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Monaci, Elisa. "Kitsch Landscapes: Strategies to Inhabit Artificial Natures." Athens Journal of Architecture 8, no. 3 (April 7, 2022): 295–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/aja.8-3-5.
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The article deals with the theme of artificial natures studying, above all, the scale of the domestic, as it relates to the role of nature in contemporary design. The narrative theme is at the heart of this essay as the nodal centre and theoretical starting point from which we rethink and redesign contemporary spaces. In particular, the term and concept of “kitsch” is studied, in its current guise and meaning, in order to deploy it as a tool and as a design method for new categories of project narration. Thereafter, using some artistic experiences and two architecture and landscape projects, the so-called “kitsch landscapes” act as a design counterpoint to the theoretical examination and open up the configuration of the design narrative for the domestic space, combining architecture and landscape together.
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Jorgensen, Anna, Stephen Dobson, and Catherine Heatherington. "Parkwood Springs – A fringe in time: Temporality and heritage in an urban fringe landscape." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49, no. 8 (April 13, 2017): 1867–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17704202.
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This paper aims to advance the theory and practice of landscape heritage planning, design and management, focusing especially on the question: what are the relationships between landscape narratives – the ways in which we tell the story of a landscape – and landscape heritage outcomes (landscape practice – planning, design, management – based on particular readings of the past)? The paper explores this question through a critical examination of three different narrative accounts of Parkwood Springs, an urban waste site in the city of Sheffield, UK: a conventional history, a personal experiential account, and an analysis based on the Sheffield Historic Landscape Characterisation. The critique is informed by a cross-disciplinary theoretical discussion of the ways time is conceptualized and presented in narrative, and how these conceptualizations influence future landscapes.
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Reitan, Rolf. "Teorier om dufortællinger: En blindgyde?" K&K - Kultur og Klasse 39, no. 112 (December 25, 2011): 107–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v39i112.15747.
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THEORIZING SECOND-PERSON NARRATIVES: A BACKWATER PROJECT? | In this paper Rolf Reitan proposes a closer look at three very different perspectives on second person narrative: Brian Richardson, Irene Kacandes, and Monika Fludernik have been classical references for some time, but they have never, according to Reitan, been seriously discussed. The paper begins by examining Kacandes’ intriguing concept of ‘radical narrative apostrophe’, and then discusses the three authors’ very different typological proposals. Borrowing Richardson’s idea of a Standard Form of second person narration, it returns to Butor’s La Modification to investigate the question of address (a pivotal question in Fludernik’s articles), which then leads to a strict definition of a prototypical “genre” of Standard Form narratives. Passing through conceptual landscapes of fiction, apostrophe, and postmodernism, some tricky questions concerning selfaddress,and some of Margolin’s analytic formulas, are considered. At last, by way of proposing a much needed subdivision of the Standard Form, Reitan discusses the strange narrating voice in La modification: not a narratorial voice, but a readerly voice created in the author’s writing.
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Bedyński, Wojciech. "Liminalność krajobrazu kulturowego." Politeja 16, no. 1(58) (October 31, 2019): 31–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/politeja.16.2019.58.03.
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Liminality of the Cultural Landscape
According to Tim Ingold, cultural landscape is not „land” nor „space”, but is a dweller’s narration on the reality that surrounds him or her. This narration is in permanent process, it grows with the society that lives in a certain place, parts of it die with the people that pass away. Although it is subject to individual reception, some narrations are shared by many. Therefore it is both personal and social phenomenon. This narrative landscape is full of borders and spheres that are built on symbolic values of places and objects. In traditional societies it has been well visible – one could easily distinct the narration of the forest from the narration of the village. In the modern world the landscape has gone through a major transformation, nonetheless it kept crucial mechanisms of its construction. Contemporary multi‑sited landscapes or virtual landscapes also contain borders and spheres, are individual and shared by many. This article presents recent changes in the approach to the liminality of the cultural landscape, differences that were experienced when passing from traditional to modern society. This change is particularly visible when comparing generations: new global generation (generation Y, generation Z) has a different experience of the landscape than generation of their parents and grandparents – who had grown in a still local and territorially defined places. But new landscapes do have borders and spheres, however their shape may be slightly different.
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Meier, Lars, and E. Attila Aytekin. "Transformed landscapes and a transnational identity of class: Narratives on (post-)industrial landscapes in Europe." International Sociology 34, no. 1 (November 26, 2018): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268580918812278.
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Based on 222 qualitative interviews conducted through a large ethnographic research project on transformed industrial landscapes in six countries, the main argument of the article is threefold. First, landscapes and narratives about past and present landscapes are relevant to the identity of class; second, the transformation of industrial landscapes is most emphatically expressed by nostalgia; third, the narratives are a transnationally constitutive element of class identity. The narratives of workers about the transformation and destruction of former workplaces express an identity crisis as seen in feelings of mourning and indifference. However, this does not indicate an erosion in the relevance of identity. Considering class as also having an emotional dimension, the article demonstrates that a class identity also evolves out of loss and longing. As nostalgia for a past now gone is a common narrative identity element in the research areas, it is considered as constitutive of a transnational class identity.
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Lucić, Luka, and Elizabeth Bridges. "Ecological landscape in narrative thought." Narrative Inquiry 28, no. 2 (October 19, 2018): 346–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17076.luc.
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Abstract This study explores how 16 individuals who grew up during the four-year long military siege of the city employ language to make sense of their everyday experiences in Sarajevo following the conclusion of the Bosnian War. Narrative inquiry is employed in this work to study sense-making, a psychological process based in language and situated in interaction with extant social and physical landscapes. During the study, participants wrote responses across the three narrative contexts (1) the prewar, (2) the acute war, and (3) the postwar. Data analyses examine how participants enact ecological landscape in narrative construction through varied use of prepositions across the three narrative contexts. Significantly higher use of prepositions in the acute war narrative context indicates that growing up amidst urban destruction gives rise to thought processes that draw on spatial and temporal relations in order to make sense of radical environmental changes in the landscape of war.
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Maes, Fernanda Lucia. "READING THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE THROUGH THE NARRATIVE OF LÉNÁRD SÁNDOR." Különleges Bánásmód - Interdiszciplináris folyóirat 8, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18458/kb.2022.1.63.
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The following analysis will focus on the relationship between literature and the reading of the cultural landscape. Based on the analytical descriptions of Lénárd Sándor, in his titled book Völgy a Világ Végén (1967), where the author presents, among others, the description of the houses, landscapes, and relationships between different ethnic groups and with the natives. Resulting in an analysis of physical and symbolic elements that constitute the concept of cultural landscape worked on in this analysis.
