Travelling landscape-objects

Dora, Veronica della

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“…Interestingly, the Muses were primarily the goddesses of the mountains and lakes. An ecomuseum is a museum of culture, nature, and history without walls; spread over a geographical area (Davis, 2011;Karp et al, 1992); promoting society-landscape relations (Babic, 2009;Zapletal;; associating the 'exhibits' to the forms, functions, and values of the wider natural and human environment; and creating an awareness of history in a territory, by those creating history: the communities. An ecomuseum is a community-oriented museum that involves a multi-level approach, from local to global and vice versa, resisting the trends towards commercialization and commodification of the commons (Bigell, 2012;Zizek, 2009;Hess, 2008).…”

Section: The Ecomuseum As a Territorial Assetmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ecomuseums focus on the identification, analysis, and processing of humanplace/landscape interrelations and on the interpretation of cultural landscape, emphasizing their interconnectedness and offering the background for an integrated tourism policy (Davis, 2011). An ecomuseum impacts on the protection, management, and planning of the cultural landscape (Zapletal, 2012;Maggi, 2002), and particularly on the combination of geological, morphological, ecological, socio-economic, ethnographic, historical, archaeological, aesthetic, mythological, symbolic, and other tangible and intangible elements and characteristics of a place.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These are the main interesting points that differentiate ecomuseums from traditional top-downoriented museums and from other bottom-up-oriented museums, such as geoparks, that are not able to capture the special nature and the physiognomy of places (Davis, 2011). Local communities maintain the control and management of their ecomuseums, on the basis of a social contract, entailing the keeping of ethical commitments to society and community and including continuous public consultation towards the fulfilment of a vision of sustainable local development (de Varine, 1996;Maggi, 2002;Massey, 2014).…”

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North Aegean island landscapes as ecomuseums: the case of Lesvos Island

Pavlis¹

2017

ISJ

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The main advantage of the Aegean islands, in generating national, regional, or international competitiveness, compared to the areas on the continental mainland, is their natural and cultural assets, their cultural landscapes. Consequently, the organized utilization of cultural heritage, rich biodiversity, and the unique Aegean landscape, could make the islands attractive as places to live or work and help them fulfill their sustainability goals. Ecomuseums are 'in situ' museums, aimed at local communities and managed by them, aiming at the interpretation, protection, utilization, and promotion of natural and cultural assets of a place, and at the economic revival of marginal regions through the combinational development of small-scale tourism, local manufacturing, and primary production sectors. They could function as laboratories of sustainable development. The island of Lesvos has been selected as a case study for such a potential ecomuseum.

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Section: The Ecomuseum As a Territorial Assetmentioning

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North Aegean island landscapes as ecomuseums: the case of Lesvos Island

Pavlis¹

2017

ISJ

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“…Simultaneously, these concepts "local" and "global" should not be reified, with the concept of local, for example, not representing homogenous or bound cultural units but more fruitfully seen as revolving around "contested fields of social signification and interconnection, flows of people, ideas, images and goods" (Moore 2004, 78). Travelling artifacts moving through global landscapes, regardless of their original function and form, become mobilized and materialize in particular ways (Della Dora 2009;Mavhunga, Cuvelier & Pype 2016). Without dismissing Iceland's interconnectedness with the wider world in the past (Agnarsdóttir 2008), Costco, as a travelling object, can be seen as one more addition to intensified mobility in terms of ideas, people and cultural artifacts that have characterized Iceland in multiple ways (Loftsdóttir & Skaptadóttir 2016;Lund & Jóhannesson 2014;Lund, Kjartansdóttir & Loftsdóttir 2017).…”

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The opening of Costco in Iceland: Unexpected meanings of globalized phenomenon

Loftsdóttir¹,

Mixa²

2017

irpa

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The multinational retailer, Costco, opened its first store in Iceland during spring 2017. Not only was the opening greatly anticipated but following the store opening, Costco became one of the key issues in the Icelandic media. Our analysis focuses on Costco's opening from insights derived from theories of globalization of mobility, where we emphasize that discussions about Costco in Iceland cannot be separated from the post-crash atmosphere after the massive economic crash in 2008. Our perspective is particularly influenced by Tsing's (2005) emphasis on the unpredictability of global phenomena that move around and transplant in a new context. Our analysis both contextualize Costco's arrival within Iceland's historical and social context and analyzes some of the main themes in the Icelandic media discussion during the opening. The dualistic opposition of 'us' (Icelanders) against 'them' (foreigners), which has been quite salient in Iceland, were largely invisible in discussions about Costco's opening. Costco in Iceland was quickly incorporated into a discourse as a positive force against Icelandic corruption that started after the crash. The 'us against them' themes thus turned from being 'Icelanders against foreigners' into 'the Icelandic population against Iceland's elite retail sector.

