Based on an analysis of the antecedents to legislation for the protection of natural beauty, and of subsequent efforts to analyse and describe fine landscapes, this paper considers the contested use of ‘natural beauty’ in current landscape policy.
[b1] University of Sheffield, Department of Landscape, Sheffield, Royaume-Uni
Monuments, power and contested space - the iconography of Sackville Street (O'Connell Street) before Independence (1922)
Cultural identity ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Dublin ; Historical geography ; Ireland ; Street ; Urban landscape ; Years 1920-29
The paper explores the iconography of Dublin's central thoroughfare, as it evolved in the decades before Independence. It makes use of metaphors such as the city as text and the iconography of landscape. It focuses on the role of public statuary
in articulating issues of cultural and political identity in a contested space. These public statues provide the geographer with an important lens through which to explore the processes at work in shaping the city.
Far from being the product of a monolithic culture, regional forestry or agrosilvipastoral landscapes are social products which have been described in a plurality of ways. They represent sites of contestation and cooperation for human agents
and state agencies. The A. juxtaposes several such contests, their meanings, and the discourses of which they are a part. This juxtaposition creates spaces for different landscape visions.
Singapore's little India : a tourist attraction as a contestedlandscape
Ce quartier historique de Singapour est étudié en tant que paysage urbain contesté. Il s'agit d'un territoire d'affrontement entre divers groupes, qui sont identifiés en fonction de leur plus ou moins grand degré d'attachement au quartier. Examen
Landscapes of Challenge and Change: Contested Views of the Cairngorms National Park
Cairngorms National Park ; Development ; Landscape ; Management ; National park ; Power ; Resource management ; Scotland ; United Kingdom ; contested views ; dwelling ; landscape
Développement ; Espace de contestation ; Gestion ; Gestion des ressources ; Parc national ; Paysage ; Pouvoir ; Royaume-Uni ; Scotland
space for the negotiation of contested claims regarding the park. Such claims reflect not only the relationship between people and place, or as Ingold (2000) puts it, the landscape as it is known to those who dwell in it; they also represent vested
The Scottish model of national parks reflects wider changes in the management of special or protected landscapes. This paper uses Ingold's dwelling conceptualisation of landscape to reflect on how material and cultural processes affect stakeholders
Globalisation, contest and paradox in a continuing cultural landscape : land reform in the New Zealand High Country
Agricultural land use ; Cultural landscape ; Land ; Land reform ; Land tenure ; Landscape dynamics ; Mountain ; New Zealand ; Pastoral ; South Island
La mondialisation est susceptible d'affecter profondément et rapidement des paysages culturels qui ont évolué lentement sur de longues périodes. Les transformations qui en résultent sont souvent contestées politiquement. Les mythes politiques
British Columbia ; Canada ; Citizenship ; Elite ; Financial flow ; Landscape ; Public space ; Racism ; Social reproduction ; Urban district ; Urban society ; Vancouver
The aim of this paper is to examine the reworking of the ideal public sphere in the context of a particular place and time : the contemporary landscape of an élite neighbourhood in Vancouver. The Shaughnessy landscape has long operated as a space
of hegemonic production for a dominant Anglo élite. This production was contested by Hong Kong Chinese cosmopolitians. It is argued that this contestation presents a significant rupture in the Canadian narrative of capitalism and modernity.
Music in the fields : constructing narratives of the late 19th century Hawaiian plantation cultural landscape
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Discourse ; Hawaii ; Music ; Plantation
The paper is theoretically underpinned by discourses on the contested nature intrinsic to cultural landscapes. Music is used as a means of exploring socio-cultural contexts. It studies the limited set of published lyrics of hole bushi, the music
of Japanese plantation workers in late 19th century Hawaii. The cultural landscapes of this immigrant group are extrapolated from their own lyrical narratives to show shifts in their constructions of landscapes of desire and landscapes of despair.
Colonization ; Cultural landscape ; Imperialism ; Pacific Region ; Political geography ; Site of memory
This historical park celebrates the “freedom” that the U.S. brought to the region. But this landscape sits at the nexus of several contested territories. Guam was seized in the 1898 Spanish-American War and experienced 50 years of dictatorship under
the Navy. Disagreements between the park service and the local people added to the contests. The park presents a discourse of American military heroism against the Japanese, at the expense of recognition of Chamorro suffering. It serves as a colonial tool.
