{"title":"Imagining the Atacama Desert: a five-hundred-year journey of discovery","authors":"Dean Sinclair","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1824356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1824356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":"338 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1824356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42047479","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":"“When theory and reality collide: tales of theory and the field”","authors":"Steven M. Schnell","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1823605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1823605","url":null,"abstract":"When we read published research results, the results often seem a little too pat, and slot too conveniently into the theoretical framework set up in the opening sections of the article. What we don...","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":"259 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1823605","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45525045","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":"Rethinking the living museum concept “from below”","authors":"H. Muzaini","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1800320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1800320","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the living museum from the points of view of museum workers, those responsible for breathing life into what is essentially an ethnological heritage site. Drawing specifically on the Sarawak Cultural Village in East Malaysia, it first considers the living museum as the formal product of intentional framing, shaping, and choreographing to achieve tourism and nation-building mandates. At the same time, however, performers may construct the living museum differently “from below”, with implications for what they do on site, some unaligned with how the site is fashioned “from above”. In doing so, the paper reveals the representational “work” and cultural politics of the living museum where both official and unofficial practices interweave, each activating the “living” component of the museum in their own ways. It also restores agency to tourism employees rather than treating them as passive actors realizing the goals of management, or as mere objects of the tourists’ gaze.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"81 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1800320","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47979196","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":"The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States","authors":"K. Patzke","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1761578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1761578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"25 10","pages":"336 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1761578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41276195","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":"Protestant evangelical pilgrimages: hagiography, supernatural influence, and spiritual mapping","authors":"Robbie B. H. Goh","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1770497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1770497","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Christian pilgrimage sites can be separated into three broad categories: Biblical sites (e.g. Jerusalem, Ephesus, Patmos, and other locations where significant events happen in the Biblical narratives); older Catholic and Anglican sites whose importance has been established over a long history of many centuries (e.g. the Vatican, Lourdes, Canterbury); and lastly, newer sites associated with more recently established Protestant denominations and groups such as Methodism, Lutheranism, Pentecostalism, and others. With a shorter history and lacking either the Biblical significance or the political or national dimension of Catholicism and Anglicanism, other Protestant sites can be considered “popular” or “excentric” sites. These construct their significance through strategies relying on evangelical and Pentecostal discourses and meanings, particularly the construction of great spiritual figures who wield supernatural and invisible influence over history and society. These constructions propose a Spiritual Mapping that is superimposed onto historical and political events, creating an alternative significance for touristic purposes. This paper examines two sites for Protestant evangelical pilgrimages, centered on the figures of John Wesley and Rees Howells, that demonstrate this touristic construction of protestant hagiography, supernatural influence, and Spiritual Mapping.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"38 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1770497","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41325071","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":"The messiness of co-produced research with gatekeepers of resettled refugee communities","authors":"Cerian Gibbes, Emily Skop","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1759981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1759981","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Co-production of knowledge is identified by researchers and policy-makers as central to the advancement of scientific endeavors to address societal challenges, and as a process of empowerment which improves linkages between theory, knowledge, and action. We reflect on a nascent project we are developing that takes seriously the idea of co-producing knowledge and questions what the “co-” really means in the research development process, particularly with regard to research goals, sites, methods, and funding? Our interdisciplinary project investigates socio-ecological resilience and recovery in urban farms led by refugees, and integrates co-production from the inception of the project through a research collaboration with researchers, practitioners, and refugees involved in the International Rescue Committee’s New Roots Program. Through an exploration of the messiness that becomes manifest as the co-production process unfolds, especially the on-the-ground power dynamics that come with forming relationships with resettlement agency gatekeepers, this paper questions the often-idealized notion that co-production, and emergent methodologies, yields win-win situations. Rather, we posit that co-production incurs tentative alliances and significant trade-offs. So, while we embrace the theory behind co-production, we conclude that the key role of gatekeepers means that theory and reality collide as power hierarchies emerge and the process unfolds.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":"278 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1759981","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46769633","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":"Positionality and participatory ethics in the Global South: critical reflections on and lessons learned from fieldwork failure","authors":"Jordan P. Brasher","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1760020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1760020","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay is a critical reflection on positionality, participatory ethics and fieldwork failure in the Global South. It argues that the collision of our academic theories with socio-political realities in the field cannot be separated from and often includes who we are and what we think we can do as researchers. It explores how my understandings of my positionality as a white, male doctoral student from the United States were challenged during my fieldwork in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. I explore the difficulties of negotiating my positionality amongst different groups of people with competing political interests and ideologies at the annual Festa Confederada – a festival that celebrates US southern heritage and culture. I critically reflect on how my failure to negotiate the various axes of my identity with the local chapter of the Movimento Negro (Black Movement) and with the Confederate Festival’s organizers revealed political-ideological differences within the Movimento Negro and resulted in my being barred from conducting research at the annual festival. In an effort to be as transparent and self-critical as possible, this essay also explores valuable and sometimes embarrassing lessons learned that other researchers from the Global North should heed before entering the field.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":"296 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1760020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41801737","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":"Splintering urbanism and nationalism in the “world-class city”: reflections on field work on stand-up comedy production in Mumbai","authors":"Aju James","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1759999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1759999","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the contradictions I encountered during fieldwork in the city of Mumbai, India, studying stand-up comedy as a site of struggle over globalization and national identity. In this essay I will focus on my engagement with the theoretical framework of “splintering urbanism” (Graham and Marvin 2001)—which I adopted to situate the emergence of stand-up comedy in the context of the production of ‘global’, ‘world-class’ urban space in Mumbai. During my fieldwork, I observed that the processes of splintering urbanism in Mumbai had produced conditions that encouraged the rise of nationalism, which runs contrary to the assumption that splintering urbanism creates a “global urban archipelago”. This paper argues that producing Mumbai as a world-class city is equated with national advancement and cultural transformation. Specifically, Mumbai becomes India’s global city, and the mobilizing of resources and labor for the global city based economic growth is promoted through nationalist rhetoric. Mumbai’s stand-up comedy scene is a good site to study these transformations because it has been a site of controversy over national identity since the 2010’s and because its emergence is almost entirely dependent on the splintering of Mumbai’s infrastructure services.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":"311 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1759999","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49018104","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 men of color in privately-owned public spaces: unexpected findings","authors":"Cara Kronen, M. Makris, Te-Sheng Huang","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1760000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1760000","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Much has been written about privately-owned public space. Most of the literature focuses on whether these spaces are used, the design of the spaces, and how the spaces can be improved. Researchers have also focused on methods that keep “undesirables”, such as the homeless, from using these spaces. Literature on privately-owned public space (POPS) argues that these spaces are exclusive and undemocratic. However, our research employed an empirical design that centered the voices and experiences of young men of color. What we found was unexpected given that we had taken for granted that these spaces would feel exclusionary. We offer an expansion upon the conclusions of other researchers and argue that the story of corporate public space, race, exclusion, and research into them is more complex than existing literature reveals.","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":"262 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1760000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49016461","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 Note from the Editor","authors":"Steven M. Schnell","doi":"10.1080/08873631.2020.1769821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2020.1769821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45137,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cultural Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":"115 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08873631.2020.1769821","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44577101","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}