Contested Landscapes Movement, Exile and Place

by Bender, Barbara; Winer, Margot

• ISBN13: 9781859734674
• ISBN10: 1859734677
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

Landscapes are not just backdrops to human action; people make them and are made by them. How people understand and engage with their material world depends upon particularities of time and place. These understandings are dynamic, variable, contradictory and open-ended. Landscapes are thus always evolving and are often volatile and contested. They are also always on the move - people may or may not be rooted, but they have 'legs'. From prehistoric times onwards people have travelled, but the process of people-on-the-move - as tourists, or on global business, as migrant workers or political or economic refugees - has vastly accelerated. How and why do people who share the same landscape have different and often violently opposed ways of understanding its significance? How do people-on-the-move make sense of the unfamiliar? How do they create a sense of place? How do they rework the memories of places left behind? There is nothing easeful about the landscapes discussed in this book, which are often harsh-edged and troubled both socially and politically. The contributors tackle contested notions of landscape to explain the key role it plays in creating identity and shaping human behaviour. This landmark study offers an important contribution towards an understanding of the complexity of landscape.

Author Biography

Edited by Barbara Bender, Professor in Heritage Anthropology, University College London and Margot Winer, Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of California and Co-ordinator, SMC Study Abroad Program, University of Cape Town.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
List of Contributors	xiii
List of Illustrations	xv
Introduction	1	(20)
Barbara Bender
Part I Contested Landscapes
The Shadow of the Sacred Rock: Contrasting Discourses of Place under the Acropolis	21	(16)
Roxane Caftanzoglou
Matter and Memory in the Landscapes of Conflict: The Western Front 1914--1999	37	(18)
Nicholas J. Saunders
Contested Landscapes in Inner Mongolia: Walls and Cairns	55	(14)
Caroline Humphrey
Negotiating the River: Cultural Tributaries in Far North Queensland	69	(18)
Veronica Strang
Crannogs: Places of Resistance in the Contested Landscapes of Early Modern Ireland	87	(16)
Aidan O'Sullivan
Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia	103	(18)
Eleanor Conlin Casella
Cultural Keepers, Cultural Brokers: The Landscape of Women and Children -- A Case Study of the Town Dahab in South Sinai	121	(12)
Heba Aziz
Whose New Forest? Making Place on the Urban/Rural Fringe	133	(16)
Andrew Garner
The Political Economy of Landscape: Conflict and Value in a Prehistoric Landscape in the Republic of Ireland -- Ways of Telling	149	(16)
Maggie Ronayne
Bringing Contemporary Baggage to Neolithic Landscapes	165	(32)
Gabriel Cooney
Comments on Part I: Intersecting Landscapes	181	(8)
Julian Thomas
Responses to Julian Thomas's Comments
Veronica Strang Replies	189	(1)
Eleanor Conlin Casella Replies	190	(1)
Roxane Caftazoglou Replies	191	(1)
Maggie Ronayne Replies	192	(5)
Part II Landscapes of Movement and Exile
Landscape and Commerce: Creating Contexts for the Exercise of Power	197	(14)
Penelope Harvey
Pilgrimage and Politics in the Desert of Rajasthan	211	(14)
Marzia Balzani
Landscapes of Separation: Reflections on the Symbolism of By-pass Roads in Palestine	225	(16)
Tom Selwyn
Rites of Passage: Travel and the Materiality of Vision at the Cape of Good Hope	241	(16)
Jessica Dubow
Landscapes, Fear and Land Loss on the Nineteenth-Century South African Colonial Frontier	257	(16)
Margot Winer
Places of Longing and Belonging: Memories of the Group Area Proclamation of a South African Fishing Village	273	(16)
Anna Bohlin
Homes and Exiles: Owambo Women's Literature	289	(14)
Margie Orford
Heike Becker
Egypt: Constructed Exile of the Imagination	303	(16)
Beverley Butler
Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination	319	(14)
Andrew Dawson
Mark Johnson
Hunting Down Home: Reflections on Homeland and the Search for Identity in the Scottish Diaspora	333	(30)
Paul Basu
Comments on Part II: Far From Home	349	(10)
Nick Shepherd
Responses to Nick Shepherd's Comments	359	(4)
Anna Bohlin Replies	359	(1)
Beverley Butler Replies	359	(1)
Jessica Dubow Replies	360	(1)
Marzia Balzani Replies	361	(1)
Mark Johnson Replies	362	(1)
Index	363