This thesis focuses on the ways in which Janet Morton’s installations explore geographic and architectural spatial arrangements, and the ways in which these arrangements reproduce hierarchies of gender, race, and class. As cultural geographers and architectural historians have argued, and as I argue in the context of Morton’s work, architecture and geography exist in a reciprocal relationship with the social context in which they exist. Consequently, social histories that amass in politicized spaces referred to as “home,” such as gendered suburban houses, urban shelters, segregated neighbourhoods, are often marginalized. By discussing the way Morton’s work alludes to marginalized social and spatial histories within home environments, I demonstrate the ways that mainstream understanding of the subordination of marginalized groups is informed by sociospatial histories. / Thesis (Master, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2007-08-07 15:32:00.667

Recent literature in cultural geography has turned its attention to the enactment of landscape through performance. Drawing upon the insights of new cultural geography and non-representational theory, this thesis examines the performative enactments of “place” through the production of landscape representations on the Islands of the Salish Sea. In particular, I adopt a narrative approach to consider how the embodied and discursive performances of becoming-artist and the enactment of landscape are co-constituted. Through a comparative case study of four Islands in the Salish Sea – San Juan, Lopez, Salt Spring, and Pender Islands – the current study provides an embodied account of the practices of landscape representation based upon fieldwork, participant observation, and 13 semi-structured interviews with landscape artists on the Islands. This is followed by a thematic analysis of recurring imagery in landscape paintings with a focus on representations of the rural scene, property relations, nationalism, and “unpeopled” landscapes. I conclude that landscape representations are both discursive and experiential in their performative enactments of place. / Graduate / 0366 / jolenejackson12@gmail.com

What role does place differentiation play in contemporary urban redevelopment processes, and how is it constructed, practiced, and governed? Under heightened forms of interurban competition fueled by processes of globalization, there is a desire by place-makers to construct and market a unique sense of place. While there is consensus that place promotion plays a role in reconstructing landscapes, how place differentiation operates – and can be operationalized – in processes of urban redevelopment is under-theorized in the literature. In this thesis, I produce a typology of four strategies of differentiation – negation, coherence, residue, multiplicity – which reside within capital transformations and which require activation by a set of social actors. I situate these ideas via an examination of the redevelopment of the Gooderham and Worts distillery, renamed the Distillery District, which opened to the public in 2003. Under the direction of the private sector, the site was transformed from a space of alcohol production to a space of cultural consumption. The developers used a two pronged approach for the site’s redevelopment: historic preservation and arts-led regeneration. Using a mixed method approach including textual analysis, in-depth interviews, visual analysis, and site observation, I examine the strategies used to market the Distillery as a distinct place, and the effects of this marketing strategy on the valuation of art, history, and space. Two central arguments direct the thesis: first, in an attempt to construct place differentiation, what emerges is a sense of sameness which limits the potential of the district and produces a disconnect between the space and its users; second, it is only by understanding how differentiation operates in discourse and practice that alternative formations of place-making can emerge and socio-spatial disconnectedness can be rethought.

What role does place differentiation play in contemporary urban redevelopment processes, and how is it constructed, practiced, and governed? Under heightened forms of interurban competition fueled by processes of globalization, there is a desire by place-makers to construct and market a unique sense of place. While there is consensus that place promotion plays a role in reconstructing landscapes, how place differentiation operates – and can be operationalized – in processes of urban redevelopment is under-theorized in the literature. In this thesis, I produce a typology of four strategies of differentiation – negation, coherence, residue, multiplicity – which reside within capital transformations and which require activation by a set of social actors. I situate these ideas via an examination of the redevelopment of the Gooderham and Worts distillery, renamed the Distillery District, which opened to the public in 2003. Under the direction of the private sector, the site was transformed from a space of alcohol production to a space of cultural consumption. The developers used a two pronged approach for the site’s redevelopment: historic preservation and arts-led regeneration. Using a mixed method approach including textual analysis, in-depth interviews, visual analysis, and site observation, I examine the strategies used to market the Distillery as a distinct place, and the effects of this marketing strategy on the valuation of art, history, and space. Two central arguments direct the thesis: first, in an attempt to construct place differentiation, what emerges is a sense of sameness which limits the potential of the district and produces a disconnect between the space and its users; second, it is only by understanding how differentiation operates in discourse and practice that alternative formations of place-making can emerge and socio-spatial disconnectedness can be rethought.