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Schweizer, Daniella, Marijke van Kuijk, Paula Meli, Luis Bernardini, and Jaboury Ghazoul. "Narratives Across Scales on Barriers and Strategies for Upscaling Forest Restoration: A Brazilian Case Study." Forests 10, no. 7 (June 26, 2019): 530. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f10070530.
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Several countries worldwide have committed to forest and landscape restoration (FLR) through ambitious pledges in numbers of hectares to be restored. As the implementation of these commitments happens within countries, different actors from global to local scales must negotiate the “what, where and how” of specific forest restoration projects. We interviewed actors at national, state and local scales to gather their narratives regarding barriers and strategies for upscaling forest restoration and compared the narratives among them and with those that prevail in the global literature on FLR. We based the local scale in four Atlantic Forest landscapes. We classified the narratives gathered according to three discourses commonly used in environmental policy arenas: (1) ecological modernization, advocating market solutions; (2) green governmentality, with its emphasis on technocratic solutions; and (3) civic environmentalism promoting governance. Brazilian legislation with its mandate of forest restoration in private lands appeared as the main restoration driver in the interviews. However, when political will for enforcement weakens, other strategies are needed. An ecological modernization narrative, around increasing funding, incentives, market and investments, prevailed in the narratives on barriers and strategies for all actors from the global to the local scales. Similarities nevertheless diminished from the global to the local scale. The narratives of national actors resembled those found in the global literature, which emphasize strategies based on increased capacity building, within a green governmentality narrative, and governance arrangements, a civic environmentalist narrative. These narratives appeared less at state scales, and were almost absent at local scales where forest restoration was perceived mostly as a costly legal mandate. Similar narratives across all actors and scales indicate that a focus on improving the economics of restoration can aid in upscaling forest restoration in Brazilian Atlantic Forest landscapes. However, discrepant narratives also show that inclusive governance spaces where the negotiation of FLR interventions can take place is key to increase trust and aid implementation.
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Goodlad, Lauren M. E. "The Ontological Work of Genre and Place: Wuthering Heights and the Case of the Occulted Landscape." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 1 (2021): 107–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150319000639.
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This essay shows how genre and place enable the “ontological reading” of narrative fiction. Such sense-making dialectics enable readers to infer the terms of existence that shape fictional worlds. World-systems thinkers have theorized the critical premise of material worlds shaped though ongoing processes of combined and uneven development. Ontological reading is a comparative practice for studying the narrative work of “figuring out” those processes—for example, through the “occulted landscapes” of Yorkshire noir. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights () can be likened to a species of crime fiction in prefiguring the “hardboiled” pull from epistemological certainty to ontological complication. Whereas David Peace's millennial Red Riding series of novels and films palimpsestically layers multiple pasts and presents, Wuthering Heights’ photomontage-like landscape airbrushes the seams of combined and uneven histories. Both narratives evoke moorland terrains conducive to a long history of woolens manufacturing reliant on the energized capital and trade flows of Atlantic slavery. Both works body forth occulted landscapes with the capacity to narrate widely: their troubling of ontological difference—between human and animal, life and death, past and present, nature and supernature—lays the ground for generically flexile stories of regional becoming. Ontological reading thus widens literary study.
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Winstanley-Chesters, Robert. "“Patriotism Begins with a Love of Courtyard”: Rescaling Charismatic Landscapes in North Korea." Tiempo devorado 2, no. 2 (June 25, 2015): 116–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.23.
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Moments of developmental commemoration seem acutely important within the political articulations of North Korea. National Tree Planting day and other days in which political institutions engage with the nation’s landscapes and topographies are seen as vital with Pyongyang’s narrative of political charisma and theatrics. Sometimes elements of these articulations and campaigns appear with a distinct local or historical focus, and whose narrative subjectivity seems somewhat removed from the grander or more contemporary political thematics.This paper seeks to engage and consider with these possibly more abstract and diffuse moments of political narrative, utilising a methodological framework supported by the work of Heonik Kwon and Byung-ho Chung and their reconsideration of Clifford Geertz and Max Weber’s analysis on the place of charisma and theatre within political interactions, by Denis Cosgrove and Noel Castree in their articulation of landscape and terrain as symbolic and socially or politically constructed and finally by recent reconfigurations of the nature and utility of the scale as process from the work of Geographers such as Neil Smith and Erik Swyngedouw.In particular the paper encounters the courtyard of a Mr Ri Song-ryong and his family and a number of other participants and terrains within North Korea’s political narratives and campaigns. With methodologies and conceptual structures in mind it analyses the substructures and transformative powers present in these political-social manifestations, assessing the impact on landscape and terrain and the utilities of scale, scaling and re-scaling in the transference of charisma from one temporality or terrain to another.
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NG, LAY SION. "The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading." F1000Research 10 (December 15, 2021): 1287. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75482.1.
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This article uncovers the gothic tropes manifest in the “rotten” food, human bodies, landscapes, and rain in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms through an eco-gothic perspective. It demonstrates how the rotten food, the disjointed bodies, the broken landscapes, and the gothic rain can be viewed in the novel as counter-narratives against the narratives of war, the military, and modern medicine. The first part of this article suggests interpreting war as a form of cannibalism by exploring the representations of rotten food and the connection between eating and killing. Next, the author focuses on how the body is fragmented both metaphorically and literally by the discourse of war, the military, and medical science. The third part uncovers the non-anthropocentric consciousness embedded within the protagonist’s narrative, followed by the gothicizing and romanticization of nature in the fourth section. Here, the protagonist’s linking of the human body to the natural landscape, the descriptions of the gothic rain, and the romanticized snow—all these, as the author argues, can be interpreted as a collective resistance against industrial, anthropocentric warfare.
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Ng, Lay Sion. "The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading." F1000Research 10 (November 23, 2022): 1287. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75482.2.
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This article uncovers the gothic tropes manifest in the “rotten” food, human bodies, landscapes, and rain in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms through an eco-gothic perspective. It demonstrates how the rotten food, the disjointed bodies, the broken landscapes, and the gothic rain can be viewed in the novel as counter-narratives against the narratives of war, the military, and modern medicine. The first part of this article suggests interpreting war as a form of cannibalism by exploring the representations of rotten food and the connection between eating and killing. Next, the author focuses on how the body is fragmented both metaphorically and literally by the discourse of war, the military, and medical science. The third part uncovers the non-anthropocentric consciousness embedded within the protagonist’s narrative, followed by the gothicizing and romanticization of nature in the fourth section. Here, the protagonist’s linking of the human body to the natural landscape, the descriptions of the gothic rain, and the romanticized snow—all these, as the author argues, can be interpreted as a collective resistance against industrial, anthropocentric warfare.
