Portfolio Logic
1,
What is landscape?
What is place?
How does it differ from place?
Why is place such a valuable concept for studying society?
How has your understanding of place changed since February?
What is landscape?
What is place?
How does it differ from place?
Why is place such a valuable concept for studying society?
How has your understanding of place changed since February?
2,
Fixed observation—where did you go?
Where would you go now?
Same? Different?
Fixed observation—where did you go?
Where would you go now?
Same? Different?
3, Landscapes in motion
De Certeau, why?
From our notes:
De Certeau's book at large is about the ways that people live their everyday life (or more specifically, the practices that make up our daily repertoires). His book is meant to be an answer to social theorists (like Marx and Foucault) who were largely interested in the structures and forms of power through which social, economic, and political life were controlled. De Certeau, while not rejecting the importance of studying such structures and forms of power, argues that we should attend also to the everyday, quotidian ways that people do things like walk through the city. Indeed, he suggests that paying attention to such practices helps us to see the ways that people live their lives in ways which are not completely determined by larger forms of power.
Where did you go for motion?
Where have you been since?
I like to connect this to another reading in the course, Yi-En Cheng’s Space and Culture article.
Like De Certeau he wants us to wander, but he also wants us to consider what we find—beyond just bodies, symbols and texts—but objects too
De Certeau, why?
From our notes:
De Certeau's book at large is about the ways that people live their everyday life (or more specifically, the practices that make up our daily repertoires). His book is meant to be an answer to social theorists (like Marx and Foucault) who were largely interested in the structures and forms of power through which social, economic, and political life were controlled. De Certeau, while not rejecting the importance of studying such structures and forms of power, argues that we should attend also to the everyday, quotidian ways that people do things like walk through the city. Indeed, he suggests that paying attention to such practices helps us to see the ways that people live their lives in ways which are not completely determined by larger forms of power.
Where did you go for motion?
Where have you been since?
I like to connect this to another reading in the course, Yi-En Cheng’s Space and Culture article.
Like De Certeau he wants us to wander, but he also wants us to consider what we find—beyond just bodies, symbols and texts—but objects too
4,
Landscapes sexed and gendered
Texts/Symbols & embodiment
Seetha Low:
Embodied spaces.
“Embodied space is presented as a model for understanding the creation of place through spatial orientation, movement, and language.”
“These understandings require theories of body and space that are experience-near and yet allow for linkages to be made to larger, social, and cultural processes.[..] underscoring the importance of the body as a physical and biological entity, lived experience, and a center of agency, a location for speaking and acting on the world.” (pp. 9-10)
Low, Setha M. "Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture." Space and culture 6, no. 1 (2003): 9-18.
[we did a feedback session on your first assignments in class as a quiz]
Landscapes sexed and gendered
Texts/Symbols & embodiment
Seetha Low:
Embodied spaces.
“Embodied space is presented as a model for understanding the creation of place through spatial orientation, movement, and language.”
“These understandings require theories of body and space that are experience-near and yet allow for linkages to be made to larger, social, and cultural processes.[..] underscoring the importance of the body as a physical and biological entity, lived experience, and a center of agency, a location for speaking and acting on the world.” (pp. 9-10)
Low, Setha M. "Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture." Space and culture 6, no. 1 (2003): 9-18.
[we did a feedback session on your first assignments in class as a quiz]
5, Sound & Senses
https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-map/
What did you hear?
Would you do it the same? Differently?
https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-map/
What did you hear?
Would you do it the same? Differently?
6,
Pandemic landscapes
How has the pandemic changed landscapes?
Crucially, how has it affected place?
[We looked at evictions]
What did you observe ‘out there?
Pandemic landscapes
How has the pandemic changed landscapes?
Crucially, how has it affected place?
[We looked at evictions]
What did you observe ‘out there?
7, Imperial Landscapes
What are the relationships between imperialism and landscapes?
Mitchell, p. 10
Present nature of imperialism IN our landscapes/space
Imperialism and counter/anti-imperialism
Statues and monuments--
From our notes:
And imperialism does not just shape the landscape in colonized lands, but in the lands of the colonizers too with the spoils of extraction, possession and violence being turned into elements of the landscape.
And in protest...
What are the relationships between imperialism and landscapes?
Mitchell, p. 10
Present nature of imperialism IN our landscapes/space
Imperialism and counter/anti-imperialism
Statues and monuments--
From our notes:
And imperialism does not just shape the landscape in colonized lands, but in the lands of the colonizers too with the spoils of extraction, possession and violence being turned into elements of the landscape.
And in protest...
9, Gendered Landscapes II
Field task—reading and marking them now.
Turning observation into argument through analysis
Field task—reading and marking them now.
Turning observation into argument through analysis
10,
Delta Landscapes;
Destabilize the difference between ‘wet’ and ‘dry’
Landscapes for experimentation: development, reclamation, and now climate mitigation
Who are the people at the heart of these experiments and what does it tell us about the precarity of place?
3 videos—heaps of content
Lecture
Conversation
Gabura on bike, in motion
Delta Landscapes;
Destabilize the difference between ‘wet’ and ‘dry’
Landscapes for experimentation: development, reclamation, and now climate mitigation
Who are the people at the heart of these experiments and what does it tell us about the precarity of place?
3 videos—heaps of content
Lecture
Conversation
Gabura on bike, in motion
11, Gentrification
What is Gentrification?
Gentrification is a process in which areas change socially, culturally and economically through demographic movement. Commonly, gentrification is instigated by people with higher capital than existing residents. This process creates divisions between new and existing people in an area, ultimately causing displacement in many cases. The dynamics of an area are ruptured in this process. Gentrification persists (and expands) due to unequal distribution of wealth [NB: we had growth, but gentrification can also take place in economies with low or negative growth, what matters are relative inequalities] among different communities and areas. Alignment with public policies include: urban renewal, beautification, rebranding, and the pursuit of economic growth. These policies may not have the specific goal of producing gentrification, but they create the conditions that facilitate it.
See our page for details.
12,
Did we do what we said we’d do?
Off the books Goals
*if the answer is no, ask yourself whether:
a. You did the reading each week?
b. You attended class in a face to face course?
c. You participated in the tasks and activities set in lieu of a heavy reading load?
We have it all preserved here—so once blackboard shuts down. You still have all your course content on this site.
Clever no?
Did we do what we said we’d do?
Off the books Goals
- Practice the ethnographic study of landscape using field visits, images, and written texts;
- Outline the ways that diverse landscapes work together to produce the regions where we live and study;
- Design independent research inquiry into landscapes;
- Collaborate with diverse (and remote) groups in developing a comparative research agenda for the study of landscapes in distinct regions;
- Identify the politics of place-making in two geographically distant regions with shared pasts of indigenous dispossession, resource extraction, and post-industrial reconfiguration.
- Improve ability to write and communicate in both academic and non-academic environments
*if the answer is no, ask yourself whether:
a. You did the reading each week?
b. You attended class in a face to face course?
c. You participated in the tasks and activities set in lieu of a heavy reading load?
We have it all preserved here—so once blackboard shuts down. You still have all your course content on this site.
Clever no?
Portfolios
Marking Sheet
Questions?
Finally, Please complete the Course Survey
