The creation of imperial space in the Pacific Northwest

Colonialism and Landscape in the Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations and Continuing Consequences

“…In contrast to Harris, other recent research on B.C. also influenced by postcolonial studies almost entirely ignores material processes (Willems-Braun 1997;Sparke 1998;Clayton 2000). Striking (but unacknowledged) commonalities exist between that B.C.…”

Travels with feminist historical geography

“…Historical geographies of difference-understanding the historical conditions in which the categories of difference (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age) are inscribed and reinforcedare implicitly and often explicitly informed by feminist and post-colonialist theorists such as Judith Butler, Joan Scott and Gayatri Spivak. These new historical geographies of difference have confronted and decentered urban history (Boyer, 1998;Ogborn, 1998), colonial history (Jacobs, 1996;Clayton 2000), and, as Catherine Nash (1999) suggests, even environmental history, a body of literature that she argues has been most impervious to incorporating 'difference. '…”

Yellowstone as “Landscape Idea”: Thomas Moran and the Pictorial Practices of Gilded-Age Western Exploration

“…Landscape representations in nineteenth-century America narrated and pictured westward expansion (Boime 1991;Cosgrove 1998Cosgrove [1984 ;Daniels 1993;John 2001;Marx 1988;Truettner 1991), the development of cities and urban growth (Schein 1993); the modern capitalist state (Cosgrove 1998(Cosgrove [1984), and U.S. imperialism in the western territories (Clayton 2000;John 2001;McClintock 1995;Morin 1999). Consequently landscape discourse comprised a range of historicalgeographical practices-from the commissioning, production, publication, and circulation of landscape paintings, sketches, and descriptions to the conducting of scientific exploration and the resultant production of maps and publication of scientific data-all drawing or pressing upon to varying degrees prevailing constructions of nationhood, race, and gender (Hannah 2000;Kirsch 2002;Myers 2002;Nelson 1998) as well as conventions of authorship and authority (Braun 2000;Cosgrove and Domosh 1993;A.…”