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Lucić, Luka. "Narrative Approaches to Conflict Resolution Across Technologically Mediated Landscapes." International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning 6, no. 1 (January 2016): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcbpl.2016010103.
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Young migrants across the globe increasingly interact and socialize with culturally diverse others across technologically mediated spaces. Bicultural and transnational development are becoming norms for contemporary youth as new media technology allows them to engage in interactions with diverse others across multiple cultural landscapes. What cultural tools do young migrants use to resolve conflicts with diverse peers across technologically mediated interpersonal interactions? To answer this question 44 individuals (ages 15-20) participated in a quasi-experimental workshop engaging them in the process of sense-making. During the workshop participants wrote projective narratives in response to a vignette depicting text-massage mediated interaction embedded among monocultural and bicultural groups of peers. Quantitative and qualitative data analyses focus on physical, psychological and communicative conflict resolution strategies used in narrative construction. The results indicate that immigrant youth are able to employ and coordinate varied strategies when approaching conflict resolution across culturally diverse landscapes of social interactions.
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Ferretti, Maddalena, and Sara Favargiotti. "COMMONS IN MARGINAL LANDSCAPES. Collective practices for an alternative narrative and use of common spatial resources in peripheral landscapes." Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture 19, no. 2 (January 27, 2022): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/rv-11412.
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This contribution aims to describe commons practices in marginal landscapes from the perspective of the design disciplines – landscape and urban design and architecture – as special collective forms of transfer of tangible and intangible values. Case studies in the Alps and Apennine context support the analysis. Specifically the paper investigates the role of commons to explore how these practices in urban and rural areas can be different for their relational capacity and strength, but are also complementary in enabling forms of inclusive habitat. Commons in marginal landscapes are examined through the lens of landscape design and space transformation to detect structural challenges and dynamics but also to propose an alternative narrative. These places need the innovative potential of commons to steer a necessary upgrade in the management and use of material and immaterial resources.
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Rossi, Claudio. "Conpsumptionscapes: videogame stereotypes and Latin-American cities environments. Case: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception / Uncharted 4: The Thief End." Culture & History Digital Journal 9, no. 1 (September 11, 2020): 003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2020.003.
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The consumption landscape refers to the context in which the daily basic needs of a society are determined. The small store in the neighborhood and the street market are architectural structures or urban spaces which shape the lives of cities as we know them today. Shopping centres are the evolution of these building formats and can characterize contemporary life. The exercise proposed by this article is to review the condition of the contexts of consumption in which the narrative of video games are developed through the study and selection of cases (Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception / Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End). These demonstrate that the urban landscape with which our cities are represented appears as scenarios loaded with stereotypes. The emphasis of this research is on the representation of the historical Latin American city as a spatially modelled and stereotyped territory where the narrative is contextualized. This article does not focus on how the story develops within a commercial space but instead proposes a transversal idea that the consumption contexts are landscapes determined by cultural logics where the plot occurs. Consumption landscapes are the simultaneous spatial, cultural and historical constructions that give meaning to a narrative and represent an augmented reality of our cities: extensive, immersive and suggestive, but also perverse.
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Tytarenko, T. M. "PERSONAL LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATIONS FOLLOWING THE TRAUMATIC WAR EXPERIENCE." Ukrainian Psychological Journal, no. 1 (13) (2020): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/upj.2020.1(13).13.
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The personal landscape transformations are defined as the territory of a person 's life, which has special dynamics, structural and functional characteristics, meaningful filling. In addition to specifying the landscape concept, the task was to determine the types of landscapes of combatants after returning from the war. The sample consisted of 91 combatants (higher education cadets and volunteers). We used the written narrative method of the proposed scheme, a conversation, and a focused one-on-one interview. As a result, post-traumatic combatants 'narratives consisted of war-related injuries (41.9%); family treason (24.7%); losses suffered in peace time (23.5%); other difficult life situations (9.9%). The following criteria for determining the type of landscape have been developed: meaningfulness of the past; assessment of the present; a vision of the future; value dominant. There is considered the value-semantic configuration of the individual 's life as an integral indicator of the landscape. The following types of landscapes have been identified: a) existential (differs in the unwillingness to rethink the traumatic past; the inability to assess the present adequately; the inability to construct the future; the dominant for survival); b) family (distinguished by a good understanding of the past; adequate assessment of the present; detailed construction of the future; dominant of meaningful relationships); c) service (differs from family one primarily by the criterion of dominant value – to be useful to the state, to the fight against the aggressor, and to the army); d) self-realization (differs in the main value of self-development); e) pragmatic (distinguished by the major value of career advancement). The most common landscapes are existential and family landscapes (25.0% each); in second place is landscapes of service and self-realization (17.3% each); on the third – pragmatic (13.6%). The hypothesis according to which the direct participation of military personnel in hostilities can act as a trigger for changing the personal landscape is confirmed.
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Quiling Jr., Tito R. "Altered Landscapes and Filmic Environments." Screen Bodies 4, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 96–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/screen.2019.040107.
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It’s just past 10:00 am on a humid Monday in Singapore, and the streets seemed to have settled after a workday rush. My walk from Arab Street to McNally Street was rather placid, punctuated by moments at intersections, and surrounded by people heading somewhere. Minutes later, I was looking up at the postmodern buildings of LASALLE College of the Arts—a panorama of reinforced concrete, glass, tiles, and steel gleaming under the morning sun. In cinema, spaces and landscapes are primary features. At times, the setting goes beyond the overarching narrative, as it conveys its own story. Given their impact, Stephen Heath (2016) infers that a process occurs in identifying spatial connections to the characters, since “organizing, guiding, sustaining and reestablishing the space are the factors that reveal this process.” The audience absorbs the familiar images or experiences onscreen. However, embodied objects of varying iterations contribute to how environments in films are concretized. On this note, one can ask: in what ways do filmic environments thus project narratives and discourses?
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Caine, Vera. "Narrative Beginnings: Traveling To and Within Unfamiliar Landscapes." Qualitative Health Research 20, no. 9 (April 19, 2010): 1304–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732310367500.
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Kleinschroth, Fritz, Caroline Lumosi, Amare Bantider, Yilikal Anteneh, and Caroline van Bers. "Narratives underlying research in African river basin management." Sustainability Science 16, no. 6 (October 5, 2021): 1859–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01044-4.
