Dimensions of remapping: Heinrich Schiffers and his mental map of Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-32
Author(s):  
Ute Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Mental Map

scholarly journals The Making of a Marian Geography of Grace for Greek Catholics in the Polish Crownlands of the 17th–18th Centuries

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 446
Author(s):  
Dieter Stern
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Marian Devotion ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Active Policy ◽  
Mass Events

This article explores the ways in which the newly founded and highly contested Christian confession of the Greek Catholics or Uniates employed strategies of mass mobilization to establish and maintain their position within a contested confessional terrain. The Greek Catholic clerics, above all monks of the Basilian order fostered an active policy of acquiring, founding and promoting Marian places of grace in order to create and invigorate a sense of belonging among their flock. The article argues that folk ideological notions concerning the spatial and physical conditions for the working of miracles were seized upon by the Greek Catholic faithful to establish a mental map of grace of their own. Especially, the Basilian order took particular care to organize mass events (annual pilgrimages, coronation celebrations for miraculous images) and promote Marian devotion through miracle reports and icon songs in an attempt to define what it means to be a Greek Catholic in terms of sacred territoriality.

Assessing geography knowledge in primary education with mental map analysis: a Balearic Islands case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Jaume Binimelis Sebastián ◽  
Antoni Ordinas Garau ◽  
Maurici Ruiz Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Map Analysis

Navigating in a challenging semiarid environment: the use of a route-based mental map by a small-bodied neotropical primate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipa Abreu ◽  
Paul A. Garber ◽  
Antonio Souto ◽  
Andrea Presotto ◽  
Nicola Schiel
Keyword(s):  
Semiarid Environment ◽  
Neotropical Primate ◽  
Mental Map

Four blessings and a funeral: Adomnán's theological map of Iona

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Gilbert Márkus
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Order ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Surrounding Landscape

Adomnán of Iona wrote a Life of Saint Columba, the founder of that monastery, but did not tell the story of Iona's foundation. Instead, the holiness of the monastery and its surrounding landscape, and their connection to the founder, were established by a narrative in the final chapter of Adomnán's work. In it we watch the final days of Columba's life and his movement across the island, blessing it and its inhabitants. The description is simple, but it is rich in references to scriptural, liturgical and sacramental themes, and it structures those themes spatially, revealing Adomnán's mental map of the island. Iona's various spaces and boundaries shape and express the lives of Columba's (and Adomnán's) monks, and so invite the reader to see how salvation is revealed in time and space, in movement, and in dwelling within the spatial order established by Columba's blessings.

„Balkan-Wien“ – Versuch einer Verflechtungsgeschichte der politischen Emigration aus den Balkanländern im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit (1918–1934) / “Balkan Vienna” – Reflections on an Histoire croisée of Political Emigration from the Balkans to Vienna during the Interwar Period (1918–1934)

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Jens Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
External View ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mental Map

Abstract This paper follows “Balkan Vienna”, a media phenomenon as well as a media construct created both by the Viennese press and from the perspective of the Balkans themselves. The decline of the once brilliant capital of the great empire into a hotbed of revolutionaries and terrorists was recorded in Belgrade with scorn and fear. In Vienna, the press addressed these events in terms that sought to distance the capital from the southeast. However, at the same time the Viennese press admired the political activists from the Balkans, exoticising them as heroes. Thus, the press externalised Austrian domestic contradictions through their discussions of Balkan politics. By reporting scandal and sleaze, the press perpetuated the image of Vienna as a refuge for revolutionary activities and “typical Balkan” violence. “Balkan Vienna” is thus a social and political place, one of local, national, transnational, Balkanic and European linkages. As such, it is part of a new discourse, which relocates the internal and external view of Vienna and Austria on the mental map of Europe.

scholarly journals The conflict between Nomadic and Sedentary civilizations in a render of cartographical thought

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-212
Author(s):  
Konstantin V. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Terrain Features

