Articulating Identity In and Through Maine's North Woods

Hutchins, Karen; Stormer, Nathan

doi:10.1080/17524032.2012.749412

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“…This hybrid discourse-content analysis supports the idea that the analysis of informal documents can complement other research methods and data (Hutchins and Stormer 2013) such as participant-observation, interviews, and public hearing transcripts (or resource management plans) in order to excavate place identity and the processes through which it is formed. This multiperspectival approach mixes quantitative and qualitative data (Feltham-King and Macleod 2016) but is also methodologically informed by an ethnographic sensibility (Altheide 1987, Anderson 2012, Townsend 2013, Scholl et al 2014.…”

Section: Data Collection and Analysissupporting

confidence: 62%

Branding Wakatobi: marine development and legitimation by science

Tam¹

2019

E&S

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Marine protected areas (MPAs) serve as a potential defense against marine degradation, meeting the conflicting priorities and needs of multiple actors. Biodiversity, conservation, and ecotourism constitute a triad of sustainability tropes in tropical MPAs that intersect with and reinterpret local histories of marine interaction, subsistence, and commercial extraction. Science is implicated in this production of resource space, with the state and other actors conscripting science to legitimate particular visions of sustainability. A content and discourse analysis of science-based communication instruments about Wakatobi National Park in Indonesia reveals a process of place branding an MPA as unique biological-economic resource space. Legitimation of science privileges scientific knowledge to promote neoliberal development as economic sustainability. Legitimation by science produces an MPA identity of a paradise of marine biodiversity worthy of conservation as ecological sustainability. And, the construction and absence of local human subjects affects their role as constrained agents in resource space. The result is weak social sustainability.

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Section: Data Collection and Analysissupporting

confidence: 62%

Branding Wakatobi: marine development and legitimation by science

Tam¹

2019

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“…Place only becomes a symbolically charged concept when individuals perceive them as socially meaningful (Osborne 2006). The occurrence of social events within a geographic area imbues surroundings with personalized meanings and produces psychological attachments, which together form one's "sense of place" (Hutchins and Stormer 2013;Williams et al 2010). When government actions and the distributive effects of policy depend on different spatial arrangements, individuals use information related to place in order to make sense of their personal stakes, their thoughts and their justifications for their political beliefs being, "not just anywhere, [but] somewhere in particular" (Carbaugh and Cerulli 2013, 7; also see Moore 2012).…”

Section: Place As a Social Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Place-Based Imagery and Voter Evaluations: Experimental Evidence on the Politics of Place

Jacobs

Munis

2018

Political Research Quarterly

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Prior research has shown that social identities defined by an attachment to place (i.e., “place-based” identities) are influential in shaping how citizens understand and think about political topics. Moreover, prior research has also argued that candidates sometimes use “place-based appeals” in order to win support among the electorate, and that such appeals are seemingly widespread. While past research has provided a rich understanding of what place-based identity and place-based appeals are, there is a large gap in what we know about the causal effects of such appeals. In this study, we address this gap by testing experimentally the effects of place-based appeals on voters’ evaluation of candidate likeability and ability to understand their constituents, across the broader American patchwork. Using a set of modified campaign mailer advertisements, we alter whether respondents see an ad that uses rural or urban imagery when introducing a candidate. Our results indicate that, consistent with existing theory, place-based appeals are impactful in shaping political evaluations among rural voters, but do not appear as relevant for urban voters. Overall, we argue that place—or symbolically charged geographical sites—is a useful, widespread, and potentially powerful political heuristic.

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“…Significantly, Druschke complicates Clark's understanding of land by describing its impermanence, or how land--in the topos of watershed--changes (2013). In their essay on identity and Maine's North Woods, Hutchins and Stormer (2013) write that the impermanence of land is often revealed through conflict and disruption. Using articulation theory, Hutchins and Stormer write that land is "an element within a system of practices related to it," entangled with discourse, identity, and practices that, together, construct place and identity (2013, pp.…”

Section: Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Public Land, and the Spaces of Whiteness

Smith

2021

Front. Commun.

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In this essay, I examine the 2016 takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The principal instigators of this occupation, the Bundy family of Nevada, pointed to federally owned public lands as the primary reason for their takeover, citing the allegedly unconstitutional government ownership of these lands. I contend that the Bundys’ arguments about public lands exemplify rhetorical strategies that further one of the primary ends of settler colonialism; the remaking of land into property to better support white settlers’ claims to that land. I hold that the Bundys remake land by defining the land’s meanings following the logics of settler colonialism in three specific ways: privatization, racialization, and erasure. First, I examine the family’s arguments about the constitutionality of federal land ownership to show how the Bundys define public lands as rightfully private property. Second, I examine the ways that the Bundys racialize land ownership and how, in conjunction with arguments about property rights, the family articulates land as the domain of white settlers. Third, I discuss how the Bundys further colonial logics of Native erasure. That is, the family defines land in ways that portray Native Americans as having never been on the land, and as not currently using the land. I argue that these three processes render meanings of land––as private property, colonized, and terra nullius––that rhetorically further the operation of settler colonialism.

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Articulating Identity In and Through Maine's North Woods

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Branding Wakatobi: marine development and legitimation by science

Branding Wakatobi: marine development and legitimation by science

Place-Based Imagery and Voter Evaluations: Experimental Evidence on the Politics of Place

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Public Land, and the Spaces of Whiteness

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