{"title":"Gift of art/gift of place: boundary work for Indigenous coexistence","authors":"Soren C. Larsen","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1989251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1989251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Collaborative art is an important kind of “boundary work” in decolonizing relationships to self, others, and land in today’s settler societies, or the multinational states that formed as a result of European settler colonialism. This article tells the story of a children’s book co-produced by the Cheslatta Carrier Nation in British Columbia and two undergraduate students at the University of Missouri (MU) along with their faculty mentor and his son at the 2018 Cheslatta Camp Out. The Camp Out is a time when the Cheslatta Nation returns to Cheslatta Lake, the homeland from which they were forcibly evacuated in 1952. The process of doing art for the children’s book together in place at the Camp Out facilitated the trust and rapport essential for the collaborative creative work, and ultimately helped the participants co-discover the storyline for the book. The co-produced artworks for the children’s book (watercolors, photographs, illustrations, stories) became gifts that trace the circuits and complicities of entangled relations. As a gift, artwork brings disparate communities of practice fully into reckoning with place, understood in the Indigenous sense as the relationship of things to each other through land. This is the gift of art, the gift of place.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"39 1","pages":"117 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45645302","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":"Co-producing maps as boundary objects: Bridging Labrador Inuit knowledge and oceanographic research","authors":"Breanna Bishop, E. Oliver, Claudio Aporta","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1998992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1998992","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Climate change is affecting the marine environment in Nunatsiavut, leading to changing sea ice thickness and seasonal timing, and increasing water temperatures. This impacts the lives of Labrador Inuit, whose culture, economy, and history are deeply tied to marine spaces. Recently, research partnerships involving Inuit communities in Nunatsiavut have increased, creating space for Labrador Inuit in large scale marine research agendas. While including Labrador Inuit knowledge is critical for making research relevant to communities, there are challenges to engaging it alongside oceanographic scientific knowledge, as both stem from unique ontologies, at times having different values, scales, and languages of understanding. Boundary work offers a lens to analyze how boundary objects can foster connections between Labrador Inuit knowledge and oceanographic research. This research offers a conceptual exploration of this subject through analysing the co-production of maps representing Labrador Inuit knowledge of ocean features which, as data, were then applied in oceanographic research problems. Framing these maps as boundary objects demonstrates their utility in mobilizing Inuit knowledge into scientific approaches, acknowledging limitations with respect to knowledge that cannot be spatially rendered.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"39 1","pages":"55 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46860035","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":"Young People, Big Voices, Bangkok Noi: a participatory street photography project for connecting youth to a traditional community in a changing Bangkok","authors":"M. Ferguson, Dale Konstanz","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1998993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1998993","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper describes a participatory project aimed at understanding how young people identify with where they live, a village called Ban Bu in a sub-district of Bangkok called Bangkok Noi. The village is famous for its traditional artisans and its atmosphere of a bygone era in Thailand. Today, the character of the community is dying out with its ageing population, and with the external forces of economic development and modernization. In coordination with Siriraj Hospital’s Corporate Social Responsibility Unit, the researchers organized a street photography project to engage teenagers from the local high school. The aim of the project was to see if street photography would inspire the students to think about their community differently through the stories depicted in their pictures of the neighborhood. The results show that the street photography project was very popular among the participants, and did inspire new perspectives, and raise appreciation for the community. However, it is unclear to what extent the project instilled a lasting sense of civic pride and engagement.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"39 1","pages":"272 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43053156","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":"Images of the urban religious landscape: Gen Z seek out the sacred in the city","authors":"Maxim G. M. Samson, James G. Leichty","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1968623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1968623","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In spite of growing attention among geographers to the diversity of religious spaces, young adults’ perceptions of such sites and their relevance in contemporary society remain relatively under-researched. In response, this article focuses on Generation Z undergraduates’ conceptualizations of religious space and engagement with broader questions pertaining to the sacralization of urban sites. The students identified a wide range of urban sites beyond places of worship as religious—including murals, storefronts, sidewalk decorations and tattoos – and in the process revealed the pervasiveness of religion and religious spaces, thereby uncovering some new possible directions for geographical inquiry. Moreover, they shared their attitudes regarding contested issues like gentrification and the commodification of religious symbols, and in relation the place of religion in contemporary society. By gaining such a glimpse into the worldviews of Generation Z, we may develop a better understanding of the ways that they perceive religious space and its relevance to urban life.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"39 1","pages":"225 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45800330","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 geographic framework for assessing neolocalism: the case of Texas cider production","authors":"J. Buratti, R. Hagelman","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1951004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1951004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to propose a new conceptual framework intended to offer scholars a tool for assessing the geographic qualities among the myriad expressions of neolocalism reflected by craft food producers. Our objectives were to determine the extent to which Texas craft cider producers employ neolocal traits in the identity and marketing of their products and place; to examine how and under what conditions does the role of neolocalism and the traits employed in Texas craft cider production vary by location, reflecting local sites and situations; and to discover whether geographic, relational, or value-based traits hold greater influence when employing neolocalism in Texas craft cider. Incorporating geographic, relational, and values of proximity along with identified neolocal traits, we created a visual representation of neolocal engagement, the neolocal product model. The model visually demonstrates how Texas craft cider producers’ ability to conscientiously create a locally embedded product imbued with neolocal traits is affected by how the producers situate themselves within a local food network, reflect local resources and values, and present their cidery within a chosen landscape.