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{"title":"Home Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong","authors":"L. Law","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800302","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers how migrant women become embodied subjects in foreign cities. It draws on the experiences of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong, and their active creation of places in the city that emulate a ‘sense’ of home (through sights, sounds, tastes, aromas and so on). Rather than explicate extreme forms of bodily experience some women mediate in their working lives - such as physical containment, hunger or violence - I interrogate unconventional forms of body politics that take place outside Hong Kong homes. In examining spaces of the city where Filipinas engage in mass leisure activities, I shed light on the relationship between space, bodies and sensory experience. The senses are not merely an intrinsic property of the body - they are a situated practice that connects the body to overlapping spaces of power in the cultural economy of labour migration. By linking sensory experience to urban culture and power relations in the city, I offer alternative maps of people and places that tell us something different about diasporic experience and the political importance of geographies of the senses.","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116245837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature","authors":"P. White","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800309","url":null,"abstract":"his ideas in a different world. His ‘compass’ model can be applied, but the signs have all been reversed and it is the city that is losing jobs and people. The chapter titled ‘Then and now’ is succinct, but succeeds in using key indicators to show the extent and nature of change over the past century. The focus for Part II becomes that of sustainability: Chapter 8, ‘The quest for sustainability’ and Chapter 9, ‘Sustainable social cities of tomorrow’, catalogue a diverse set of examples and then develop both new concepts and the key strategic policy elements. The examples tend to be over-concentrated in south-east England, but are sufficient and varied to convey the intended messages. After a chapter on ‘Making it happen’, the book almost digresses with vignettes on ‘do-it-yourself’ new towns, including the long-running experiment on alternative technology at Machynlleth in Wales. A second vignette on ‘nimbies’ is of some interest, historical and contemporary, but has the effect of robbing the text of a more effective, and certainly needed, conclusion. The last paragraph of the book brings us back to Howard and his ‘century-old prescription’ but the momentum was lost somewhere along the way. Throughout Part II, the authors are less successful in presenting a coherent and focused discussion and although the material remains valuable, well presented and clearly expressed, the narrative loses something of its unity of purpose. This is certainly a book that can be recommended. It reminds us of key players and events in the evolution of urban planning and identifies the issues that both exist now and are likely to develop over the next few decades. Cities and their impacts on life in rural areas, land development processes and planning policies sometimes appear to be in some danger of becoming neglected parts of the geography curriculum. This book reminds us that they are mainstream, core issues that we neglect at our peril.","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131675218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural Nationalism, Westward Expansion and the Production of Imperial Landscape: George Catlin’s Native American West","authors":"G. E. John","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800203","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I approach artist George Catlin’s landscape paintings and descriptions of 1830s Native America as a constituent component of an ambivalent imperialist iconography that depicted American westward expansion and Indian policy during the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing upon iconological theory, I explore the multiple and often conflicting meanings encoded in Catlin’s work to show how his descriptions and images of the northern plains asserted his vision of the western landscape as Indian country, projecting a naturalistic, ‘scientific’ and purportedly authentic view of what was perceived as a rapidly fading scene. Although he claimed for his art an authenticity and naturalism drawn directly from nature, Catlin was profoundly influenced by a set of artistic and literary conventions propounded by those arguing for a distinctive national culture. Indeed, the American landscape and the Indian were symbols linking textually and aesthetically the natural environment and its aboriginal people to romantic notions of morality, exceptionality, and a national racial heritage. But while celebrating and promoting the Indian subject, nationalists painted a spectral picture of the Indians’ future complicit with Jacksonian policy designed to rid eastern lands of Native Americans. Catlin’s landscape paintings and descriptions problematically reproduced this irreconcilable tension in early nineteenth-century cultural nationalism and ultimately contributed to an imperial discourse on the Native American West: one that in Catlin’s works ambivalently contained its own critique, questioning the effects of westward expansion and Indian