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“…Much scholarship has been allocated to understanding space and components of spatiality (Sklar 1977;Herbert 2000;Scollon & Scollon 2003;Dant 2004;Thrift 2006Thrift , 2008Della Dora 2009;Jones 2009Eriksson 2011Merriman 2011), yet, there has been a noticeable ambiguity in breadth and scope as a result of a growing fragmentation in relation to analytical specificity. Following the analytical orientation exemplified by Wertsch (1991Wertsch ( , 1994Wertsch ( , 1995Wertsch ( , 1998Wertsch ( , 2005, Scollon (1998Scollon ( , 2001Scollon ( , 2005Scollon ( , 2008, Norris (2003Norris ( , 2004Norris ( , 2005Norris ( , 2008Norris ( , 2010Norris ( , 2011Norris ( , 2012 and Jones (2005aJones ( , 2005bJones ( , 2011aJones ( , 2011bJones ( , 2011cJones ( , 2012, in this article I seek to reconcile some of this ambiguity through the re-invocation of the mediated action as the primary organising analytical principle through which space and spatiality can be approached.…”

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Actionary pertinence: Space to place in kitesurfing

Geenen¹

2013

Journal Multimodal Communication

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Contemporary research investigating the phenomena of lifestyle sport has highlighted the centrality of space, spatiality and spatial appropriation. Lifestyle sports tend to manifest in liminal and/or unbounded spaces with practitioners drawing upon the affordances of the natural environment in new and unique ways. Simultaneously, practitioners employ continuously evolving technical tools (equipment) in the undertaking of these activities. This article articulates the ways in which the specialised equipment employed as mediational means affect the perception, interpretation and valuation of physical components of the natural and man-made environment. In this article, I introduce the notion of actionary pertinence and concept of locational element through the analysis of the ways in which general geographic areas (spaces) become actual kitesurfing locations (places) for specific social actors through mediated action and in direct connection to the mediational means through which action occurs. Drawing upon data generated through a year-long video ethnography, I argue that components of the physical environment become locational elements for specific social actors in and through mediated action. This explicitly extends theorisation regarding how mediational means affect and structure the nature of the action they mediate (Vygotsky 1978(Vygotsky , 1987Wertsch 1991Wertsch , 1998, and extends this argument by exemplifying how mediational means also affect and structure the perception and interpretation of physical components of the environment which have a bearing on mediated action. Furthermore, I articulate the ways in which these locational elements are considered, read, re-read and interpreted in terms of their actionary pertinence. Thus, the materiality of locational elements manifests as salient and/or relevant through the bearing an element has on specific mediated actions and practices. Vol 2(2): 123-153 multimodal communication Brought to you by | Carleton University OCUL Authenticated Download Date | 7/7/15 7:12 PM Therefore, in my analysis of kitesurfing locations, I assert that through mediated action and practices, space becomes place and in this process material components of the physical environment acquire particular valuations in relation to mediated action. Then, I illustrate how consideration of location is permeated by the ways in which kitesurfers conceptualise locational elements through three organising principles: possibility, safety and favourability. In doing so, I hope to show how social actors conceive, perceive and interpret components of the physical environment in explicit connection with systems of mediated action (Norris, 124 multimodal communication Brought to you by | Carleton University OCUL Authenticated Download Date | 7/7/15 7:12 PM Brought to you by | Carleton University OCUL Authenticated Download Date | 7/7/15 7:12 PMKitesurfing can only be performed on water. Moreover, the nature of the water must be adequately suited to the velocity, trajectory and distances travelled while k...

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Travelling landscape-objects

Cited by 53 publications

References 65 publications

North Aegean island landscapes as ecomuseums: the case of Lesvos Island

North Aegean island landscapes as ecomuseums: the case of Lesvos Island

The opening of Costco in Iceland: Unexpected meanings of globalized phenomenon

Actionary pertinence: Space to place in kitesurfing

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