This thesis presents a multi-sited and multi-scalar ethnography of the processes and practices through which producers attempt to designate food as heritage. Grounded in cultural geography, it adopts a cultural economy approach to addressing concerns within agro-food studies by joining in conversation notions of heritage, place-making and time. By underlining the intrinsic relation between articulations of time and constructions of place, this thesis further maps the alternative geographies of food. It engages with three overarching questions, drawing on research conducted within two heritage-based food initiatives in Mexico and Scotland, both linked to the Slow Food movement. These produce, respectively, a traditional sweet called pinole and 'real' bread. The thesis asks: what objectives are pursued through the heritagisation of food whereby various actors strategically coin foods as heritage? How is time articulated in the discourse of heritage food, and how do heritage food networks and producers understand time as a component of food quality? Finally, what senses of place emerge from the various uses of time as a quality in global, translocal and local heritage food discourses? This thesis explores Slow Food's heritage qualification scheme and the ensuing commodification of heritage food, as well as translocal networks, and practices of 'slow' production. Through empirical engagements it argues that the qualification of heritage foods is multifunctional and that various articulations of time enable small-scale producers to engage with a plethora of socio-economic and political issues. Numerous and at times conflicting constructions of place surface from the discourses woven around these two heritage products and problematise identity formation and narratives of the past linked to producers and communities. This thesis concludes that the constructions of place associated with heritage foods depend not only upon the authority and circumstances of actors articulating a heritage discourse, but also on the scale of the dissemination of that discourse, and on the notions and understandings of time associated with heritage and place.

O cartão-postal, meio de comunicação do século passado, ganhou popularidade e constituiu um item para colecionadores. Privilegiando as imagens das cidades, a produção dos cartões-postais está repleta de uma carga simbólica das formas, uma linguagem própria que a semiologia icônica nos ajuda a compreender. Nesse sentido, a geografia cultural, preocupada com o papel e o lugar da cultura na produção do espaço, é a base conceitual deste trabalho, sobretudo, por meio da releitura do conceito de paisagem ligado às tradições do romantismo alemão. Assim, tendo como objeto de estudo os cartões-postais que representam a natureza e a cidade do Rio de Janeiro no período de 1900 a 1935, pretende-se, nesta dissertação, interpretar e compreender a construção simbólica que se fez da imagem da cidade do Rio de Janeiro a partir da leitura das paisagens cariocas apresentadas em seus cartões-postais. Sendo assim, verificaram-se, na análise dos signos, mensagens vinculadas às ideias de paraíso tropical e cidade moderna. Ambas, interrelacionando-se, contribuíram para a construção da representação de Cidade Maravilhosa. / Postcards, way of communication of the last century, gained popularity and was items for collectors. Focusing on images of cities, production of postcards was filled with a symbolic power of its forms, its own language that iconic semiology helps us to understand. In this sense, cultural geography, concerned with function and place of culture in production of space, is the conceptual basis of this work, especially the reinterpretation of the concept of landscape which is connected to traditions of German romanticism. Therefore, the object of this study is postcards which represented nature and the city of Rio de Janeiro during the period between 1900 and 1935. This work also intends to interpret and understand symbolic constructions of the image of Rio de Janeiro, from the reading of landscapes of this city which are presented in those postcards. Thus, in the analysis of signs, messages connected to ideas of tropical paradise and modern city were also analyzed. Both are interrelating and contribute to construction of the representation of Cidade Maravilhosa (The Marvelous City).