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AbstractRiver modifications through hydropower dams and other infrastructure have far-reaching economic, ecological and social effects that are viewed in highly contrasting ways depending on underlying narratives. As part of a Euro-African research consortium funded by the European Commission we studied pathways for sustainable river basin management in the Omo-Turkana basins in Ethiopia and Kenya. Based on a literature review, stakeholder workshops, targeted interviews and considering our own positionality, we identified underlying narratives related to (a) economic transformation and modernization, (b) indigenous rights and (c) nature conservation, which were all connected through water, energy, food and ecosystems within a (d) landscape nexus. Yet, we also identified a (e) living museum narrative suggesting that international advocacy for indigenous rights and nature conservation is a means through which Western societies want to preserve African societies in an “undeveloped” state. National governments use this narrative to silence external critique, while the tourism industry promotes it to advertise visits to pastoralist tribes. This narrative reveals powerful, yet largely ignored hindrances for collaborative projects resulting from cultural and historical biases in Euro-African collaborations. Based on our analysis, we argue that international research projects in sustainability sciences need to increase the transparency of open and hidden narratives that influence research directions and power relationships between scientific partners, also those using mostly technically-driven approaches. We emphasize that African landscapes are not to be viewed as living museums, and collaborative research should be based on fairness, respect, care, and honesty to allow for multiple narratives that underlie research.
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Kleinschroth, Fritz, Caroline Lumosi, Amare Bantider, Yilikal Anteneh, and Caroline van Bers. "Narratives underlying research in African river basin management." Sustainability Science 16, no. 6 (October 5, 2021): 1859–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01044-4.
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AbstractRiver modifications through hydropower dams and other infrastructure have far-reaching economic, ecological and social effects that are viewed in highly contrasting ways depending on underlying narratives. As part of a Euro-African research consortium funded by the European Commission we studied pathways for sustainable river basin management in the Omo-Turkana basins in Ethiopia and Kenya. Based on a literature review, stakeholder workshops, targeted interviews and considering our own positionality, we identified underlying narratives related to (a) economic transformation and modernization, (b) indigenous rights and (c) nature conservation, which were all connected through water, energy, food and ecosystems within a (d) landscape nexus. Yet, we also identified a (e) living museum narrative suggesting that international advocacy for indigenous rights and nature conservation is a means through which Western societies want to preserve African societies in an “undeveloped” state. National governments use this narrative to silence external critique, while the tourism industry promotes it to advertise visits to pastoralist tribes. This narrative reveals powerful, yet largely ignored hindrances for collaborative projects resulting from cultural and historical biases in Euro-African collaborations. Based on our analysis, we argue that international research projects in sustainability sciences need to increase the transparency of open and hidden narratives that influence research directions and power relationships between scientific partners, also those using mostly technically-driven approaches. We emphasize that African landscapes are not to be viewed as living museums, and collaborative research should be based on fairness, respect, care, and honesty to allow for multiple narratives that underlie research.
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Hockenhull, Stella. "Sublime landscapes in contemporary British horror: The Last Great Wilderness and Eden Lake." Horror Studies 1, no. 2 (November 1, 2010): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/host.1.2.207_1.
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Landscape, as distinct from setting, presents its own visual authority, particularly in the horror genre. A number of contemporary British films contain pictorial images of the landscape that are not necessarily pivotal to the narrative. By implementing an analysis of these representations in contemporary British rural horror, and drawing on the theories of romanticism and the Sublime of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with their emphasis on the spiritual aspects of nature, allows for setting as more than narrative space. It produces an affect that elicits a certain type of emotion from the viewer, who is invited to experience an intuitive response on encountering the pictorial compositions, aiding narrative meaning. This essay examines what Martin Lebebvre describes as impure or spectator landscapes in two recent films: The Last Great Wilderness (MacKenzie, 2002) and Eden Lake (Watkins, 2008), and finds visual correlations drawn from the contemporary art world. This indicates that, from a socio-cultural perspective, the twenty-first century has witnessed an emergence of Romantic and sublime vocabulary in both film and painting, which indicates the existence of, what Raymond Williams might term, a structure of feeling.
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Manioti, Nikoletta. "Circles and Landscapes." Mnemosyne 70, no. 1 (January 20, 2017): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12342106.
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Ovid’s version of Ceres’ travels in search for her daughter Proserpina inFasti4 reflects contemporary geographical views. We note an expansion of horizons that has already happened in CallimachusHymn6 compared to the HomericHymn to Demeter, but is now reaching even further as well as offering more precise information. At the same time Ovid is inspired by Callimachus’ pattern of figurative concentric circles (Achelous/Ocean, ever-flowing rivers, well of Callichorus) to create a narrative characterised by figurative and literal circles (one e.g. being Henna, Sicily, the whole world). TheFastiversion is thus Callimachean without failing to conform to the Roman character of the poem by placing Rome at the climax of the journey, and its world below Ceres’ chariot flight.
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Asamoah Ampofo, Evelyn, Vera Caine, and Jean D. Clandinin. "Exploring knowledge landscapes: A narrative inquiry of midwives’ experiences of working in diverse settings in Ghana." Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 9, no. 8 (April 24, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v9n8p36.
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Objective: This paper focuses on exploring the experiences of midwives in Ghana who have worked in diverse settings over time. It explores how midwives’ personal experiences across time, place and in diverse contexts impact their care for women during childbirth. The paper describes the forms of knowledge held by midwives. It presents how the experiences of midwives reflect their professional and personal practical knowledge landscape.Methods: Using narrative inquiry, the experiences of four midwives working in private maternity homes were explored. Being guided by the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space of temporality, sociality and place, and the concept of relational ethics, a meaningful relationship was built with participants over a period of five months. Several tape-recorded conversations were held with each participant, multiple other interactions were recorded as field notes and in a journal. Each tape-recorded conversation was transcribed and used to construct narrative accounts that reflected participants’ experiences as lived and told. Interim narrative accounts were shared with participants to ensure that the accounts reflected their experiences. Analysis: To identify resonant threads across all four narrative accounts, each account was read multiple times with intentionality and with the research objectives in mind.Results: Three distinct professional knowledge landscapes for midwives were identified. These were the professional knowledge landscape of working in rural communities, urban communities, and private maternity homes. Two concepts of knowledge: knowledge for midwives and midwives’ knowledge, were identified on each of these professional knowledge landscapes.Conclusions: Education of midwives should consciously take into consideration the different knowledge landscapes in which midwives in Ghana practice.
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O'Brien, Sheila Ruzycki, and Leonard Engel. "The Big Empty: Essays on Western Landscapes as Narrative." Western Historical Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1995): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/970231.
