scholarly journals URBAN SPACE OF INNER ASIA IN TRAVELOGUES OF RUSSIAN ORIENTALISM IN THE 19th AND EARLY 20th CENTURIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Palikova T. V. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Inner Asia

Статья представляет собой продолжение изучения восприятия «Иного» в рамках бинарности «Свой — Чужой» по ряду критериев, предпринятого нами в предшествующей публикации . Для подтверждения первоначальных выводов был существенно расширен ряд отечественных «travel writing» миссионеров, ученых, военных, публицистов и просто «экспедиционеров» XIX — начала ХХ в. Используя литературоведческую теорию жанра травелога, пограничного с документальной литературой (дневники, отчеты, воспоминания, записки, эпистолярии), автор при-ходит к выводу о ее возможном применении в исторических исследованиях и выделяет несколько тем, наиболее часто встречаемых в текстах путешественников: граница, пространство, город, который воздействует на всю чувственную сферу человека (зрение, обоняние, слух) одновременно, вызывая в большинстве случаев первоначальное неприятие, сменяющееся со временем привыканием, но не исчезающее окончательно.

scholarly journals Three Shades of Red: Power of Symbols or Soviet Legacy in Contemporary Inner Asian Capitals

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-143
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Mikhalev
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
Red Power ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
Soviet Legacy ◽  
Symbolic Practices

The paper focuses on Soviet symbols in Inner Asian capitals and the conflicts around socialist legacy. We analyze Ulaanbaatar, Kyzyl, and Ulan-Ude as three different models of transformation of political symbols in urban space. All three capitals in their names contain the word “red” semiotically associated with communist ideology. Correspondingly, we see three different models of symbolic struggle for urban space. Theoretically, the paper is based upon the model of symbolic politics. Empirically, the research is based on materials of our own observations, discourse analysis of media, and official municipal documents. In general, the research is an analysis of symbolic practices of power in the conditions of a number of complex changes in Inner Asia.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: An Experiment in Real Exploration, Actual Travel, Constructed Worlds, and Emancipation (in/from Japan)

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 104-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Goto-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Function ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Places ◽  
Architectural Spaces ◽  
Ethics And Politics

AbstractThis paper experiments with the idea that travel writing could be a valid and useful mode through which to study certain videogames. By embracing the notions that space is a social construction and that the virtual worlds of some videogames constitute architectural spaces in a manner that is more than analogous to an urban space, it maintains that these constructed worlds are real places to visit, and hence that exploration within them is also real. Furthermore, the paper considers the ways in which travel in general, and travel in(to) videogames in particular, contributes to the experience of emancipation in technology-rich societies. Using the example of Japan (as one of the global powerhouses of videogame creation and consumption), the paper considers the interaction and intersection of the virtual and the actual, in mutually enriching and liberating ways, which are viewed in terms of their social and political function. It also cautions about the ethics and politics of knowledge involved in the deployment of travel writing as a method in the interrogation of videogames, concluding with a methodological sketch for a way ahead. It illustrates and demonstrates its argument with three original travelogues.

Home, the Asylum, and the Workhouse in The Shadow of the Glen

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Little
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Institutional Space ◽  
Union Workhouse

This essay analyses J.M. Synge's construction of domestic and institutional space in his debut play The Shadow of the Glen. The Richmond Asylum and Rathdrum Union Workhouse, the two institutions of confinement which are mentioned in the play, are seen as playing important roles in constructing a threatening offstage space beyond the cottage walls. The essay reads Nora's departure from the home at the end of the play as an eviction into this hostile environment, thereby challenging the dominant interpretation of The Shadow as a woman's choice between her home and the road. By drawing on historical research and Synge's travel writing to delineate contemporary attitudes towards the asylum and the workhouse, the essay aims to provide a deeper understanding of the play's dynamics of place.

Prince Henri d'Orleans (1867–1901): geographical and botanical exploration between inner Asia and southwest China

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-399
Author(s):  
WILLIAM GARDENER
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Western China ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Botanical Exploration ◽  
Western Yunnan ◽  
Westerly Direction ◽  
Chinese Province ◽  
The Right ◽  
North Western

Prince Henri d'Orleans, precluded by French law from serving his country in the profession of arms, had his attention turned early towards exploration. In 1889, accompanied by the experienced traveller Gabriel Bonvalet, he set out from Paris to reach Indo-China overland by way of Central Asia, Tibet and western and south western China. The journey made contributions in the problems of the whereabouts of Lap Nor and the configuration of the then unexplored northern plateau of Tibet; and in botany it produced some species new to science. The party reached Indo-China in 1890. In 1895, having organised an expedition better equipped for topographical survey and for investigations in the fields of natural history and ethnography, Prince Henri set out from Hanoi with the intention of exploring the Mekong through the Chinese province of Yunnan. After proceeding up the left bank of the Salween for a brief part of its course and then alternating between the right and left banks of the Mekong as far up as Tzeku, the party found it advisable to enter Tibet in a north westerly direction through the province of Chamdo and instead crossed the south eastern extremity of the country, the Zayul, by a difficult track which led them to the country of the Hkamti Shans in present day Upper Burma, and thence to India completing a journey of 2000 miles, "1500 of which had been previously untrodden" (Prince Henri). West of the Mekong, the journey established that the Salween, which some geographers had claimed took its rise in or near north western Yunnan, in fact rose well north in Tibet, and that, contrary to previous opinions, the principal headwater of the Irrawaddy rose no further north than latitude 28°30'. Botanical collections were confined to Yunnan, where the tracks permitted mule transport, and they produced a number of species new to science and extended the range of distribution of species already known.

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