Nature’s Highway

Big Sur ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Alden Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Big Sur ◽  
National Media ◽  
Monterey County ◽  
Popular Representations ◽  
National Newspaper

Chapter 2 examines the transformative effect of the opening of Highway 1 in 1937. This chapter argues that planning foresight positioned Big Sur to become one of the state’s best-preserved coastlines, while popular representations of its dramatic natural elements provided the justification for such preservation. Before the highway opened, Monterey County established some of the first ordinances in the nation to prohibit billboards and require well-designed construction along the highway. Tourists responded with enthusiasm, drawn by Jeffers’s powerful verse and countless national newspaper stories extoling Big Sur’s beauty. In 1944 the avant-garde writer Henry Miller settled in Big Sur. Like Jeffers’s work, Miller’s representation of Big Sur left the impression that people belonged in and to this landscape. The highway set Big Sur on an irrevocable course toward participation in contemporary society, but aesthetic zoning, praise from the national media, and accounts from residents like Miller, all worked to blur the modern aspects of this coastal destination. Visitors to Big Sur sought a glimpse of the frontier that had supposedly closed four decades earlier, but ironically, the frontier they encountered derived at least in part from government regulations that responded to California’s phenomenal growth.

Open Space at Continent’s End

Big Sur ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Alden Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
The West ◽  
Coastal Conservation ◽  
Point Reyes National Seashore ◽  
Big Sur ◽  
Point Reyes ◽  
Monterey County ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Seashore

Chapter 4 revolves around the pivotal year of 1962, when Monterey County planners and Big Sur residents crafted a pioneering open-space master plan that foreshadowed the state’s commitment to coastal conservation in the following decades. Some residents balked at the idea of submitting to increased regulation, but the majority of residents understood that the government was going to have growing influence over the shape of landscapes and acknowledged the paradox that to retain a sense of the wild, residents would have to work alongside the government to determine viable residential and tourist features. Together, residents and Monterey County officials helped to secure in Big Sur a landscape quite distinct from two other notable California destinations: the rapidly commercializing Tahoe region and the newly established Point Reyes National Seashore. By accommodating a spectrum of visitors while restricting the numbers who could settle here, Big Sur locals and county officials secured the appearance of a democratic landscape long associated with the West, while, in fact, creating an increasingly exclusive landscape more representative of contemporary California.

scholarly journals Wonder Woman: Feminist Icon of the 1940s

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelica Delaney ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexual Autonomy ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Wonder Woman ◽  
American Society ◽  
Creative Team

The purpose of my research concerning the super heroine Wonder Woman is to identify the circumstances under which the comic was created, why its creator was set on using the medium of comics, the messages he was trying to communicate to American society regarding the roles of women, and why it has maintained its fan base from the 1940s to the present. My use of feminist and iconographic analysis provided me with a wealth of information concerning how this avant-garde comic series contested the widely accepted conventions concerning women with its sarcastic images and pejorative text. Creator William Moulton Marston in collaboration with comic artist Harry Peter set into motion a wave of feminist nuances within their comic run of Wonder Woman that aided the epoch of female empowerment during the 1940s. The text coupled with the artwork created a cohesive whole upon which the creative team could instill their views on contemporary society. Wonder Woman's personage gave both men and women an icon of what a woman was capable of should she possess an air of social, political, and sexual autonomy. I came to the conclusion that upon creation, Marston infused an image of a strong-willed woman among his contemporaries that he hoped would one day overtake its widely traditional submissive counterpart, and not only in the realm of comics.

A NEW SPECIES OF INCISALIA FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (RHOPALOCERA, LYCAENIDAE)

1940 ◽  
Vol 72 (8) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
Cyril F. Dos Passos
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Big Sur ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Small Series ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Monterey County ◽  
Pacific Grove ◽  
A New Species

The opening of a new highway along the coast from Monterey to San Luis Obispo, California, made it possible to collect in a hitherto rather inaccessible region. In 1938 Dr. Michael Doudoroff of the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California, took near Monterey, a few badly worn specimens of an Incisalia which he believed to be new. Returning the ensuing year in June and following the highway south about thirty miles below Carmel, he stopped near Big Sur, Monterey County, and there, after rather strenuous collecting on the precipitous seaward slopes of the mountains, he succeeded in taking a small series (eleven males and two females) of these butterflies. These he very kindly sent to me for determination.

