Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Cities as Haunted Landscapes

Cities as Haunted Landscapes City & Society Forum By Nadir Kinossian Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Recently, cities in Europe and the USA have witnessed public debates and violent clashes provoked by decisions to remove monuments. Decisions to protect, abandon, or demolish monuments stem from conflicting interpretations of the past by contemporary actors. According to Laurajane Smith (2006), the most resourceful actors and groups promote their interpretations of the past, which then become parts of official heritage, or the authorized heritage discourse. Heritage and architecture are used by elites to shape collective identities and gain influence. Conflicting ideas about religious and ethnic identities, or the past, as expressed in architecture and monuments, can be divisive and provoke tensions and conflicts. Unlike architecture and monumental art, landscapes do not function as a medium for transmitting ideologically charged messages to the public. Human geography ‘discovered’ landscape in the twentieth century, since when anthropologists, human geographers, and art historians have contributed to studies of symbolic and cultural landscape. Cosgrove (1998) conceptualizes landscape as the “way of seeing”, implying a mutually constitutive relationship between the viewers and landscape. According to Mitchell (2003), such ways of seeing are pluralist but at the same time contingent and influenced by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Cities as Haunted Landscapes

City & Society , Volume 30 (1) – Jan 1, 2018

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/cities-as-haunted-landscapes-Zv0IDO9Qe4

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2018 by the American Anthropological Association
ISSN
0893-0465
eISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1111/ciso.12151
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

City & Society Forum By Nadir Kinossian Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Recently, cities in Europe and the USA have witnessed public debates and violent clashes provoked by decisions to remove monuments. Decisions to protect, abandon, or demolish monuments stem from conflicting interpretations of the past by contemporary actors. According to Laurajane Smith (2006), the most resourceful actors and groups promote their interpretations of the past, which then become parts of official heritage, or the authorized heritage discourse. Heritage and architecture are used by elites to shape collective identities and gain influence. Conflicting ideas about religious and ethnic identities, or the past, as expressed in architecture and monuments, can be divisive and provoke tensions and conflicts. Unlike architecture and monumental art, landscapes do not function as a medium for transmitting ideologically charged messages to the public. Human geography ‘discovered’ landscape in the twentieth century, since when anthropologists, human geographers, and art historians have contributed to studies of symbolic and cultural landscape. Cosgrove (1998) conceptualizes landscape as the “way of seeing”, implying a mutually constitutive relationship between the viewers and landscape. According to Mitchell (2003), such ways of seeing are pluralist but at the same time contingent and influenced by

Journal

City & SocietyWiley

Published: Jan 1, 2018

There are no references for this article.