Pub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1965900
Jean-Baptiste Lanne
This article provides reflexive feedback on a four hands poetry writing experiment as a field method for fostering expression in people unaccustomed to it. To complement my in-depth interviews with private security guards at the gates of fenced residences in Nairobi (Kenya), I conducted several poetry workshops with them between 2015 and 2017. Although this medium is no more authentic than conventional storytelling, poetry as a four hands practice allowed us to overcome inhibiting dualities (I/the Other; authentic/non authentic; here/there). Retrospectively, I argue that this collective work should be understood as the expression of a dialectic of closeness between the two coauthors, i.e. a codified oscillation game between two sets of attitudes: maintaining an explicit distance and attempting micro-intrusions. This dialectic may lead us to reconsider our relationship with the produced text, making it an independent third protagonist, but nevertheless necessary for the encounter.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1965899
Elizabeth Belanger
This article explores seven segregation cases involving African-American women and public transportation that played out in the city courts of St. Louis between 1865 and 1871. Situating the cases within a theoretical framework of mobility, the article explores the spatial characteristics of African-American working-class women’s lives and the extent to which streetcars became staging grounds for larger civil rights battles. While previous accounts of streetcar activism have often positioned cases as isolated incidents undertaken by elite African-American women, the cases in St. Louis attest to the rise of civil rights activism among working-class African-American women. The discussion further shows how they contributed to the nature and form of oppositional politics in St. Louis.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-13DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1965898
S. Caquard, Emory Shaw, José Alavez
Stories are now broadly recognized as important sources of geographic information in different domains of the spatial humanities. The methodologies mobilized to identify these spatial data, however, remain the subject of intense debate. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by focusing on what we can learn from the close reading of stories to improve the quality of distant reading approaches. We do this through an in-depth comparative analysis of how toponyms are used across 10 oral life stories of exiles. Results show that a “distant listening” of the number of country names mentioned in these stories provides an accurate representation of their global geographies. However, the finer-scaled geographies of these stories become highly distorted when counting more local toponyms such as neighborhoods, cities or regions. This study also reveals that results could be improved by accounting for the distribution and repetition of toponyms throughout these stories. Such insights and their nuances are described in this paper with an aim to help narrow the gap between close and distant reading methodologies.
{"title":"How Distant is Close Enough? Exploring the Toponymic Distortions of Life Story Geographies","authors":"S. Caquard, Emory Shaw, José Alavez","doi":"10.1080/2373566X.2021.1965898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2021.1965898","url":null,"abstract":"Stories are now broadly recognized as important sources of geographic information in different domains of the spatial humanities. The methodologies mobilized to identify these spatial data, however, remain the subject of intense debate. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by focusing on what we can learn from the close reading of stories to improve the quality of distant reading approaches. We do this through an in-depth comparative analysis of how toponyms are used across 10 oral life stories of exiles. Results show that a “distant listening” of the number of country names mentioned in these stories provides an accurate representation of their global geographies. However, the finer-scaled geographies of these stories become highly distorted when counting more local toponyms such as neighborhoods, cities or regions. This study also reveals that results could be improved by accounting for the distribution and repetition of toponyms throughout these stories. Such insights and their nuances are described in this paper with an aim to help narrow the gap between close and distant reading methodologies.","PeriodicalId":53217,"journal":{"name":"Geohumanities","volume":"80 1","pages":"102 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84791569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-07DOI: 10.1080/2373566x.2021.1942130
Pablo Arboleda, P. Jankiewicz
Over the last five decades, Italy has invested in the construction of public works as the core strategy to dynamize its less favoured regions; however, due to multiple and inherent dysfunctionalities, many of these remain half-built and abandoned today. The group of artists Alterazioni Video refer to this phenomenon as “Incompiuto” (“Incompletion” in English), coining a name for a new architectural style where the characteristic unfinished materiality speaks back to Italian idiosyncrasy. In the pursuit of existential dignity, Alterazioni Video suggest that these sites muster and reassemble metaphysical places of contemplation, thought and the imaginary. Drifting at one of its most spectacular samples (The Dam of Blufi, Sicily), the present collaboration between an architect and a writer testifies to said assertion, and celebrates the phenomenological qualities of modern ruination argued in emerging geographical literatures.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-03DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1960878
Tatiana Abatemarco
This paper explores the trope of pastoral harmony in environmental literature, art, and media. Some themes in the pastoral harmony trope are arcadia, idyll, elegy, utopia, balance of nature, rootedness, locality, rurality, and natural health. Of particular focus in this piece is the celebration of agriculture and agricultural landscapes. By analyzing two case studies of contemporary artists who celebrate agriculture in their work, I explore the themes and tensions in modern pastoral art, which both “sells” the pastoral lifestyle and embraces progressive social and environmental ideals. The case studies include photographer and filmmaker Ben Stechschulte and music by Rising Appalachia. In a world of climate crisis and social injustice, these artists demonstrate a pastoral vision that prescribes a more nuanced understanding of rurality as the antidote to fractured relationships between human groups and the more-than-human world.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.1080/2373566x.2021.1960179