DYN (1942–1945)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Winter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Native American ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Jackson Pollock ◽  
Native American Art ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Anais Nin

In Mexico City, at the height of World War II, the Viennese expatriate artist Wolfgang Paalen founded and edited DYN, an international art journal that distinguished him as a theorist and scholar of modern and ethnographic art. The journal was instrumental in the development of avant-garde art in Mexico and New York, particularly Abstract Expressionism. In DYN, Paalen published his own essays, criticism, and poetry, and collections of Native American Art, along with the contributions of Latin American artists such as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Miguel Covarrubias, César Moro, Carlos Mérida, Martín Chambi, and Roberto Matta; European artists Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Gordon Onslow Ford, and Alice Rahon; New York artists Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, and William Baziotes; Mexican anthropologists and ethnologists Alfonso Caso, Miguel Angel Fernandez, and Carlos Margain Araujo; and writers Valentine Penrose, Henry Miller, and Anaïs Nin. The five issues of DYN published between 1942 and 1944 inspired artists and thinkers worldwide. In 1945, following Paalen’s one-man exhibitions in Mexico City and New York, Robert Motherwell edited Form and Sense, an anthology of the DYN essays.

scholarly journals The social construction of statelessness in Canada: a study of national media 1939-2011

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Kane
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
National Media ◽  
National Newspaper ◽  
Stateless Person

To explore notions of knowledge production and narratives of truth surrounding statelessness in Canada, this study employs a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology to a media analysis of 616 newspaper articles from Canada's two largest national newspaper, the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. Within a social constructivist analytical framework, it finds that using citizenship as a tool to divide 'us' from 'them', statelessness is constructed in such a way that reinforces power relations between those who belong in Canada and those who do not. This divide is achieved via the construction of the stateless person as the 'other' in Canadian society, the ill-recognition of statelessness as a phenomenon in and of itself, and thirdly, the construction of statelessness contributes to a blurring of the definitional clarity of statelessness, further complicating our understanding of statelessness as a separate and distinct form of status in the Canadian context.

scholarly journals The social construction of statelessness in Canada: a study of national media 1939-2011

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Kane
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
National Media ◽  
National Newspaper ◽  
Stateless Person

To explore notions of knowledge production and narratives of truth surrounding statelessness in Canada, this study employs a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology to a media analysis of 616 newspaper articles from Canada's two largest national newspaper, the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. Within a social constructivist analytical framework, it finds that using citizenship as a tool to divide 'us' from 'them', statelessness is constructed in such a way that reinforces power relations between those who belong in Canada and those who do not. This divide is achieved via the construction of the stateless person as the 'other' in Canadian society, the ill-recognition of statelessness as a phenomenon in and of itself, and thirdly, the construction of statelessness contributes to a blurring of the definitional clarity of statelessness, further complicating our understanding of statelessness as a separate and distinct form of status in the Canadian context.

Big Sur: Utopia, U.S.A.?

Big Sur ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Alden Brooks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jack Kerouac ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
The West ◽  
Henry Miller ◽  
Big Sur ◽  
Oriented Region

The West that emerged in the postwar era—a rapidly growing, suburban, industrialized, consumer-oriented region—shaped American culture, and this culture became the foil against which Henry Miller and many others imagined Big Sur. Big Sur sat perched at the literal—and, increasingly, at the figurative—edge of the United States, and its cultural significance grew as the state continued to flourish. Chapter 3 examines the efforts from inside and out to paint Big Sur as a place apart but also as a hyper-representation of California complete with an exceptional landscape, a relatively young and flexible culture, a compelling lifestyle, and a place of perceived personal freedom. Ironically, this freedom and flexibility thrived within the zoning parameters established by Monterey County. A growing number of the diverse inhabitants of Big Sur, including the beatniks—drawn by Jack Kerouac—the artists, the professionals, and the upper-class residents, all shared at least one quality: they possessed social privilege and could use this capital to work with county officials to protect their haven from becoming one more commercialized coastal strip.

