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I am interested in seeing whether the focus of GIScience studies have shifted over the last few decades from being more local or regional in scale towards global. My assumption is that due to the availability and accessibility of global datasets (e.g. user generated data) and technical advancements that make it possible to analyse these datasets triggered a shift in geographic focus.
In a recent review of OpenStreetMap related publications, we found that 6.5% of analyzed publications had a global focus [1] . I was wondering if there are similar review papers that are broader in scope.
I have attached the OSM map of Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka. So looking at the map, what kind of geographical questions you can ask?
To me, the following came to my mind
1. What are the places where house dwellers can walk and reach within 1 minute (600 m ?) ?
2. What is the calmest and quiet place to meditation?
Hello All my Senior person , where can i get Rajasthan State Gram Panchayat or Village Boundary Data ??
How does culture influence food choices? I am interested in studying the mutual influence of countries in food traditions, and if geographical context can influence the consumers attitude.
Can traditional foods be common / close to peoples of common ethnic origin? How food patterns develop
A graduate student has written me, "I have been tasked with ascertaining the validity of a certain 'geographer's urban legend" and I was told through some investigation that you might be the person to ask. I am trying to figure out the real story of Dr. Bill Bunge, or more specifically, did he throw an unruly student from a window"? This provocative question is both a can of worms and a minefield, and so I want to cast a wide net here is search of validation of the alleged event, if any. I also provide some additional context, recently come to light, that may or may not be relevant to the alleged event.
I am exploring via case study data, manifestations of belonging in a place-based setting. I am aware of varying conceptualisations of belonging (elective, embedded, trans-locational) but want to explore more deeply embedded notions of belonging in particular and more generally how best to make the case that the manifestations of belonging in play in a location need to be understood in order to develop meaningful public policy that improve people's lives.
I welcome views, references and key points as linked to both elements of the above statement.
Hi! I am looking for articles related to the cultural geography field and its relationship with tourism. Do you know if there is some research about it? Thank you very much :)
Wherever your chosen reading locale - beach, park bench, airplane, air-conditioned living room - make sure you’re curling up with the best books of summer 2018. From novels to short story collections, historical yarns to nonfiction titles drawn from the headlines, there’s something new for readers of all stripes to dig into this summer. Debut authors with buzzy fiction, teen activists marking a movement and historical experts populate this summer reading list for 2018.
My suggestions are (for now):
1. Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
2. The High Season by Judy Blundell
3. Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley
4. Nedoumice by Dzevad Karahasan
5. Alfir by Irfan Horozovic
6. The Missing by Agatha Christy
Do yoh have suggestions?
The relationship between territory and the culture concept.
Puede alguien recomendar estudios desde la psicología sobre la conservación de bosques nativos por las comunidades? Muchas gracias.
Traditionally, studies have been carried out on the conservation of native forests of other disciplines, other than psychology. I have found related studies in community and environmental psychology, but not about the subject that I investigate.
Thank you very much.
How do / can we appropriate technical information and know-how in construction by visual methods?
I am studying these enterprises as an attempt to understand how theoretically, these enterprises, conceptualised as occuring in developing society, differ from those occuring in western/developed ones. First, I want to contribute to the growing immigrant entrepreneural literature, and also interrogate it. On the flip side of it, the study is also a contribution to south-south migration which is often difficult to find in the migration literature.
One key objective is to examine Nigerian migrants' propensity to self employment, but also I want to explore how their activities serve as continuity, or discontinuity/break to those pursued by thei forebearers in Accra. Of course issues about operational strategies and profiling will also be explored.
I will be interested in suggestions that point to appropriate methodological strategies including sampling, data collection instruments and analyses.
The ancient port of Myos Hormos was established by the Ptolemies on the western coast of the Red Sea in Egypt. It witnessed great interaction between the Ptolemaic kingdom and later the Roman Empire and Eastern nations like India and China. However I found two sets of evidence regarding two different presumed locations of the port: one just north to the Egyptian city of Hurghada and the other north of the Egyptian city of Alqussair. Those locations are around 170 kilometers apart. Any further information on Red Sea ports will be very much appreciated
Research papers related to cultural geography to study impact of festivals on market and environment.