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Orientador: Liliana Bueno dos Reis Garcia / Banca: Regina Araujo de Almeida / Banca: Maria Tereza Duarte Paes Luchiari / Banca: Fadel David Antonio Filho / Banca: Solange Terezinha de Lima Guimarães / Resumo: Cada povo, cada cultura tem um modo diferenciado de se apropriar do espaço geográfico, construindo nele suas representações sociais e identidades territoriais/paisagísticas, formando a paisagem cultural. Na Amazônia brasileira, a paisagem é fruto da relação entre sociedade e Natureza. Ali, vivem comunidades indígenas e comunidades tradicionais, como ribeirinhos e seringueiros, cuja sobrevivência está relacionada diretamente aos recursos naturais que a floresta amazônica oferece. No entanto, as formas de ocupação amazônica, no decorrer dos anos, vêm afetando diretamente, e de modo negativo, os povos da floresta. A comunidade indígena, objeto deste estudo, da etnia Apurinã, vive na região do médio rio Purus, afluente da margem direita do Rio Amazonas, desde o século XIX. Eles possuem uma relação direta com a Natureza e não estão isolados deste processo histórico. Nossa abordagem analisa a paisagem amazônica, através do estudo de caso realizado com a comunidade indígena Apurinã do Igarapé Mucuim (AM), com a finalidade de investigar por que pode ser identificada como comunidade conservacionista, e quais fatores determinam a sustentabilidade, ao mesmo tempo em que aponta as principais ameaças para a conservação ambiental e preservação cultural diante das influências capitalistas prevalentes na região amazônica. / Abstract: Each people, each culture has a way differentiated of to appropriate of the geographic space, constructing in it social representations and territories/landscape identities, forming the cultural landscape. In the Brazilian Amazônia, the landscape is fruit of the relation between society and Nature. There, aboriginal communities and traditional communities, as "ribeirinhos" and seringueiros live, whose survival is related directly to the natural resources that the Amazonian forest offers. However, the forms of Amazonian occupation, in time, come directly affecting, and in negative way, the peoples of the forest. The aboriginal community, object of this study, the etnia Apurinã, lives in the region of the region river Purus, tributary of the right edge of the River Amazon, since century XIX. They possess a direct relation with the Nature and they are not isolated of this historical process. Our boarding analyzes the Amazonian landscape, through the study of case realized with the aboriginal community Apurinã of Igarapé Mucuim (AM), with the purpose to investigate why it can be identified as sustainable community, and which factors determine the sustainable, at the same time that points the main threats to the environmental conservation and cultural preservation in front of the capitalist influences in the Amazon region. / Doutor

O cartão-postal, meio de comunicação do século passado, ganhou popularidade e constituiu um item para colecionadores. Privilegiando as imagens das cidades, a produção dos cartões-postais está repleta de uma carga simbólica das formas, uma linguagem própria que a semiologia icônica nos ajuda a compreender. Nesse sentido, a geografia cultural, preocupada com o papel e o lugar da cultura na produção do espaço, é a base conceitual deste trabalho, sobretudo, por meio da releitura do conceito de paisagem ligado às tradições do romantismo alemão. Assim, tendo como objeto de estudo os cartões-postais que representam a natureza e a cidade do Rio de Janeiro no período de 1900 a 1935, pretende-se, nesta dissertação, interpretar e compreender a construção simbólica que se fez da imagem da cidade do Rio de Janeiro a partir da leitura das paisagens cariocas apresentadas em seus cartões-postais. Sendo assim, verificaram-se, na análise dos signos, mensagens vinculadas às ideias de paraíso tropical e cidade moderna. Ambas, interrelacionando-se, contribuíram para a construção da representação de Cidade Maravilhosa. / Postcards, way of communication of the last century, gained popularity and was items for collectors. Focusing on images of cities, production of postcards was filled with a symbolic power of its forms, its own language that iconic semiology helps us to understand. In this sense, cultural geography, concerned with function and place of culture in production of space, is the conceptual basis of this work, especially the reinterpretation of the concept of landscape which is connected to traditions of German romanticism. Therefore, the object of this study is postcards which represented nature and the city of Rio de Janeiro during the period between 1900 and 1935. This work also intends to interpret and understand symbolic constructions of the image of Rio de Janeiro, from the reading of landscapes of this city which are presented in those postcards. Thus, in the analysis of signs, messages connected to ideas of tropical paradise and modern city were also analyzed. Both are interrelating and contribute to construction of the representation of Cidade Maravilhosa (The Marvelous City).