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Kjeldaas, Sigfrid. "Landscape and Vision in Gretel Ehrlich’s This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland." Nordlit, no. 35 (April 22, 2015): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3436.
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<p align="left">Depicting the narrator’s repeated travels to the northwestern coast of Greenland, Gretel Ehrlich’s <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><em><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">This Cold Heaven </span></em><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">aims to portray the landscapes of Greenland in a </span></span>way that frees them from the constraints of the visual ideology associated with Western culture’s idea of landscape. This, however, is no easy task in a natural environment dominated by wide and grand views that seem to invite the detached observer’s ordering vision. This article shows how Ehrlich’s text uses Inuit narratives and ontologies that share perspectives with feminist theories on space and subjectivity in order to challenge our Western modern culture’s conceptions of vision and landscape. The narrator’s experiences of dogsled travel in landscapes determined by weather, ice and light conditions create novel sensations that display and disrupt the boundaries of the physical environment as well as of Western conception of the subject. In this manner Ehrlich’s travel narrative gradually develops away from a rationalist and objectifying form of geography towards a different and more embodied perception of landscape that acknowledges the relational and dynamic nature of Greenland’s icescapes. This rewriting of landscape implies an understanding of vision as an integral part of a bodily whole, in constant interaction – or even co-constitution – with the environment.</p>
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de Laurentiis Brandão, Ana Carolina. "Visualizing EFL teacher identity (re)construction in materials design and implementation." Applied Linguistics Review 9, no. 2-3 (May 25, 2018): 249–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2016-1060.
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AbstractThis study visually explores the process of identity (re)construction experienced by a pre-service EFL teacher as she designed and implemented English activities at Brazilian state schools. The theoretical framework draws from language teacher development, and narrative concepts on professional identity, teacher knowledge and context. Visual narratives, contextualized by written and oral narratives, are analysed for their holistic-content, taking into account a critical visual approach and a narrative inquiry methodology. The pre-service EFL teacher, whose experience is the focus of this paper, developed a metaphor to describe her process of identity (re)construction: the invisible English teacher. Stories of designing and implementing her own materials, and being part of different teaching landscapes play an important role in her search for visibility as an English teacher.
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Adamczyk, Christopher Lee. "Confederate Memory in Post-Confederate Atlanta—a Prolegomena." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 20, no. 2 (May 2017): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.20.2.0139.
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ABSTRACT The landscape surrounding a memory site strongly influences how it is perceived by the people who visit it. As landscapes are prone to change over time, it is important to acknowledge the ways that such change exerts influence over visitors’ experiences. Through a historically oriented in situ investigation of Atlanta’s Civil War commemoration sites, I reconstruct a narrative from that city’s history that demonstrates how changing contexts, physical and social, can influence both the use of memory sites and the construction of future memory sites. I suggest that change in these sites’ fragmented surroundings prompted the construction of new monuments that were chiefly informed by ideological inadequacies created by transformed landscapes at older memory sites.
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John, Helen C. "Legion in a ‘Living Landscape’: Contextual Bible Study as a Disruptive Tool (Luke 8:26–39 Interpreted in Owamboland, Namibia)." Expository Times 128, no. 7 (November 25, 2016): 313–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014524616676770.
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This article offers insights into the narrative of the Gerasene Demoniac (Luke 8:26–39) from grassroots interpreters in Owamboland, Namibia. The participants’ perspectives on the ‘Living Landscape’—contextualised against a background of Owambo ethnographic data—disrupt understandings of landscapes and spirits found in Western-centric professional biblical scholarship. This illustrates the potential of Contextual Bible Study (or variants thereof) both to bring forth original interpretive insights and to capitalise on particular cultural contexts as sites of expertise.
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Hessel-Robinson, T. "Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 281–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/10.1.281.
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Weichbrodt, Elissa Yukiko. "Found or Recovered?" Religion and the Arts 22, no. 1-2 (February 16, 2018): 114–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02201006.
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Abstract In the 1880s, American artists Charles Furneaux, Joseph D. Strong, and Jules Tavernier—who later became known as the “Volcano School”—traveled to the Kingdom of Hawai‘i and produced dozens of landscapes ranging from otherworldly scenes of volcanoes to vistas of untouched, pristine beaches. While white, upper-class landowners in Hawai‘i served as the primary patrons of such paintings, the reigning monarch, King David Kalākaua, also commissioned his own sweeping landscapes from the same artists. This article focuses on the two competing narratives of paradise at work in both these paintings and writings about the Hawaiian Islands in the 1880s. “Paradise” could invoke a Romantic position, one that celebrated the landscape’s wildness and equated nature in its pure state with the lost Garden of Eden. On the other hand, Kalākaua’s commissions reflect what environmental historian Carolyn Merchant calls the Recovery Narrative: a story of humans reversing the effects of the biblical Fall by subjugating desolate and distant wilds and transforming them into fruitful lands. This article argues that Kalākaua’s presentation of “paradise” was part of a multi-pronged but ultimately failed strategy to resist American imperialism and present the Kingdom of Hawai‘i to the West as a prosperous, profitable nation.
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Rieger, Anna-Katharina. "‘Un-Central’ Landscapes of NE-Africa and W-Asia—Landscape Archaeology as a Tool for Socio-Economic History in Arid Landscapes." Land 8, no. 1 (December 22, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8010001.
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Arid regions in the Old World Dry Belt are assumed to be marginal regions, not only in ecological terms, but also economically and socially. Such views in geography, archaeology, and sociology are—despite the real limits of living in arid landscapes—partly influenced by derivates of Central Place Theory as developed for European medieval city-based economies. For other historical time periods and regions, this narrative inhibited socio-economic research with data-based and non-biased approaches. This paper aims, in two arid Graeco-Roman landscapes, to show how far approaches from landscape archaeology and social network analysis combined with the “small world phenomenon” can help to overcome a dichotomic view on core places and their areas, and understand settlement patterns and economic practices in a nuanced way. With Hauran in Southern Syria and Marmarica in NW-Egypt, I revise the concept of marginality, and look for qualitatively and spatially defined relationships between settlements, for both resource management and social organization. This ‘un-central’ perspective on arid landscapes provides insights on how arid regions functioned economically and socially due to a particular spatial concept and connection with their (scarce) resources, mainly water.