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"399 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2021.1951004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48320230","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":"Fermented landscapes","authors":"A. Higgins","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1969199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1969199","url":null,"abstract":"Following theoretical trajectories in geography and Science and Technology Studies that explore more-than-human relationships, I Fermented Landscapes: Lively Processes of Socio-environmental Transformation i edited by Colleen C. Myles uses the process of fermentation as a tool to investigate social, cultural, and political changes of different environments. By investigating the blending of cultivation and (socio-)cultural practices, various chapters help to illuminate fermentation's role in the symbiosis of human-environment relations. Organized into three broad parts, the introductory chapters conceptualize the role of fermentation in landscape change, the second section empirically details landscapes of fermentation, and the last section ruminates about the link between \"fermentation\" and \"landscapes\". [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Journal of Cultural Geography is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"437 - 439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42732049","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":"Water, Life, and Profit: Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger","authors":"Jean Eichhorst","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1969200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1969200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"436 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59908066","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}
A. Matamanda, I. Chirisa, Tinashe N. Kanonhuhwa, Dixon D. Mhlanga
{"title":"Politics and the legacy of street renaming in postcolonial Zimbabwe","authors":"A. Matamanda, I. Chirisa, Tinashe N. Kanonhuhwa, Dixon D. Mhlanga","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1927348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1927348","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The announcement by the government of Zimbabwe on 21 November 2019 that a good number of streets were to be renamed motivated this study. We argue that the postcolonial urban landscape in Zimbabwe is increasingly becoming a space of contestation regarding renaming streets. Street renaming in Zimbabwe emphasizes the struggle against coloniality and a search for resilience and purpose among those in power. The leaders seek to use the renaming process to show their contribution to the national struggle and patriotism by honouring some fallen heroes and heroines. However, in a country characterised by hyperinflation, corruption, and fuel and cash shortages, such an emphasis has been deemed (by many ordinary citizens) a cover-up for failure to address glaring challenges. The narrative contributes to the literature on place names as ‘spaces of contestation,’ as street names are used to embody a particular narrative related to the postcolonial government’s history. The renaming provides another ‘soft layer’ of the urban landscape, which is about heritage and less of history.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"336 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2021.1927348","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43370120","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":"Governing (through) anticipation, architecture, affect","authors":"Mikael Linnell","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1927321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1927321","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, I analyze the use of architecture and affect as means for ensuring a prepared and resilient population. I do this by exploring an empirical case of public simulation centers, which are an emerging type of educational facility with the purpose of training the public for future emergencies using advanced simulations. Accordingly, existing anticipatory techniques are being redeployed and applied to a new target group, the public, which calls for renewed engagement with the use of space, physical design, and affect as means for involving and fostering the public in societal preparedness. Drawing on literature on anticipatory governance, I focus on two questions, elaborating first how public simulation centers produce and enable security affects and, second, exploring the means, material and immaterial, by which these centers attract and involve citizens in security practices.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"354 - 377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2021.1927321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48829874","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":"Refraining on necropolitics: lyrical geographies of labor music","authors":"M. Rhodes, Chris W. Post","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2021.1927322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2021.1927322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT All music takes place somewhere. While geographic analyses of lyrics have focused on the geographies of artists and/or particular places and regions of their inspiration, we see a developing opportunity to discuss music as a fundamental component of social resistance. While scholars have discussed social resistance in music as practiced by artists, such a focus has been researched less in regard to entire social movements on a certain topic. We will fill that gap here by discussing the role that labor plays in popular music lyrics. Using a qualitative analysis of historic and contemporary songs, this paper posits that necropolitics – analyzing the source of power over an individual’s positionality and physical well-being – stands at the core of such song meanings. Therefore, as a result, much labor music incites Marxian understandings of capitalism, poverty, and degraded social reproduction. We suggest this assessment offers a deeper insight into such lyrics and also helps explain the anthemic popularity of many labor-focused songs that have appealed to the working class over many decades.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"378 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2021.1927322","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49085664","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}