{"title":"Moon, mud, and cell phones: geographies of race and construction of difference through normalization","authors":"N. Doerr","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2017.1419707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2017.1419707","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How does the meaning of space emerge and get negotiated when individuals of diverse backgrounds interact with each other? Studies reporting that African Americans tend not to spend time in outdoor space attribute this finding to limited access to resources, cultural values, degree of assimilation to mainstream practices, discrimination in outdoor space, or a perception that outdoor recreational space is “white space”. Little research has addressed how such meanings relate to other meanings attached to outdoor space, let alone how this happens through interactions between people with different views on outdoor space. This article, based on interviews and participant observation of college students on an alternative break trip from the Northeastern U.S. to New Mexico in 2014, shows how students of various backgrounds experienced nature differently, how differences were articulated and explained, and how they subverted normalization processes that render not “being in tune with nature” as deficiency. Suggesting that geographies of race are fluid and influenced by individuals’ agency, this article calls for encouraging students to examine the ways their subject positions have shaped their experiences and challenge cultural bias in what is deemed universally desirable.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"35 1","pages":"315 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2017.1419707","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44111726","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":"Women’s everyday spirituality in Diamond Way Buddhism: an auto-photographic study","authors":"Kamila Klingorová, Zdeněk Vojtíšek","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2017.1375783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2017.1375783","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Western world is experiencing increasing popularity of new religious movements whose adherents tend to spirituality, a subjective, personal form of religion. These spiritual forms shape the spaces of everyday life, their meanings, perceptions, and experiences, which is starting to be reflected in new geographies of religion. In Czechia, one of the most rapidly growing new religious movements is Diamond Way Buddhism. This contribution focuses on how Diamond Way spirituality is lived and experienced in space. The paper explores this phenomenon using the method of auto-photography. We asked six women to photograph places important to them in their daily lives and interpret their spiritual meaning. This method allows exploration of women’s spirituality in the everyday spaces where it is perceived and experienced, such as kitchens, buses, or natural sites. The results show that women have a specific way of experiencing Buddhism in seemingly secular space which they describe through feminine characteristics of transcendence. Everyday spaces become spiritual through the subjects’ emotional and continual experiencing of Buddhism, while the officially sacred space of a Buddhist center is incorporated into everyday life activities of women. The division between sacred and secular spaces often described by scholars is therefore challenged.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"35 1","pages":"291 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2017.1375783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49443696","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":"Navigating ethnicity: segregation, placemaking, and difference","authors":"Emily Frazier","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2018.1514264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2018.1514264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"114 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2018.1514264","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49322536","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":"Liquid landscape: geography and settlement at the edge of early America","authors":"Thomas Hallock","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2018.1514260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2018.1514260","url":null,"abstract":"Liquid Landscape focuses on the “porous foundations” of early America. The book features a stunning close-up of mangrove roots on the cover and then explores how mangroves are used to answer the qu...","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"111 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2018.1514260","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43324060","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":"Explorations in place attachment","authors":"Samantha W. Earnest","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2018.1514272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2018.1514272","url":null,"abstract":"publicity) and facing a silent archive, Navakas foregrounds selected “imaginative reflections.” This chapter illustrates how a more comprehensive literature review would have served Navakas well, particularly when drawing from a fascinating and obscure set of sources (e.g. Joshua Reed Giddings and the children’s novelist Francis Robert Goulding). The fifth chapter, finally, closes with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s late writings from the St. Johns River. With an elegant circularity, Navakas comes back to the earlier theme of roots, through the saw palmetto. The ground-hugging Serenoa repens, Navakas reminds us, served as Stowe’s metaphor for living in the state, a foundational model that was “adapted to local material realities” and that offered an “alternative form of growth” (133). In contrast to her popular writings about housekeeping, interestingly, Stowe’s house in Mandarin possessed an unruly relationship with nature, leading Navakas to draw out a post-Civil War parable: that “incorporation must take a variety of forms” (153). A short Coda, finally, nudges the argument into the past century, using Zora Neale Hurston to connect the book’s central themes to our own time. Navakas’s archival project, framed against early America as both setting and historiography, is to desettle, to challenge our “concepts of land, boundaries and foundations” (156). In Florida the lines between land and water are in constant flux. A nod to global climate change and rising sea levels emphasizes the continued relevance of a state whose literary history offers a “vibrant language through which to imagine our relation to others and the natural world” (157). The book thus closes on an ethos, underscoring how the best literary landscapes can also serve as commentary and critique.