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Georgescu Paquin, Alexandra, and Aurélie Cerdan Schwitzguébel. "Analysis of Barcelona’s tourist landscape as projected in tourism promotional videos." International Journal of Tourism Cities 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 257–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijtc-03-2020-0046.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the tourist landscape as represented in Turisme de Barcelona’s YouTube tourism promotional videos, looking at the landscape’s tangible locations, symbolic and tourist assets and the protagonists in an effort to interpret its storytelling in an overtourism context. Design/methodology/approach The mixed methodology is based on a visual content analysis of promotional videos posted on the official Barcelona tourism YouTube channel. Quantitative data analysis about the assets and their localization was completed with a qualitative assessment of the way these assets are displayed to unveil the narrative they convey. Findings The results highlight that Barcelona’s projected image is mainly based on tangible heritage (especially monuments), its recognizable cityscape and its eno-gastronomic assets. This rather conventional image is geographically concentrated on the neighborhoods perceived as tourist neighborhoods. Practical implications This analysis provides a critical reflection of the actual strategy of destination management organizations and the storytelling they transmit. The findings can help to orientate their future actions and provide a method of analysis that can be repeated for other destinations. Originality/value This paper sheds new light on the use of urban landscapes in nonstatic images both as a narrative subject and as a tangible tourist space in promotional discourse.
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Houser, Heather. "Drawing the Line on Oil in Petrochemical America." Environmental Humanities 13, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 21–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8867186.
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Abstract Petrochemical America, an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts the oil industry’s transformations of US landscapes and communities. Central to this depiction is Orff’s use of the line, a form essential to visualization technique. Orff’s lines go deep rather than “look across” surfaces to tell stories of growth, fragmentation, toxicity, and displacement. Detailing the affordances of the line as a tool of atlas making and mapmaking, this article argues that Petrochemical America employs lines in ways that stage the oppositional logics at the heart of the petrochemical industry, that is, its tactical recruitment of vertical and horizontal, natural and human made, visible and invisible, proximity and dispersal, and containment and contamination. Without purporting to expose the hidden and without reproducing deterministic narratives of petrochemical dominance, Orff promotes ways of apprehending oil’s pasts, presents, and futures.
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Fields, Gary. "LANDSCAPING PALESTINE: REFLECTIONS OF ENCLOSURE IN A HISTORICAL MIRROR." International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 1 (January 14, 2010): 82a. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743809990821.
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This article examines the origins of the walled and fragmented Palestinian landscape by situating it within a context of recurrent encounters between dominant groups with territorial ambitions and less powerful subalterns focusing on the interplay of power and territorial space. The argument is that the Palestinian landscape is part of a long-standing narrative in which groups coveting territory transform the economy, demography, and culture of territorial space through the time-honored practice of enclosure. Enclosure is the exercise of force upon space by groups with territorial ambitions resulting in the remaking of landscapes. Mobilizing the institutional power of property law and the material power of the built environment, these groups reorder land ownership, use, and circulation on the landscape in an effort to consolidate systems of control over subalterns and reorganize socioeconomic life and demography in a place. This article argues that the project of state building launched by Zionists in Israel or Palestine is fundamentally an exercise of power on space similar to the making of enclosure landscapes from the past, notably, the enclosure landscape of early modern England. By exploring the contours of this pattern, this article seeks to uncover a more general meaning in the landscape of Palestine today.
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Farrell, Michelle, M. Jane Bunting, Fraser Sturt, Michael Grant, Gerard Aalbersberg, Rob Batchelor, Alex Brown, et al. "Opening the Woods: Towards a Quantification of Neolithic Clearance Around the Somerset Levels and Moors." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27, no. 2 (September 21, 2019): 271–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-019-09427-9.
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Abstract Environmental reconstructions from pollen records collected within archaeological landscapes have traditionally taken a broadly narrative approach, with few attempts made at hypothesis testing or formal assessment of uncertainty. This disjuncture between the traditional interpretive approach to palynological data and the requirement for detailed, locally specific reconstructions of the landscapes in which people lived has arguably hindered closer integration of palaeoecological and archaeological datasets in recent decades. Here we implement a fundamentally different method for reconstructing past land cover from pollen records to the landscapes of and around the Somerset Levels and Moors—the Multiple Scenario Approach (MSA)—to reconstruct land cover for a series of 200-year timeslices covering the period 4200–2000 cal BC. Modelling of both archaeological and sediment chronologies enables the integration of reconstructed changes in land cover with archaeological evidence of contemporary Neolithic human activity. The MSA reconstructions are presented as a series of land cover maps and as graphs of quantitative measures of woodland clearance tracked over time. Our reconstructions provide a more nuanced understanding of the scale and timing of Neolithic clearance than has previously been available from narrative-based interpretations of pollen data. While the archaeological record tends to promote a view of long-term continuity in terms of the persistent building of wooden structures in the wetlands, our new interpretation of the palynological data contributes a more dynamic and varying narrative. Our case study demonstrates the potential for further integration of archaeological and palynological datasets, enabling us to get closer to the landscapes in which people lived.
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Korsunsky, Alex. "Putting Workers on the Map: Agricultural Atlases and the Willamette Valley’s Hidden Labor Landscape." Western Historical Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2020): 409–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/whq/whaa112.
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Abstract Analyzing Oregon agricultural atlases from 1878 to 1958, I show that, despite these texts’ projection of impartial authority, they function to extend a discourse of natural bounty in which agricultural abundance is linked to inherent characteristics of the land, hiding the role of racialized and disenfranchised laborers in production. Using a combination of Agricultural Census data, historical and contemporary records from farmers and agricultural extension services, and GIS software, I demonstrate a method for reconstructing historical and contemporary agricultural labor landscapes, filling in—at least partially—the spatial absence of farmworkers. Using maps I have produced for a limited set of crops as a case study, alongside worker testimonies and ethnographic accounts, I argue that this sort of counter-mapping of the agricultural landscape can form the basis for an alternative spatial narrative of changing landscapes, replacing the depopulated and bountiful nature of conventional agricultural atlases with maps that reveal the agricultural landscape from a worker’s perspective that centers the hidden the toil and suffering entailed in the creation of Oregon’s agricultural bounty.
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Kelly, Dorothy, and Doris Kadish. "The Literature of Images: Narrative Landscapes from Julie to Jane Eyre." SubStance 18, no. 1 (1989): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685036.
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Hongslo, Eirin, and Tor A. Benjaminsen. "Turning Landscapes into ‘Nothing’: A Narrative on Land Reform in Namibia." Forum for Development Studies 29, no. 2 (December 2002): 321–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2002.9666210.
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Cary, Lisa J., and Stuart Reifel. "Cinematic Landscapes of Teaching: Lessons from a Narrative of Classic Film." Action in Teacher Education 27, no. 3 (October 2005): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01626620.2005.10463394.