policy.","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115450356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Bioregionalism","authors":"M. Barlow","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800219","url":null,"abstract":"taken by the book, is that no mention is made of Bataille. This, presumably, reflects simply the timing of the original book. Having conveyed something of the book’s basic orientation, I shall try in the space remaining to provide some impressions of its overall significance. Firstly, those familiar with Bauman’s recent work will undoubtedly delight in seeing here the early shoots of ideas that have since blossomed to their fullest glory. Perhaps some of the seeds scattered in Culture as praxis fell on stony ground. The majority, however, have indeed flourished and since come to fruition in Bauman’s later works: one finds in Culture as praxis early discussions of the ideology of culture, ordering, the slimy, freedom, the stranger, the Other, fear, boundaries, space and spacing, and so on. Secondly, the book as a whole is an impressive and virtuosic piece of writing, able just as well to find a route through the dense thickets of the structuralist literature as it is to leap lightly from general systems theory to classical thought, from phenomenology to structuralism, between the American and British anthropological traditions, and so on. Finally, and most significantly of all, the approach Bauman adopts not only makes sense of structuralism whilst anticipating many of the developments of poststucturalism, but is as convincing an argument as one could hope for against not only the limited objectivism of positivist social science, but also the reactive, humanistic, subjectivist anti-positivist stances to which that train of thought growing out through structuralism and culminating in poststructuralism also bids farewell.","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114641058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Digital aesthetics","authors":"M. Crang","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800209","url":null,"abstract":"bution to an ongoing process of recognizing that fact. Given Curry’s focus on the collective practice of geographical information systems, it is perhaps a shame that more of that learning in this instance could not have been done from the practioners themselves. But this is just a gripe, and one which demonstrates that this reviewer was left wanting more rather than less. In this sense (and many others), Digital places is a success from which students of technology and students of geography should gain much.","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133554274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dispatches from the Venetian Front","authors":"Steven Flusty","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800204","url":null,"abstract":"Tallinn, Estonia, and Venice, Italy, while travelling to a conference. It is a grim scenario to contemplate. Ten geographers, shoehorned into a Lada or perhaps an even tinier Moskvitch, swallowed up as they traversed a landscape of shifting fissures demarcating the frontier where at least two worlds are still in the process of renegotiating how to collide. Nor was this the only unsettling time–space rupture marking the Fondazioni ENI Enrico Mattei’s International Conference on Postmodern Geographical Praxis. In my own case, despite having arrived in Venice for the first time in my life at the conference’s start, it was my third time in Venice that week. A few days prior to the conference, I had departed from one of a pair of Piazza San Marcos in Las Vegas, Nevada, where tourists hunched over their espressos beneath gothic arcades and enjoyed overpriced gondola rides along an indoor serpentine Grand Canal. Further, this Venice in Vegas is just up the block from Paris. Thus, given that my flight to the conference was routed through Charles de Gaulle Airport, I was twice in one week treated to a quick stopover amongst mansard roofs and the Eiffel Tower. And on the day of my departure to the conference, en route to Los Angeles International Airport, I stopped off at another Venice (this one on LA’s coast) and enjoyed my own espresso beneath a gothic arcade as throngs of tourists roller-skated to and fro beside a network of canals. Such spatialized conflations of the concrete and the image made flesh, of compressed space and telescoped time, and of mysterious disappearances were to prove no less pervasive for the conference’s larger political context. Belated","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122702413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics of reading: decolonizing children’s geographies","authors":"R. Phillips","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800201","url":null,"abstract":"This paper critically analyses interventions in politics of children’s geographical reading. Politics of reading encompass a twofold agenda: how and what people read. Academic critics have written more about the former; activists have expressed more interest in the latter. The role of activists is examined in the context of their interventions in children’s geographical reading in Britain in the 1970s, in particular with respect to the adventure genre. They acted through their capacities as gatekeepers (reviewers, review editors, librarians, teachers, parents and others); producers (including writers, publishers and booksellers); and translators (mediating between British readers and non-British writers). These individual and collective agents managed to suppress and modify some allegedly racist and/or colonialist texts and authors, and promoted postcolonial alternatives. They did so, however, by bracketing questions of interpretation and by mimicking rather