Although a person may belong to a specific nationality and culture, because of different factors, he /she might be exposed to a culture which is different from his/her own. However, after being exposed to the new culture, he/she may acquire a new cultural identity and somehow may feel a sense of belonging to that specific culture.
As we accumulate more and more ecological data on such conflicts, it seems that what we really lack is an understanding of the cultural contexts of many such conflicts. I'm aware of recent work by Steve Redpath and others, and am very keen to find more key sources from a variety of disciplines. My own work on croc attacks suggests that the best scientifically-informed advice based on our knowledge of croc ecology and behaviour often fails because of local beliefs about crocodiles ('were-crocodiles', fate, magical protections or curses). I'm very interested in examples of this in relation to crocodiles, particularly in Africa.
I am researching the distinct visual aesthetic qualities recognisable in paintings made in far northern Queensland, Australia. The tropical region yields sensory reactions to the wet tropic environment as texture, colour and complex patterns and forms. The motifs and symbolism embedded in the work reflects on a western understanding or misunderstanding of the special features of the tropical world, understood by Aristotle as the torrid zone; a space that he thought was dangerous for human occupation. Naturalists and explorers like Humboldt, Darwin, Wallace, Bates and Banks altered this view, which was then imaged by painters like Matisse, Rousseau and Gauguin. Northern Queensland has emerged as a site for painters to look again at the tropical aesthetic.
In the peruvian amazon reainforest, especialy in Iquitos exists an own kind of tropical painting, inspired by local myth, often painted under the hallucinogenic influence of Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) and therfore extremly colorfull (eg attachment). You can find more here:
My project is examining the art of the Big Dams and Big Dam regionalism in New Deal America. Richard Guy Wilson wrote,"A photograph by Margaret Bourke-White of spillway gate construction at the Fort Peck Dam in Montana graced the first cover Life Magazine in 1936. Dams caught the American imagination because they represented work for a depression-affected economy and the benevolent aspects of governmental planning. The dams suggested that man could alter and control his environment; they also signified the coming of age of a new source of power-hydroelectricity. Yet the dams were more than functional structures. They were symbols that observers struggled to understand." I am looking for opinion, sources, and references on the perceptions of big dams and an insight to the "struggle to understand."
I am interested in insights from studies that have looked at how local culture can be understood and built upon to enable appropriate development. My research is in the field of climate change adaptation, but I am interested in insights drawn from other disciplinary literature. I believe that understanding, and respectfully and appropriately engaging with local cultural forms is an imperative in developing effective, sustainable and culturally appropriate adaptation strategies. If planning does not take into account local cultural forms then the resultant strategies are likely to be ineffective, maladaptive and oppressive, and can lead to further disdain and distrust from local community towards the 'development sector'.
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In particular, referring to indigenous groups in Ecuador. The concepts among the peoples have changed according to historical moments and their political demands. Consequently, every concept has a very close relation with its context. Their demands have suffered some modifications, and they are different between ethnic groups as well. How do they now understand the concepts of “land” and “territory”? What are the dimensions of each one? Is it possible to talk about “land” within “territory”?
For my first year seminar, I have been teaching out of Joel Spring's Deculturalization text, one chapter of which gives a summary of the educational methods used by White Americans to pacify and "deculturalize" the various indigenous peoples. One of my lectures attempted to match each of the phases of these educational "crusades" with the overall geography of the time, namely, where the Native American tribes were currently located at the time of each educational movement. There is a fairly clear correlation, e.g., the Indian Boarding School Movement began precisely when the Eastern tribes have been effectively eliminated or exiled to Oklahoma and the only barrier to easy transport to the West Coast were the Lakota and Sioux et al.
Unfortunately, I had to piece together the actual geographical location of many of the Native American tribes during the different eras from many different sources, since there does not seem to exist an atlas that simply shows the year-by-year geographic domains -- at least, during the years between the various Indian Wars.
Considering architecture and urban fabric as a tangible product of culture, it is expected to explore the social and cultural factors of immigrant groups in which lead to urban regeneration. I believe Chinese quarters may have the potential, are there any other examples(before or after Industrial Revolution)?
For instance in Iran during the Safavid dynasty some of the Armenian of Jolfa had been made to settle in Isfahan (the capital city of the time), furthermore a certain district had been built for them. I wonder if there are such examples before or after industrial revolution.
