Lived Topographies And Their Mediational Forces

by Backhaus, Gary; Murungi, John; Kautzer, Chad; Kavanagh, Kathryn Hopkins; Mendieta, Eduardo; E. Paddock, Troy R.; Sawicki, Marianne; Shanahan, Derek; Skocz, Dennis E.; Woessner, Martin; Zukas, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780739105764
• ISBN10: 0739105760
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars who give a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place.

Table of Contents

Figures	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
Gary Backhaus
Section I: Narrative or Semiotic Mediation	1	(92)
1 Exploration in Dead Space: The East End of London, England	3	(28)
Derek Shanahan
2 "The Whole Land is Sacred"-Story and the Navajo Sense of Place	31	(18)
Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh
3 Terra Incognita/Terra Nullius: Modem Imperialism, Maps, and Deception	49	(28)
Alex Zukas
4 Land Makes the Man: Topography and National Character in German Schoolbooks	77	(16)
Troy R.E. Paddock
Section II: Technological Mediation	93	(68)
5 Totalitarian Topographies: Ground Zero of Embargo Zones	95	(24)
Eduardo Mendieta
6 Between Battlefield and Battlescape: Info-Age Technology and the Topography of War	119	(26)
Dennis E. Skocz
7 Daniel Libeskind: From the End of Architecture to the Space of Memory	145	(16)
Martin Woessner
Section III: Mediation by Surveillance	161	(42)
8 Utilitarian Topographies of the Public: State Surveillance and the Case for Public Anonymity	163	(20)
Chad Kautzer
9 Categorial Imperatives for Fugitive Slaves: Some Topographical Axioms of Deontology	183	(20)
Marianne Sawicki
Selected Bibliography	203	(14)
Index	217	(6)
About the Contributors	223