scholarly journals From Ricœurian Hermeneutics to Environmental Hermeneutics. Space, Landscape, and Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Martinho Tomé Soares
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Interpretive Process ◽  
The Way

The analysis of fundamental texts such as “Architecture and Narrativity” and Memory, History, Forgetting aims to fill a gap in studies of Environmental Hermeneutics. Indeed, the analogy between space and narrative, through parallelism with the process of triple mimesis, is usually deduced by environmental hermeneuticists from the works Time and Narrative and Oneself as Another. However, Ricœur himself took it upon himself to make this transposition in a direct and elaborated way from a phenomenological and hermeneutic analysis of the built space (through architecture) and the inhabited space, opening the way for a broader and more grounded epistemology of environmental hermeneutics. The introduction of the critical concept of landscape, as seen today by constructivist and cultural geography, legitimizes the claims of an environmental hermeneutics as an interpretive process of formally non-textual objects. Indeed, landscape in its connection to territory has its own semiotic and semantic character, which is appealed to for reading and interpretation.

scholarly journals Ghost species: spectral geographies of biodiversity conservation

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane McCorristine ◽  
William M Adams
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Species Loss ◽  
Spectral Quality ◽  
Conservation Science ◽  
Conservation Action ◽  
The Way

Despite the widespread use of spectral metaphors, the spectral quality of debates about extinction is little remarked by researchers in conservation science. In this article, we ask the following question: does a sense of the spectral create the conditions for hopeful thoughts and actions about biodiversity? Does becoming ‘haunted’ by species loss accomplish anything? Our intervention is timely because the field of biodiversity conservation reflects the power of ghosts, haunting, and absence in framing the crisis of biodiversity loss and in the moral tales that it uses to justify urgent conservation action. These spectral ideas have power to shape the way conservationists think and act. Yet, crucially, the connections between ghosts, haunting and conservation are not much acknowledged or discussed in conservation itself. Here, we explore the hopeful potential for conservation’s ghostly engagement by drawing on the literature on the spectral turn in cultural geography.

scholarly journals Independent fashion designers in the elusive fashion city

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802093093
Author(s):  
Hilde Heim ◽  
Tiziana Ferrero-Regis ◽  
Alice Payne
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Multiple Characteristics ◽  
Constant State ◽  
Australian City ◽  
Industry Culture ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Ebb And Flow ◽  
The Way

This article examines the cultural geography of fashion cities, focusing on independent fashion designers’ relationships with their city. Through discussing the Australian city of Brisbane and its place within the hierarchy of fashion cities, we examine the position of modern yet peripheral locations that have what we term an ‘elusive’ fashion identity. The discussion highlights the complexities that make a city a fashion city, specifically the interplay between industry, culture, retail and design, commonly identified as fundamental elements in the construction or transformation of fashion cities. The paper unravels the dynamics and discourses that have contributed to the contemporary conceptualisation of the fashion city; it evaluates the way in which local independent fashion designers (IFDs) can contribute to a reorientation of thinking about cities and their fashion; and it gauges how IFDs sustain a local fashion identity within cities that do not present the commonly recognised characteristics of a fashion city such as infrastructures. We argue that IFDs in peripheral cities have a very different relationship with their city than do IFDs in so-called fashion cities. By examining this relationship, and Brisbane’s modestly placed position on fashion cities’ hierarchy, we propose that, except for the traditional fashion centres, other cities are in a constant state of flux, arguing that the concept of the fashion city itself is elusive. We propose that as cities experience fashion narratives that ebb and flow, they may present multiple characteristics that make them unique at a particular moment, thus they are ‘elusive’ fashion cities.

Environmental Narratives and Media Conventions: Strategic Frames and Value-Based Argument

2008 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Collins
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Environmental Narratives ◽  
Interpretive Process ◽  
The Way

Our understanding of environmental issues and our contribution to environmental degradation are shaped by the way our stories are framed, the value hierarchies they advance and a familiarity with the chosen narratives that are so conventionalised that this may deter recognition of how narrative choices limit our interpretive process. Textual arguments and image choices within these narratives have the potential to expand or restrict the audience's commitment to and participation in the belief or action sought by the message. In this article, I am interested in televised documentaries that argue for environmental preservation. I argue that, guided by journalistic conventions and stock environmental narratives, well-meaning appeals frequently make the wrong strategic choices. By examining a case study of similar documentaries employing different narrative choices, we can begin to see how particular narrative structures and substantive appeals advance or restrict audience adherence to the proposed environmental action.

scholarly journals The Representation(s) of Morocco in Elias Canetti’s The Voices of Marrakesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
Adil El Filali
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