Amy Shimshon-Santo
“If we possess the land,” cultural activist Ben Caldwell said, “we can become erasure proof.” The essay reveals how BIPOC community arts spaces negotiate spatial sovereignty that fortify ecologies of culture and place. The work analyzes a culminating activity in a participatory action research process structured around the themes of land, story, memory, and leadership. The axis of the paper is an intergenerational conversation with cultural producers and arts administrators at Self Help Graphics & Art in the Latinx neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Kaos Network the African-American neighborhood of Leimert Park, and Visual Communications in the Asian Pacific Islander led neighborhood of Little Tokyo. The conversation is set in Los Angeles—a megalopolis on the Pacific Rim recognized globally for its creative and cultural production. “How to Become Erasure Proof” provides a robust conceptual framework, and highlights BIPOC strategies for community organizing that cherish culture and land. The discussion contributes to broader movements centering BIPOC imaginaries, creative flourishing, and organizing for spatial justice.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-13DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1942128
Dominic Hinde
This article recounts the practice of producing a commercial newspaper feature for a major American outlet on energy transition and the end of the oil boom in Aberdeen, Scotland. Speaking to both media and energy geographies, it pursues journalistic practice as a form of energy ethnography, exposing how entangled journalism practitioners are with the systems they report with reference to the concept of petroculture. Narrating 48 hours spent on the ground in the oil city, it discusses the invisible processes behind the commercial publication of a transition narrative and the experience of working in the field to construct the story. By focusing on questions of transnational power and gatekeeping, the concept of the energy city, and the role of oil in both visible and invisible forms, it uses its unique dual practitioner/academic perspective to speculate on the possibility of moving beyond market friendly “good news” transition narratives to more meaningful interrogations of energy.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-12DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1942126
C. Hewitt
The Battle of Hastings (1066) is one of the most widely studied battles in medieval history. Yet despite the importance that research shows geography to play in the outcome of such conflicts, academic studies on the battle have yet to provide a researched-based cartographic analysis of the battle. This study, consequently, seeks to map the battle to scale to examine the size and impact of geographic factors in understanding the events that shaped the battle. The analysis was undertaken using a geographic information system (GIS) with qualitative and quantitative techniques. Historical and current data were combined in a series of detailed state of the art maps to bring an entirely new perspective to the nearly millennium long literature on the battle. Factors considered in the study included previous interpretations of battlefields, literary GIS, cartographic depictions of units and a cartographic narrative of the battle. Among the findings of this study were a firm demonstration of the importance of cartographic-based analysis in understanding the size of a medieval battlefield and the development of a literary military account.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1942129
Sayd Randle
This paper explores popular expectations for and meanings of the U.S. West’s environmental future, as articulated through recent artistic representations of the Los Angeles’s expansive water provision network. Weaving together material from participant observation and readings of creative works, I show how infrastructural imagery is used to index anxieties about a future of water scarcity. Presenting familiar, currently functional water infrastructures as ruins-in-the-making, these artists use the physical stuff of water provision networks to advance critiques of longstanding modes of development and the material basis of urban-rural relations in the U.S. West. Doing so, these imagined ruins draw the global-scale threat of climate change into a protracted regional story of landscape-making (and ruining). These works suggest the potential power of such a meso-scale approach to the Anthropocene concept for orienting empirical scholarship, enabling analysts to explore how global processes and local histories co-produce regional imaginaries and landscapes alike.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-14eCollection Date: 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1929384
Christina Leigh Geros
This paper explores monsoons as a set of atmospheric-orographic dynamics productive of water resources and as a site of actionable concern for landscape practice. From study to representation to design, the term "landscape practice" is used to describe a way of positioning environments as both subject and object of concern. While monsoons are constituents of many geographies, dynamics, materials and experiences, this paper focuses on the South Asian monsoon and its relationship with the Tibetan Plateau. In this region, freshwater resources are dependent on the monsoon; however, as rising global temperatures and rapid urban development significantly impact the behavior of the monsoon and the Plateau's ability to store freshwater, the monsoon-as a kinetic body of freshwater-becomes the focal point of visual media productions and extractive technologies that require a shifting of perspective from one that privileges land to one that centers the atmosphere. The inclusion of meteorological and atmospheric material and dynamics within the space of landscape practice, constructively challenges the spatial discipline's engagement with exploitable resources; and the monsoon provides a tangible site and set of conditions that is in urgent need of this exploration.
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