelters to nicer “transitional housing” to even more supportive “permanent housing,” the conventional Western approach of “earning your way to housing” reifies notions of the undeserving poor. The professional social worker imposes judgement on eligibility, the manager impels compliance or turns away the needy “until they come around and start making better decisions for themselves.” (Willse, 2015). Designs support only to a limited extent the person ability to cope with crisis and stress, privacy, or sense of dignity and self-worth. Facilities “built to purpose” often inadvertently promote the view of the homeless as a marginalized group that must be controlled, managed, and made to adhere to rules. This punitive scheme has resolved neither hardship nor plight. Let us then look for norms vis-à-vis sheltering that reflect where the homeless person chooses to live. They may wake up in some temporary accommodation, but then spend their day in a park, at a clinic or jobs center, or, as is very often the case, in a public library. Why, in particular, the library? Through a combination of observational data and quantitative spatial analysis, this paper locates within three actual and model libraries eight key design and use elements rooted in Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic structure of individual agency. Through rigidly centralized and ordered, but geographically distributed units – book stacks, carrels, study rooms, and meeting spaces – the public library reinforces communal safety and cohesion while affording users personal domain, privacy, and uncoerced access to physical, educational, and social welfare services.
A literatura atual sobre ritmos urbanos divide-se entre abordagens que procuram quantificar e determinar padrões rítmicos em espaços urbanos e perspetivas qualitativas que procuram qualificar a fluidez rítmica da cidade e observar a ecologia dos ritmos humanos, sociais e urbanos. De modo a aproximar estas duas perspetivas, apresentamos o uso de geoetnografias como meio de combinar uma visão de cima com uma visão a partir do terreno que permite analisar os padrões espácio-temporais sem os reduzir a um estado de stasis. A partir de um estudo realizado entre 2012 e 2016 na área do Chiado, em Lisboa, mostramos como a criação de uma geoetnografia nos permitiu compreender os ritmos urbanos no Chiado em profundidade.
Traduction de l'ouvrage en français : Histoire politique du barbelé, Flammarion, Champs Essais
'Imagined Communities' examines the creation & function of the 'imagined communities' of nationality & the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism & printing & the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.
Le "Cours" de Saussure constitue un ouvrage clé pour quiconque s'intéresse au langage et aux langues ; il est considéré comme fondateur de la linguistique moderne. C'est là que se trouvent exprimés pour la première fois certains des concepts les plus féconds de la linguistique : oppositions binaires (langue/parole, signifiant/signifié, synchronie/diachronie), arbitraire du signe. Ces concepts seront largement affinés ou contestés, et nourriront la réflexion de générations de linguistes. Avec la reproduction de l'édition originale de 1916 établie par les élèves de Saussure d'après leurs notes, le lecteur trouvera un appareil critique complet dû à Tullio de Mauro, dont une biographie de Saussure et des notes. Les commentaires sont particulièrement instructifs, car ils font apparaître les violentes critiques qui ont suivi la publication du "Cours", ainsi que l'influence considérable qu'il a exercée et continue d'exercer. Ce livre peut être lu sans connaissances préalables en linguistique. "–Guillaume Segerer"
Geographers have never had much to say about women. A glance along the shelves of any library or bookshop, at lists of courses on offer in schools, colleges, polytechnics and universities, or at the contents lists of new books immediately reveals that only half the human race seems to be important: man and environment, man’s role in the developing world, the city as the home of man … A more charitable interpretation of this emphasis is that the term ‘man’ is used to include women. This may be so, but in itself it implies that gender differences are not significant, that it is unimportant for geography teachers and students to distinguish and differentiate between women’s and men’s beliefs, behaviour and activities in space. It is remarkable how ‘sexless’ geographical analysis is. In studies of retailing, migration, residential choice and journey-to-work patterns, for example, there has seldom been an explicit recognition of the gender of the individuals concerned, or any acknowledgement that women and men may have different interests and behaviour patterns. Differences are concealed beneath the general concern for establishing a spatial geometry and search for spatial patterns and regularities.
On Saturday mornings I am not, consciously, a geographer. I am, like so many other people of my age and lifestyle, to be found shopping with my family in my local town-centre precinct. It is not a very special place, artificially illuminated under the multi-storey car park, containing an entirely predictable collection of chain stores — W.H. Smith, Top Shop, Baxters, Boots, Safeway and others — fairly crowded with well-dressed, comfortable family consumers. The same scene could be found almost anywhere in England. Change the names of the stores and then the scene would be typical of much of western Europe and North America. Geographers might take an interest in the place because it occupies the peak rent location of the town, they might study the frontage widths or goods on offer as part of a retail study, or they might assess its impact on the pre-existing urban morphology. But I’m shopping.
Jones, M., Jones, R., Woods, M. (2004). An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics. (1st ed.) Routledge
Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilize what counts as geographical knowledge. Second, the book shows how the production of geographical knowledge is tied to politics and struggles outside as well as within the academy. In each chapter, case studies illustrate the spatiality of political practice and the politics of geographical thought. In this way Dissident Geographies reveals the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge.
Can the theoretical insights of post-racialism contribute to the development of a progressive anti-racism? Drawing on interviews with anti-racist organizations in London, this article explores the translation of the theoretical insights of post-racialism into anti-racist praxis. Theoretically informed and empirically engaged, this article argues that post-racialism faces its own set of paradoxes and practical dilemmas complicating the process of deriving post-racialist practice(s) from post-racialist theory. The article concludes that, in spite of the challenges, the powerful questions that post-racialism raises create a much needed ethico-political space for critical reflection on the concept and category of race. Ultimately, post-racialist insights may refine understandings of the discriminatory practices performed in the name of race and point towards a methodological approach of working with and against race in anti-racism.