Elias Canetti’s (2009) the Voices of Marrakesh depicts a set of cultural features about Marrakesh city, Morocco. In such travel writing text, different are the issues of representation about the country which are discursively figured in negative perspectives. Relatedly, the gaze of the Westerner theoretically and practically helps target the extent to which the Moroccan landscape and identity are constructed. At this point, debates about the nature of concepts like the ‘civilized’, the ‘primitive’, and the ‘savage’ are very common and form the intellectual background for the travel writer. The dichotomy between center and periphery is highly examined in the present article since there are images or processes of decentralizing Morocco. Following post-colonial analytical approach, the current article problematizes the way the West represents Morocco and its cultural geography. Importantly, the article focuses on Moroccan geography which is given little if not no importance pretending that it is a deserted space where the uncivilized natives dwell. It serves nothing but fear and mystery. This paper serves as a basis for the readership to understand the way Morocco is portrayed by Canetti. By representing Morocco in different images, Canetti ideologically generates a socio-cultural discourse about Arabs and about Morocco in particular. By doing so, he confirms the fact that there is no innocent text including travel narrative.

Landscapes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Gamble
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Chapter 4 looks at the relationship between space and the reincarnation tradition. It explains the cultural geography of Tibet and how Tibet’s sited traditions were pressed into service to aid the Karmapa lineage. It explores the importance of place and environmental imagery to Rangjung Dorje’s poetry, his songs, and his praises. It then outlines Tibet’s cultural geography: its indigenous traditions of autochthonous deities and spirits, and the way Buddhism was said to have “tamed” them. It also describes Rangjung Dorje’s non-Tibetan, lineal forebears, the Indian mahāsiddhas whose mahāmudrā tradition approached environments with a mixture of skepticism and transformation. Following in their footsteps, Rangjung Dorje’s Tibetan forebears like Milarepa had begun to reimagine the Tibetan landscape as maṇḍalas and created a series of sacred sites. The early Karmapas’ monasteries also came to be seen as their maṇḍalas and, therefore, a place to which they should return life after life.

scholarly journals ‘That’s the way to do it!’: establishing the peculiar geographies of puppetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402095625
Author(s):  
Janet Banfield
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Initial Analysis ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

This paper initiates a new area of cultural geography – the geographies of puppets and puppetry – and makes both empirical and conceptual contributions by presenting an initial analysis of puppets in popular culture. The paper begins by highlighting the paucity of disciplinary interest in puppets and the productive potential of puppets and puppetry for a range of sub-disciplines within human geography. A content analysis of 50 films, television programmes and fictional texts is presented, through which a dimensional model of puppets in popular culture is developed to stimulate further work in this area. Utilitarian (role and extent), relational (individual and social) and qualitative (puppetness and ontology) dimensions describe the many and varied ways in which puppets are used in popular culture. The diverse spaces that are created in such works through the interrogation of the human-puppet relationship are explored, with more extreme interpretations of puppetness generating the most peculiar – unique and strange – geographies. Subsequently, the cultural analysis is related to conceptual developments from geographical work on comics and cartoons to advance a conceptual contribution. Integrating and inverting notions of borderscape and topological gulf accommodates the simultaneous maintenance and elimination of human-puppet distinctiveness found to be essential to the peculiar geographies of puppetry.

From Templates to Heuristics: How and Why to Move Beyond the Gioia Methodology

2020 ◽  
pp. 109442812096771
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Mees-Buss ◽  
Catherine Welch ◽  
Rebecca Piekkari
Keyword(s):  
Field Data ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Epistemological Tradition ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Novel Theory ◽  
Interpretive Process ◽  
The Way

Researchers are exposed to multiple interpretive challenges in the journey from field data to theoretical understanding. A common response to these challenges is to turn to the guidance of templates such as the Gioia methodology—currently a preferred template for interpretive management research. Given its popularity, we examine how this methodology approaches the interpretive process of fieldwork. We find that the inductive route to theory that it offers does not address the challenges of interpretation. As an alternative, we propose a return to the epistemological tradition of hermeneutics. We argue that fieldwork informed by a hermeneutic orientation is able to generate credible and novel theory by confronting the challenges of interpretation head on. This process cannot be represented by the orderly steps of a template. We argue that a return to a hermeneutic orientation opens the way to more plausible and insightful theories based on interpretive rather than procedural rigor, and we offer a set of heuristics to guide both researchers and reviewers along this path.

