{"title":"Resisting Venice: individual and collective housing practices to stay put in the tourist city","authors":"M. Basso, F. Fava, Laura Fregolent","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2215399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2215399","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Whereas Venice (Italy) has been extensively analysed through the lens of tourism, little has been written so far regarding the resistance practices emerging due to increasing tourism-led gentrification. This paper presents two examples of housing initiatives taking place in the historic city and its neighbouring lagoon islands. The first, promoted by a collective actor (Assemblea Sociale per la Casa), concerns the selection, occupation, and self-restoration of public dwellings located in the historic city; the second, an individual choice made by some citizens, concerns moving to the small lagoon islands as not simply a form of displacement, but as a resistance mechanism against the progressive expansion of the tourism industry into the lagoon margins. Drawing on Annunziata and Rivas-Alonso’s work, the aim of this contribution is to provide an interpretation of such initiatives as examples of resistance practices in gentrifying contexts, and to enrich the literature on resisting gentrification by stressing their informal, invisible, and ambiguous nature.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"95 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48825893","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":"“A lot of people there were undocumented, or at least looked like me”: illegality, visibility and vulnerability among immigrant young adults in Florida","authors":"Heide Castañeda, Melanie Escue, Elizabeth Aranda","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2214028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2214028","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Contemporary migration studies in cultural geography emphasize place-based approaches, recognizing the relational and contextual nature of belonging, especially as these are nested within material and symbolic structures of racial inequality. This article highlights the role of precarious legal status, focusing on undocumented immigrant young adults who grew up in the United States, to examine subjective experiences of place-making and belonging in situations of heightened visibility, deportability and vulnerability. We analyze 56 interviews with undocumented immigrant young adults, predominantly from Latin America, collected in Central Florida. Findings focus on themes linked to shared experiences of vulnerability due to illegality and visibility: (1) belonging in co-ethnic/co-legal neighborhoods, (2) ethnic and racial tensions, (3) neighborhood (in)security and safety, and (4) mutual assistantance and support among neighbors. In addition to poverty, poor infrastructure, and lack of safety, many neighborhoods in which undocumented youth grow up are characterized by racial and ethnic divisions. Our findings contribute an analysis of how undocumented migrants experience place as intersecting with broader patterns of race and ethnicity, and point to the importance of “co-legal status”. This extension of the concept of co-ethnicity references shared experience of illegality as it relates to place-making for legally precarious individuals.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"118 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47160955","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":"State of disaster: a historical geography of Louisiana’s land loss crisis","authors":"Larry Kleitches","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2183794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2183794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"91 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47240611","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}
F. Cappellano, A. Rizzo, T. Makkonen, Ilaria Giada Anversa, Gianmarco Cantafio
{"title":"Exploring senses of place and belonging in the Finnish, Italian and U.S. craft beer industry: a multiple case study","authors":"F. Cappellano, A. Rizzo, T. Makkonen, Ilaria Giada Anversa, Gianmarco Cantafio","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2187469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2187469","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores how microbreweries are engaged within the local communities they serve. It investigates whether the relationship between microbreweries and their home localities is driven by microbreweries’ senses of place and belonging or by market-driven rationales instrumentally promoted through territorial branding strategies. Drawing from earlier literature the paper proposes a typology of microbreweries’ senses of place and belonging based on their place embeddedness and community engagement that functions as the analytical framework for this study. The feasibility of the framework is tested drawing on qualitative data collected via in-depth interviews with representatives of microbreweries in North American and European regions. The data shows that the framework allows for distinguishing between those microbreweries that are highly place embedded and community engaged from those that are not.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"64 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46123101","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":"“Infrasecular” geographies and the multifaceted significance of a European shrine cathedral","authors":"Kara E. Dempsey","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2194841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2194841","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores how the significance of the pilgrimage shrine church, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is layered and multifaceted for its local community. This cathedral is more than a sacred and pilgrimage landscape. Utilizing “infrasecular” geographies as an analytical lens, this article provides greater insight into the multifaceted and layered significance(s) of the Cathedral for the local community. It focuses more specifically on how the Cathedral can be temporarily transformed by vernacular performances of everyday community life and social interactions to produce banal and, as examined in this article, Galician nationalist (regional) space. Recognizing the continuous processes of making and unmaking of “infrasecular” geographies shifts the focus away from a binary understanding of religious versus secular space to acknowledge the dynamic and overlapping meanings of sacred landscapes within society.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"1 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49151480","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":"How do we get the community gardening?: grassroots perspectives from urban gardeners in Cape Town, South Africa","authors":"T. Kanosvamhira","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2187509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2187509","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Urban agriculture offers numerous environmental, economic, and social benefits. However, it is often hampered by limited engagement in cities of the global South. This article offers bottom-up perspectives on how to increase the uptake of urban agriculture activities. It draws on urban gardeners’ perspectives in the low-income neighbourhood of Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. The mixed-methods approach combined a questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews with urban gardeners, and interviews with civil society actors and a state official. The results indicate that climate and soil conditions are major deterrents to urban agriculture. However, community dialogues about urban agriculture’s social and environmental benefits could play a crucial role in increasing uptake and in facilitating conversations about urban agriculture and food more generally. The paper offers recommendations for future interventions seeking to promote urban agriculture and support actors in low-income neighbourhoods in Cape Town and other African cities.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"47 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42079887","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":"Canyon Mountain Cloud: absence and longing in American Parks","authors":"Rex J. Rowley","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2183795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2183795","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"93 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42960716","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":"Mapping-Ofrenda: mapping as mourning in the context of migration","authors":"José Alavez, S. Caquard","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2023.2187490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2187490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper proposes the concept of mapping-ofrenda, which envisions mapping as a form of mourning and remembering while living in the context of migration. Inspired by the traditional Mexican ofrenda, the mapping-ofrenda aims to collect, curate, and represent posthumous memories. It can be produced collaboratively or individually, built with physical or digital maps, shared with other people, or kept private, and be dedicated to a single deceased or to an entire community. Through the process of co-designing two online ofrenda-maps with two Latina-American women living in Montreal (Canada) we identified some of the potential of mapping-ofrenda, including its capacity to stimulate our memories and remember stories on the verge of disappearing, to ground them to places, and to share them with people that might live far away. Mapping-ofrenda can also be a way of making visible the global geography of migration through highly intimate memories and acknowledging both the very personal and the highly universal need to remember and grieve. Finally, the main value of mapping-ofrenda in the context of migration, may be its capacity to reactivate and strengthen existing links and connections between people that are still alive but that may live far away.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"40 1","pages":"21 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42591001","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":"Site-seeing aesthetics: California sojourns in five installations","authors":"Emily Holloway","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2022.2117936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2022.2117936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"39 1","pages":"422 - 423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48500620","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":"Sportscapes in virtual reality","authors":"Neil Conner","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2022.2122127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2022.2122127","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores sportscapes in virtual reality (VR), and expands upon John Bale’s theoretical discussions on sporting landscapes and the futurescapes of sports. Through two case studies, I examine unique aspects of VR sportscapes. The first case study investigates participatory sportscapes: so-named to denote how the experiences within these virtual environments require active user participation. The second case study discusses sportscapes specifically designed for watching sports in virtual reality. Given the growing popularity of VR – for both personal and commercial uses – it is critical for geographers to examine the socio-spatial and cultural implications of these virtual spaces. By surveying this emerging world, where the barriers between technology and the body begin to blur, this paper reveals how VR is reconfiguring social experiences and the ways they intersect with(in) material landscapes.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"39 1","pages":"399 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45565377","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}