Asia ; Burma ; China ; Cultural landscape ; Hong Kong ; Indonesia ; Japan ; Malaysia ; Political reform ; Poverty ; Public space ; Semiotics of space ; Singapore ; South Korea ; Sri Lanka ; Thailand ; Town ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban
landscape ; Urban morphology ; Urban social movement ; Vietnam
contestation de l'espace urbain en Birmanie. 6. Hors contrôle : paysages culturels émergents et mutation politique dans le Viêt Nam urbain. 7. Les espaces publics cosmopolites à Hong Kong. 8. Le village des pauvres confronté à l'Etat en 1997 : géographie de la
protestation à l'assemblée des pauvres (Thaïlande). 9. Négocier l'espace des rues à Yogyakarta, Indonésie. 10. Les règles du village : paysage et contestation du gouvernement dans les villes de Malaisie. 11. La ville coloniale s'indigénise : Colombo à la fin du
Negotiated dilemmas of landscape, place and Christian committment in a Suffolk parish
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; England ; Ideology ; Landscape ; Local government ; Place ; Religion ; Suffolk ; United Kingdom ; Value system
Individual and shared meanings invested in and interpreted from specific landscapes and places are contested, challenged and revised within a broader context of social and material relations. This paper analyses the dilemmas of religious identity
ContestedLandscapes of Urban Sprawl: Landscape Protection and Regional Planning in Scania, Sweden, 1932–1947
Conflict ; Landscape ; Periurban development ; Regional planning authority ; Scania ; Sweden ; Twentieth Century ; Urban planning ; Urban sprawl ; Urbanization ; environmental planning ; peri-urban development ; planning history ; urban fringe
Studies in landscape and planning history are used here in order to critically examine the debate on urban sprawl and to reveal embedded conflicts within spatial planning aiming to curb sprawl. The paper aims to illustrate this with an examination
of one of the earliest attempts to control peri-urban development at a regional level in Sweden. The discourse on sprawl is first introduced and the fruitfulness of landscape studies in capturing inherent and conflicting aims within planning is examined
. Subsequent analysis of the seemingly scattered and weak spatial planning of the 1930s and 1940s in Scania, Sweden, reveals an ad hoc regional plan, developed primarily in order to curb scattered development. The importance of the landscape discourse
(and in the landscape they help create) remain unresolved.
[b1] Department of Landscape Architecture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Contesting property development in coastal New Zealand : a case study of Ocean Beach, Hawke's Bay
Coastal environment ; Community ; Conflict ; Land ; Landscape ; New Zealand ; Property right ; Real estate development
Exemple de démarche d'aménagement côtier contesté (proposition d'une urbanisation nouvelle). L'opposition au complexe s'articule autour de trois grands domaines de préoccupation : impacts physiques et sociaux des changements, craintes de perdre la
Placing livestock in landscape studies : pastures new or out to graze?
Animals and the landscape
Cattle ; Landscape ; Livestock ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Research ; United Kingdom
The paper reviews research on livestock and landscape. It argues that farm animals have started to occupy a central position in landscape studies, opening up many new pastures for research. Using the example of cattle in the UK, the AA. consider how
livestock have been understood as text, as social constructions and as beings with their own lives. In each case, they note how the position of farm animals is contested and there is a need for a diversity of theoretical approaches to understand
these differences. The article calls for academics, practitioners and policy-makers to pay greater attention to the myriad ways in which livestock and landscape are intertwined.
Are There Counter-Landscapes? On Milk Trestles and Invisible Power Lines
Estonia ; Ideology ; Landscape polities ; Peasantry ; Power ; Resistance to change ; Rural landscape ; Social geography ; Social practice ; Soviet collective farming ; contestedlandscapes ; ethnographic field work
The paper takes its starting point from the duality in the Estonian rural landscape shaped by social practices. On the one hand, the changes and management of landscapes follow a political decision. At the same time, the old patterns of semi-legal
—their functions, meanings and the values behind this symbol. The article is based on ethnographic field work carried out between the years of 2001 and 2002 and traces the phenomenon of how living landscape transforms into deserted landscape; in other words, how
story becomes history. The paper shows how the milk trestle landscape functioned as a prolongation of the former landscape behind the ideological layers of the Soviet landscapes.
[b1] Centre for Landscape and Culture, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University
Contesting natural(ized) lawns : a geography of private green space in the Niagara region
Canada ; Environment ; Garden ; Green space ; Landscape ; Legislation ; Mat-vegetation ; Niagara ; North America ; Private space ; United States of America ; Urban environment ; Urban landscape
The eager gaze of the tourist meets our grandfathers' guns : producing and contesting the land of enchantment in Gallup, New Mexico
Amerindians ; Conflict ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; Landscape esthetics ; New Mexico ; Semiotics of space ; Tourism ; United States of America
Art ; Consumption ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Elite ; Human geography ; Production
L'A. examine comment des festivals artistiques périodiques opèrent une transformation des lieux, créant des environnements temporaires qui contribuent à la production et à la consommation culturelles. Stratégies des élites. Contestations possibles.