This paper compares the mental map of the Kazakh nomads and representational mappings of Russian surveyors. This comparison makes it possible to identify several categories of place-names, which had been heavily used both by nomads and Russian topographers. In spite of the fact that in many cases these place-names varied little concerning the expression, they usually included a number of key differences concerning the content. Such a situation caused series of mental conflicts, which under certain circumstances could escalate into the arm clashes. One of the conclusions in this paper is that the narratives resulted from colonial knowledge were insensitive to the signifieds that were central to the nomadic existence. In contrast, the benchmarks of representational topography had immediately identified the categories, by which the nomads linked their mental map to the steppe. These categories included isolated terrain features (urochishcha), routes, and boundaries. The paper provides an analysis of the structure relevant to each of these concepts and reveals significant differences in their values for the representatives of nomadic and sedentary civilizations. The paper contains a few examples that illustrate how these differences could lead to conflicts between Kazakh nomads and Russian sedentary settlers.

scholarly journals PERCEPTIONAL APPROACH IN SOCIAL-GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH OF THE URBAN SPACE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF LVIV)

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Myroslava VLAKH ◽  
Iryna HUDZELYAK
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Color Perception ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Minimum Threshold ◽  
Functional Transformation ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Unique Interpretation ◽  
The City ◽  
Coefficient Of Asymmetry

The color perception and evaluation of the attitude of the student youth towards 20 territorial parts of Lviv urban space were analyzed. The importance of the studentification for the functional transformation of urban space was emphasized. A technique developed by the Swiss psychologist M. Lusher was used to research the color perception of urban space. An electronic poll of 205 students was conducted, the results of which were analyzed in three age categories. The study found a low coefficient of asymmetry in the responses and determined a minimum threshold for a unique interpretation of the “color” of the area. A mental map of the color perception of Lviv was performed, which distinguishes areas dominated by the perception of the same color, the combination of two colors, the indistinct distribution, as well as the positive, negative and uncertain attitude of students towards them. Warm colors (yellow, green, red) were found to relate mainly to the areas of study, dwelling, and the most frequent location of the students, as well as to the desired places of residence. Black and gray colors dominate in the perception of industrial and transport-industrial districts of Lviv, which received negative opinions. The results of the study can be used in the process of adaptive transformation (according to student needs) of Lviv urban space and in specificating the paradigm of its development. In particular, according to the poll, a large part of Lviv has negative or uncertain attitude, thus its further functional transformation must take into account the needs of student youth. Colored association with territorial parts of the city may also be used for creation of verbal urbal images and formulation of relevant geospatial metaphors.

scholarly journals Garðaríki and Its Capital: Novgorod on the Mental Map of Medieval Scandinavians

Slovene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-179
Author(s):  
Tatjana N. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Church

The paper presents data preserved in Old Norse-Icelandic literature on Hólmgarðr, a place that is traditionally identified with Novgorod. Hólmgarðr appears in these writings as a capital of Garðaríki (Old Rus’): all Russian princes familiar from these sources have their seat in this place. Almost all the events occurring in Russia are associated in the sagas with Hólmgarðr: Scandinavians come to Hólmgarðr to seek refuge or service; four Norwegian kings stay in Hólmgarðr for a period of time; Scandinavians return to their homeland or sail to distant lands from this place; and Scandinavian merchants also come to this town. Hólmgarðr is described in a generalized way. It has the prince’s court, the chamber of the princess, a special hall built for the Varangian guards, the Church of St. Olav, and a marketplace; in other words, we are dealing with a traditional set of characteristics of a capital city. Novgorod on the mental map of medieval Scandinavians belongs to the eastern quarter (Austrhálfa) of the oekumene, and to get there travelers had to go austr ‘east,’ to cross the Baltic Sea (Austmarr, Eystrasalt), and to pass Ladoga (Aldeigja, Aldeigjuborg), where they changed from ocean-going ships to river vessels and where they waited for a guaranty of safe travel (grið) from the prince of Novgorod (konungr í Hólmgarði).

Strategic Modernization Theory Bogs Down in the Vietnam Quagmire

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-204
Author(s):  
Michael C. Desch
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Universal Model ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Nuclear Strategy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter looks at the rise and fall of strategic modernization theory. One of the key figures in bridging the worlds of nuclear strategy and political and economic development, not to mention academia and policy, was the economist Walt W. Rostow. Unique among civilian development strategists, Rostow was not only a scholar of these issues; he also held a series of high-level U.S. government positions, which made him a direct formulator and implementer of policy. The chapter then outlines the intellectual context in which he formulated his universal model of strategic modernization and development. It also studies his arguments and shows how and why they provided U.S. policymakers with the mental map to interpret the Cold War in the Third World in a particularly threatening way and also to recommend strategies to respond to the challenge of underdevelopment there.

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