Spaces and Times of Québec in Two Films by Xavier Dolan

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Marshall
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Introductory Section ◽  
The Way

After an introductory section which places the film career of Xavier Dolan within the context of the transnational and other changes that have affected Québec cinema since 2000, this article seeks to explore two of his films, Laurence Anyways (2012) and Tom à la ferme (2013), by bringing together insights from queer theory, cultural geography, and Foucauldian analyses of space and power. The space of the cinematic frame is explored in conjunction with examinations of the ‘outside belongings’ of Montreal balconies, the place of the suburbs, heterotopias, rural/urban, and the ‘closet’. This approach in turn sheds light on Dolan's probing of the boundaries that regulate the ‘normal’, and the way his multiple framing techniques point to altered perceptions amongst millennials of Québec's place in North America and the wider world.

scholarly journals O pensamento geográfico e as aproximações com o humanismo: mundo e lugar nas letras das canções de Chico Buarque

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Carolina Machado Rocha Busch Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Vie Quotidienne ◽  
The World ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Geographical Perspective ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

ResumoAs letras das canções de Chico Buarque são portadoras de sentidos, revelam o mundo e possuem potência geográfica para dialogar com o mundo, o lugar e o cotidiano a partir das relações que emolduram a vida. Este ensaio tem o objetivo de refletir sobre a potência das letras das canções de Chico Buarque pela perspectiva geográfica humanista. O lugar tem um sentido e constitui parte essencial da existência humana. Consequentemente, a experiência no mundo-lugar está ligada à forma como se percebe o mundo a partir do espaço-tempo-sentido. Desta forma o ensaio apresenta as geografias reveladas pela letra das canções, a partir do tripé espaço-tempo-sentido, que desvenda o lugar do sujeito, a existência e as possibilidades. As letras das canções de Chico Buarque dialogam com o lugar enquanto elo do mundo, expressão das relações, aproximações com o mundo a partir do espaço-tempo-sentido. As geografias de mundo reveladas nas letras das canções de Chico Buarque apresentam as relações vividas em referências espaciais e temporais.Palavras-chave: Geografia Cultural, Fenomenologia, Música. AbstractChico Buarque’s lyrics convey meanings and bring the world to light. They also have geographical strength to dialogue with the world, places and everyday life, starting from the relations that make up life. The aim of this essay is to reflect on the strength of Chico Buarque’s song lyrics from a humanistic geographical perspective. The place has a meaning and constitutes an essential part of human existence. Consequently, the experience in the place-world depends on the way by which the individual perceives the world from the space-time-sense. In this way the .the essay proposes the geographies shown in the song lyrics from the tripod space-time-sense. Chico Buarque’s song lyrics dialogue with the place as world link, expression of relationships, approaches to the world from the space-time-sense. The world geographies revealed in the lyrics of Chico Buarque songs show relationships lived in spatial and temporal references.Key-words: Cultural Geography, Phenomenology, Music. RésuméLes paroles des chansons Chico Buarque sont porteurs de significations, révéler le monde et ont le pouvoir géographique pour le dialogue avec le monde, le lieu et la vie quotidienne des relations que la vie de cadre. Cet essai vise à réfléchir sur la puissance des paroles de chansons de Chico Buarque point de vue géographique humaniste. L'endroit a un sens et une partie essentielle de l'existence humaine. Par conséquent, l'expérience dans le monde place est liée à la façon dont ils perçoivent le monde à partir de l'espace-temps-sens. De cette façon, le test montre géographiques révélés par la lettre des chansons du trépied espace-temps-sens, qui révèle la place du sujet, l'existence et les possibilités. Les paroles de chanson de Chico Buarque dialogue avec l'endroit comme lien de monde, l'expression de relations, les approches dans le monde de l'espace-temps-sens. Les géographies du monde révélés dans les paroles des chansons Chico Buarque montrent relations vivaient dans les références spatiales et temporelles.Mots-clés: Géographie Culturelle, la Phénoménologie, Musique. 

scholarly journals Trackless mourning: the mobilities of love and loss

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Related Line ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

In response to recent work in cultural geography on the spatial practices of mourning and remembrance, I draw upon my own research on the discourse of romantic love (in the field of literary and cultural theory) in order to theorise a connection between the memorial practices associated with the ‘life’ of a relationship and those pursued in retrospect. Through a focus on embodied mobility, I propose that there are implicit links between the way in which we create and store memories ( à propos Bergson), the way we protect and project them (the processes commonly associated with nostalgia) and the way we activate them in later years (memorialisation). A secondary – but related – line of argument concerns the distinction between public (and ‘spectacular’) and private (and ‘invisible’) memorial practices and the function of mobilities of various kinds within each. With reference to a small selection of autobiographical and literary texts, I reflect upon the way in which burials (in the Christian tradition) have, for centuries, been inscribed by spectacular hypermobility (for the deceased as well as the bereaved) and how, by contrast, our more private memorial practices are often invisible precisely because they exist only as micro-mobilities of some kind. For while mourning may involve visits to memorials in the landscape (as explored in the work of Avril Maddrell and others), it may equally take the form of walks (or drives) devoid of both destination and visible trace (what I refer to here as a ‘trackless mourning’) or express itself in the smallest of gestures that, unbeknown to the world, unite the deceased and the bereaved.

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