Big Sur

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Alden Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Symbol ◽  
Big Sur ◽  
Monterey County ◽  
Ansel Adams ◽  
The Way

Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West—and a home to the ultra-wealthy. This transformation was due in part to writers and artists such as Robinson Jeffers and Ansel Adams, who created an enduring mystique for this coastline. But Big Sur’s prized coastline is also the product of the pioneering efforts of residents and Monterey County officials, who forged a collaborative public/private preservation model for Big Sur that foreshadowed the shape of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century. Big Sur’s well-preserved vistas and high-end real estate situate this coastline somewhere between American ideals of development and wilderness. It is a space that challenges the way most Americans think of nature, its relationship to people, and what, in fact, makes it “wild.” This book highlights today’s complex and ambiguous intersections of class, the environment, and economic development through the lens of an iconic California landscape.

scholarly journals Media Agenda on Yogyakarta Sultanate Succession

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Kharisma Nasionalita ◽  
Catur Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Local Politics ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
National Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
National Newspaper

Yogyakarta is a province with special status in Indonesia, bound by unique local political rules. According to The Mandate of Law Number 13 of 2012 concerning the Privileges of Yogyakarta, the position of Governor and Deputy Governor must be filled by the determined leaders of the palace. Yogyakarta's local politics went under the spotlight when Sultan Hamengku Buwono crowned his eldest daughter to be the successor to the palace's leadership in his Sabdatama (Kings Order). National regulation does not mention the gender of the Governor and Deputy Governor while in the internal court of the Yogyakarta palace, the position of a leader must be occupied by men. The issue gained intensive national media attention throughout March-May 2015, particularly by Kompas, Republika, and Kedaulatan Rakyat. This research aims to measure the media agenda related to the issue of the Sultanate succession on three selected newspapers. Through the quantitative content analysis method, this research dissects how the media places and emphasizes this issue. The purpose of this research is to identify how issues are prioritized through news content.  There are 62 news articles selected from the period March-May 2015. The result of the research shows that all media emphasizes the Sultanate issue in different ways.  There is a distinction between the local newspaper Kedaulatan Rakyat and the national newspaper (KOMPAS and Republika). The local newspaper put monarchy issue in the second rank while the national newspaper set constitutional issues such as the polemic prerequisite of Yogyakarta Governor and Deputy Governor in second place.

Introduction

Big Sur ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Alden Brooks
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Coast ◽  
Cultural Symbol ◽  
Big Sur ◽  
Hybrid Space ◽  
Tourist Demand ◽  
The Way

For seventy miles along California’s central coast stretches an exceptional landscape known as Big Sur. Looming mountains, precipitous cliffs, deep canyons, towering redwoods, abundant wildlife, and an expansive ocean are all defining features of this prized coastline. Big Sur’s timeless landscape compelled California legislators to cater to the growing auto-tourist demand of the 1920s by penetrating the isolated Big Sur with the Carmel–San Simeon Highway, later known as Highway 1. For over seventy-five years, this ribbon of road, etched into the Santa Lucia Mountains, has delivered millions of admirers to the dramatic Big Sur coastline. They seek contact with a landscape that possesses qualities similar to those of a national park, but they also come to Big Sur because it has long been a cultural symbol of California and the West, a place rife with meaning in contemporary society. Big Sur’s pioneering preservation model—developed by residents and local and state officials—is key to its mystique. Big Sur occupies a hybrid space somewhere between American ideals of development and wilderness. It is a space that challenges the way most Americans think of nature, its relationship to people, and what, in fact, makes it “wild.”

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