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Corona, Guillermo Laín. "El humo dormido, de Gabriel Miró." Revue Romane / Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures 48, no. 1 (June 21, 2013): 79–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rro.48.1.04lai.
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From the beginning of his literary career, Gabriel Miró (Alicante, 1879 — Madrid, 1930) has been considered a poet in prose, a lyricist or even a stylist. Of course, one cannot ignore that Miró’s work is highly poetic, as for the beauty of his language and landscapes or for some themes easily associated with Romantic lyrical commonplaces. But this is just a superficial screen behind which other narrative qualities are hidden. Indeed, Miró seems to use lyricism to deliberately conceal the narration, somewhat as a form of subliming it. This can be best seen when analysing El humo dormido (1919), for it is one of his books that has most often been praised as lyrical, but, although not exactly a novel, it hides a strong narrative structure of apprenticeship with an allegorical political meaning.
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Fachun, Chen, and Olga Leontovich. "Tale of Two Cities: Historical Narratives in the Russian and Chinese Urban Landscapes." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 2 (May 2020): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2020.2.7.
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The present paper is part of a broader research "Language of a Big City: Media Urban Discourse in Russia and China". Its theoretical basis is situated in the contact zone between narratology, critical discourse analysis, semiotics and urban communication studies. The investigation is carried out on the example of two big non-capital cities – Volgograd and Tianjin, which represent the social processes typical of modern urban communities. The research model used for the study includes the following dimensions: 1) types of urban narratives; 2) narrator; 3) audience (reader / listener / viewer); 4) plot; 5) time; 6) space; 7) types of semiotic signs; 8) intertextual connections. The investigation proceeds from the idea about the textuality of the human mind, as well as the narrative ways of reality and identity construction. Multiple narratives can provide different urban history interpretations. Politicians use narratives to appropriate or reshape the past and the present as a common form of manipulation. A specific feature of urban historical narratives is that they do not possess fixed temporal boundaries and change due to the dynamics of urban social life. We argue that the stories that shape memories in the minds of general public are condensed versions of historical narratives based on the most intensely remembered facts, coloured with emotions and intensified by visual images, impressions and intertextual links. This idea emphasises the social responsibility of the creators of modern urban narratives in their different forms. The perspective of the research is to investigate the connection of these processes with Russian and Chinese mentality, values, logic of meaning-making and linguistic expression.
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Bender, Barbara, Sue Hamilton, and Christopher Tilley. "Leskernick: Stone Worlds; Alternative Narratives; Nested Landscapes." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63 (1997): 147–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00002413.
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The first season of an on-going project focused on Leskernick Hill, north-west Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, entailed a preliminary settlement survey and limited excavation of a stone row terminal. Leskernick comprises a western and a southern settlement situated on the lower, stony slopes of the hill and including 51 circular stone houses constructed using a variety of building techniques. Walled fields associated with these houses vary in size from 0.25–1 ha and appear to have accreted in a curvilinear fashion from a number of centres. Five smal burial mounds and a cist are associated with the southern settlement, all but one lying around the periphery of the field system. The western settlement includes ‘cairn-like’ piles of stones within and between some houses and some hut circles may have been converted into cairns. The settlements may have been built sequentially but the layout of each adheres to a coherent design suggesting a common broad phase of use. The southern settlement overlooks a stone-free plain containing a ceremonial complex.The paper presents a narrative account of the work and considers not only the form, function, and chronology of the sites at Leskernick but also seeks to explore the relationships between people and the landscape they inhabit; the prehistoric symbolic continuum from house to field to stone row etc, and to investigate the relationship between archaeology as a discourse on the past and archaeology as practice in the present. It considers how the daily process of excavation generates alternative site histories which are subsequently abandoned, forgotten, perpetuated or transformed.
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Puga, Rogério Miguel. "A Viagem de Anne Seymour Damer a Lisboa (1790-1791) e a Representação de Portugal Pitoresco, Católico e Sentimentalista como Espaço de Convalescença e Aprendizagem em Belmour (1801) e na Correspondência da Escultora." Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses/Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies, no. 27 (2018): 129–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.34134/reap.1991.208.273.
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In 1790-1791, the British sculptor Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828) travels to Lisbon for health reasons. Damer describes the picturesque city and its environs in several letters to her friends back home, and she starts her novel Belmour (1801) in the Portuguese capital. This article analyses the realistic representation of Lisbon (as a place of recovery) and Sintra (as a space of evasion and sentimental learning) – through themes and narrative strategies such as religion, health recovery, the cultural Other and ethnographic and historical landscapes – in both the author’s letters and novel, which echo several contemporary British travel narratives about Portugal.
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Cantero-Exojo, Monica. "Semiotic landscapes and discourses of protest in Barcelona: Tourism Kills." Moderna Språk 114, no. 4 (July 9, 2020): 145–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v114i4.7348.
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This paper considers how the homogeneity of the capitalist narrative of “tourism is good for the economy,” that has been sponsored and perpetuated by the official governmental institutions since the 1960’s Francoism’s desarrollismo period to present day, did not transfer its economic blessings to all social actors. On the contrary, it has generated social conflict, a border of self-interest between the institutional agencies and the local, which has elided possibilities of home-grown prosperity for the locals. The narrative of a homogeneous economic bonanza has created a fantasy that has irrevocably affected the city’s authenticity as an urban space. It has also codified its struggle under pintadas callejeras (written graffiti): “Tourism Kills” written all over the city. This declaration of confrontation presents the citizens of Barcelona with a simple metaphor that represents global mass-tourism as the equivalent of the beginning of the end for the local way of life.
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Han, Gao, and Natalia M. Solntseva. "The place of landscape in the narrative structure of Kryukov’s works." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 22, no. 1 (February 21, 2022): 95–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2022-22-1-95-98.