than challenging power relations inherent in the contemporary scriptural economy. In each case, this marginalized the interests and imaginations of young readers, while also failing to anticipate the ways in which their actions and texts would be received and used by critics. The paper concludes by pointing to the need for more sophisticated engagements with politics of reading, which address simultaneously questions of what geographical texts people read and how they read them.","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115909313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Uganda’s Katikiro in England","authors":"D. Gilbert","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800214","url":null,"abstract":"In 1902, Sir Apolo Kagawa, chief minister (or Katikiro) and regent of the kingdom of Buganda, and his secretary, Ham Mukasa, arrived in Britain for the coronation of King Edward VII. Uganda’s Katikiro in England is an account of their visit, first published by Hutchinson of London in 1904 with Mukasa as the named author, which has now been reprinted by Manchester University Press, with an introduction by Simon Gikandi. When first published, Uganda’s Katikiro was regarded as a charming curiosity; in his contemporary introduction Sir H.H. Johnston (the British Special Commissioner for Uganda 1899–1902) remarked that while ‘we are constantly publishing the impressions made on our own pioneers . . . by the exotic subjects of the Empire’, ‘much less numerous are the recorded impressions which we make on the minds of those visitors to our shores’ (p. 42). As Gikandi points out, such curiosities now seem much more significant as rare surviving examples of cultural translation written by colonial subjects. The text is saturated with a sense of wonderment at the spectacle of Britain and the achievements of its people. On arrival in London: ‘We then went out to see the wonders of England . . . and first went out in our carriages to see the wonderful railways that go through the town underground. The English truly are marvellous people! . . . The roads there are very fine and wonderful; they have electric lamps, which shine and act as suns’ (p. 84). The reader is also informed of the ‘cleverness of the English’ (p. 71), and of Mukasa’s verdict ‘that the English are the kindest nation on earth’, particularly when compared with the perfidious Germans, who abuse him and the Katikiro on the return voyage to Africa (p. 197). For Gikandi, Mukasa’s narrative is a measured attempt by a colonized subject and his mentor to position themselves ‘within the cultural and political economy of Englishness, and to turn their colonisation into a source of moral, cultural and political authority’ (p. 5). He points to the mediating and ambiguous position of colonial elites, occupying a distinctive space in the culture of colonialism. In general Britain is not seen as an exotic other, but as the ultimate model for Bugandan civilization. In Gikandi’s reading of the text, Mukasa’s major claim is that the path to a modern Africa was to be found in overcoming the differences between Britain and Buganda. The re-publication of Uganda’s Katikiro in England is to be welcomed, and I hope that other examples of ‘reverse’ imperial travel writing will be published in the series. However, this cannot be seen as a simple exercise of recovering unheard or under-heard voices from the age of imperialism. Uganda’s Katikiro in England points to the complexity of imperial and colonial discourses, and particularly to the difficulties of ascribing authorship and interpreting positionality. In his introduction, Gikandi treats the text as the joint creation of Ham Mukasa and the Katikiro, and suggests","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132994129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The geography of tourism and recreation: environment, place and space","authors":"L. Desforges","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800217","url":null,"abstract":"ethnic distinctiveness is ‘naturalized’ into the material fabric of place through architecture, in this case through the development of chalet-style buildings. His account of the dismay of Swiss architects at the size and design of some of the chalets and, later, the dismay of some New Glarus inhabitants at a Swiss architect’s modernist ‘Hall of History’ insightfully highlights differing notions of ‘Swissness’ and of ‘authenticity’. While for many Little Swiss, authenticity lies in the reproduction of signifiers of traditional Swissness, for the Swiss architect at least, authenticity is about ‘trueness to materials and an honesty about age’. Richly detailed though this book is, it is not just about ‘Little Switzerland’. The story of New Glarus is woven into a bigger historical account of changing conceptions of American citizenship and of ethnicity, and Hoelscher frequently alludes to comparative (US) examples. Moreover, this is an important theoretical contribution to debates about traditionalization and retraditionalization, authenticity, heritage, tourism and the production of ethnic place. It deserves to be widely read.","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123168338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Island Stories: unravelling Britain. Theatres of memory, Volume II","authors":"T. Bressey","doi":"10.1177/096746080100800213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/096746080100800213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104830,"journal":{"name":"Ecumene (continues as Cultural Geographies)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133818650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}