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"112 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2018.1514272","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45302176","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":"Beyond the local: places, people, and brands in New England beer marketing","authors":"Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2018.1511104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2018.1511104","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite decades of domination by a few large companies, the American beer market has seen a dramatic resurgence of microbreweries. Contrary to conventional oligopolistic market theories, small firms have consistently gained market share from their entrenched competitors. Researchers have attributed this success to “neolocalism.” Through their marketing, microbreweries appeal to consumers’ desire for connections to real people and distinctive products from local places. However, no study has verified whether this pattern is most characteristic of microbreweries. With newer firms threatening their market share, larger firms might adopt neolocal claims, but little empirical attention has been directed at large brewers, and mid-sized, regional firms have been largely ignored by researchers. This paper uses content analysis of beer packaging to investigate the nature of the appeals made to consumers. I find that while microbreweries do make neolocal claims, regional breweries are more likely to associate their products with places on a local scale. Large breweries make few such claims, but instead rely on “reflexive branding”: marketing that refers back to the brand itself rather than borrowing existing symbolism from people or places. These findings partly support the neolocal perspective, but also challenge our expectations of which firms use neolocal appeals the most.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"110 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2018.1511104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45962520","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":"Erratum","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2018.1498673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2018.1498673","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"35 1","pages":"419 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2018.1498673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46559004","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":"In the shadow of the refinery: an American oil company town on the Caribbean island of Aruba","authors":"Dawn S. Bowen","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2018.1502398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2018.1502398","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT American industries created company towns across the United States, and in the late nineteenth century, their usage spread into Latin America and the Caribbean. Most company towns were designed for workers; the literature on company towns has tended to focus on these. However, some were specifically designed for expatriate managers and supervisors; these have received relatively little scholarly attention. This article focuses on Standard Oil’s Lago Colony on the island of Aruba. Established in 1929, the community offered a host of amenities including schools, a hospital, a store, a club, and a wide variety of sporting venues. This article examines the evolution of the town and explores the factors that contributed to its decline. It discusses life in the community, and specifically focuses on the lived experiences of children in making the company town their home.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"49 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2018.1502398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42596562","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":"“Don’t call me a Cajun!”: race and representation in Louisiana’s Acadiana region","authors":"Alexandra Giancarlo","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2018.1500088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2018.1500088","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In southwestern Louisiana, the public sphere is dominated by the image of the Cajuns, presented as a hardy, likable people who have overcome significant obstacles since their arrival as Acadians in the late eighteenth century. Across the cultural region designated “Acadiana,” which comprises 22 counties, nearly 30% of the population is black (or Creole, mixed-race peoples generally identifying as black). Contributions of non-whites to the region’s history are usually not incorporated into the public historical narrative, and the erasure of these groups’ influences on the state’s cultural “gumbo” has profound symbolic and material consequences. Black/Creole residents note that much of their culture – primarily music and foodways – has been repackaged as Cajun or subsumed under the Cajun label and that they are unable to take advantage of the benefits that Creole-oriented tourism could bring to a region in which half of the counties are designated “black high poverty parishes.” Using mixed methods, including interviews, archival analysis, and census data, this paper explores the social, political, and economic consequences of the domination of Cajuns in the south Louisiana memorial and representational landscape and argues that commemorative silences in what Alderman et al. have called the “memorial arena” perpetuate a hegemonic social order.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"23 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2018.1500088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41533428","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":"Changing mental maps of the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions","authors":"J. Holmén","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2017.1401405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2017.1401405","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Little empirical research has considered the way in which macro-regions are perceived outside academic and political circles. Such studies alone can determine what regional narratives mean for the wider public, and the extent to which they coincide with region-building images produced by elites. This article examines the mental maps of high school seniors in 10 cities in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions, focusing upon their perception and knowledge of other countries in those areas. Despite efforts at region building since the Cold War, the two regions remain divided on mental maps. Students have little knowledge of countries across the sea from their own, although such knowledge is generally greater among those from coastal (and particularly island) locations. A comparison with maps constructed by Gould in 1966 reveals that the perception of countries within one's own region among Italian and Swedish students has become more negative over the last 50 years.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"35 1","pages":"230 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2017.1401405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42945914","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}