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The purpose of the article is to analyze the main functions of the landscape in the works of F. Kryukov. Nature in his narrative system acts as an independent object of portrayal and a toolkit for description, as the place of the character’s residence and the contemplated landscape, as an integral picture and a set of contrasting elements. The emphasis is placed on the narrative role of the landscape in the development of the author’s point of view, the structuring of the artistic space, and plot formation. Through the landscape in the novels and short stories of Kryukov, preceding the prose of M. Sholokhov, the organic essence of the Don Cossacks’ way of life, their perception of the world, characters, life, the search for new opportunities for the development of living space, the specificity of the aesthetic reflection are depicted. Nature is perceived by Kryukov as part of the picture of the world. The emphasis is made on the correspondence of the psychological states of the characters and the states of nature, the role of images of the natural world in disclosing social problems and family plots is revealed, axiological dominants in the symbolic and philosophical content of landscapes are noted, their role in the depiction of vital and mortal meanings of life is determined. The article discusses Kryukov’s description of the grave topos as a continuation of the literary tradition. A statement about the priority of the organic state of the world in Kryukov’s worldview values is put forward. The landscape in the works of Kryukov is directly related to the characteristics of the idiostyle. Particular attention is paid to the principles of depicting nature. Constant images of the landscape (steppe, the Don, forest, sky) are named, their subjective perception by the heroes and the author is noted, which brings the mythopoetic aspect to the realistic depiction of the landscape. Conclusions are drawn on the preference of a panoramic landscape to a close-up while preserving the role of detail, the combination of vertical and horizontal coordinates in nature pictures, the significance of binary characteristics in depicting the integrity of nature, the frequency of perception of the landscape in perspective, the influence of nature pictures on the pace of narration, the semantics of color, the place of direct author’s comments.
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Oxx, Katie, Allan Brimicombe, and Johnathan Rush. "Envisioning Deep Maps: Exploring the Spatial Navigation Metaphor in Deep Mapping." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 7, no. 1-2 (October 2013): 201–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2013.0090.
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The spatial turn within the humanities and need for data richness has led to the re-conceptualisation and exploration of maps as ‘deep maps.’ Building narratives of place is becoming increasingly contingent on data landscapes as opposed to the physical landscapes within which they are situated. To make the assumption that GIS can form the basis for deep maps is to privilege the spatial dimension (and spatial data) over all others. We have sought in our experimentation to take a more open, balanced approach as to how a deep map might be organised as a way of learning/reflecting on what elements a framework should contain. Our subject matter here necessitated attention to the challenges and potentialities of deep mapping ‘things deemed religious.’ We found spatial navigation to be useful for visualizing physical and metaphysical linkages, integrating the geographical portions of our spatial narrative as well as organizing thoughts off the map.
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Sangers, Nina L., Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Ted J. M. Sanders, and Hans Hoeken. "Narrative Elements in Expository Texts." Dialogue & Discourse 12, no. 2 (October 12, 2021): 115–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/dad.2021.204.
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While the use of narrative elements in educational texts seems to be an adequate means to enhance students’ engagement and comprehension, we know little about how and to what extent these elements are used in the present-day educational practice. In this quantitative corpus-based analysis, we chart how and when narrative elements are used in current Dutch educational texts (N=999). While educational texts have traditionally been considered prime exemplars of expository texts, we show that the distinction between the expository and narrative genre is not that strict in the educational domain: prototypical narrative elements – particularized events, experiencing characters, and landscapes of consciousness – occur in 45% of the corpus’ texts. Their distribution varies between school subjects: while specific events, specific people, and their experiences are often at the heart of the to-be-learned information in history texts, narrativity is less present in the educational content of biology and geography texts. Instead publishers employ narrative-like strategies to make these texts more concrete and imaginable, such as the addition of fictitious characters and representative entities.
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Knudsen, Karin Esmann. "“It was a sweet view – sweet to the eye and the mind.” Jane Austen og det pittoreske landskab." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 45, no. 123 (August 29, 2017): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v45i123.96911.
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It is obvious in Jane Austen’s novels that she was interested in the ongoing debate of ’the picturesque garden’, and in all her novels the characters are discussing how to look at the landscape, how to ‘improve’ the estates according to certain rules, and how taste and moral are connected to each other. The picturesque garden is inspired by paintings from the 17th century by Claude Lorraine and Nicolas Poussin, and in that way a clear line can be drawn back to Theocritus and Virgil, who introduced topoi as ‘locus amoenus’ and the ‘pastoral’. This article is examining how the relation is between these topoi, which are ideal landscapes that only exist in literature and painting, and the discussions of the design of real physical landscapes of contemporary England. It is difficult to decide on which side Austen was in the discussions of the picturesque. The article concludes that Austen’s voice is to be heard in the narrative, the development of the characters, and that she ends up with an attempt to reach an authentic relationship with landscape and nature that foreshadows a romantic feeling of nature. An appendix shows the later reception of Austen’s relationship to landscape, by analyzing a scene from modern films based on Jane Austen’s novels.
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Larkin, Craig. "BEYOND THE WAR? THE LEBANESE POSTMEMORY EXPERIENCE." International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 4 (October 15, 2010): 615–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002074381000084x.
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AbstractThis article seeks to address how Lebanese youth are dealing with the legacy of civil war (1975–90), given the national backdrop of official silence, persisting injustice, and competing memory discourses. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory, it explores the memory of a generation of Lebanese who have grown up dominated not by traumatic events but by narrative accounts of events that preceded their birth. This residual form of memory carries and connects with the pain of others, suffusing temporal frames and liminal positions. The article examines how postmemory is mediated and transformed through the mnemonic lenses of visual landscapes and oral narratives. Consideration is given to the dynamic production of “memoryscapes”—memories of violence localized in particular sites—and to narrative constructions of the past implicated in the ongoing search for meaning, historical truth, and identity. This article seeks to challenge pervasive notions of Lebanese postwar amnesia and of a generational detachment from the residual effects and future implications of war recollections.
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Henderson, Elizabeth. "Researching practitioner experiences through autoethnography: Embodying social policy, exploring emotional landscapes." Journal of Early Childhood Research 17, no. 1 (November 4, 2018): 32–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476718x18809135.
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This article highlights autoethnography as an arts-based methodology in early years research, giving consideration to its challenges and critics as well as the power of its application to elicit voices in a way that other methodologies do not. It embraces and models autoethnography through sharing a performative autoethnographic narrative of one practitioner’s experiences as she grapples with implementing child protection/safeguarding policies, exploring the embodiment of social policy and the consequent dissonance in emotions that lead to a disruption in identity. It asks, ‘What do policy imperatives actually feel like in practice and how might autoethnography, as an arts-based methodology, afford researchers a way to illustrate this?’ Challenging the perception of what it means to be an early years practitioner, through an evocative and provocative narrative, this article foregrounds the need to overcome the historical silencing of practitioner’s voices while illustrating the value of autoethnographic research in helping to reveal the multiple layers of power and dissonance in a pedagogical space such as a nursery. Adopting a critical stance, to avert challenges of solipsism and to further extend the debate around practitioner identity, the performative autoethnographic narrative is later reflected within the wider context of relevant literature. Finally, consideration is given to the question of why autoethnographic research is under-represented in the early years field, particularly at a time when it is prudent to create a wider epistemological base to extend the discourse around what support practitioners need to help them fulfil their vital role in children’s lives.