Ruptured Landscapes

This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection is rupture . The book explores the ways in which societal, economic and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and understandings of landscapes. The text explores both how landscapes are contesting changes in society and changing society. The volume combines empirically fine-grained accounts of landscape rupture, from different parts of the world, with a sustained effort to explore, rethink and analytically extend the concept of rupture itself. The book therefore combines fresh empirical data with innovative theoretical approaches to open understanding of landscape as a dynamic, living entity subject to abrupt change and unpredictable disruptions. Through this dual reflection the volume is able to provide a powerful demonstration of the possibilities that are available for human action, social change and material landscape to combine.

Presents an innovative synthetic understanding of the dynamic relationship between conceptual, material and cognitive phenomena of rupture, brought together in the unifying trope of landscape Develops landscape theory in relation to a wide range of case studies, drawn from an equally wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, geography, history and literature studies Combines new ethnographic material, theoretical approaches and timely policy suggestions, based on case studies from around the world

Inhalt

1. Introduction-Ruptured Landscapes.- 2. Caribbean Ruptures-Making Sense of a Demilitarised Beach.- 3. Rupture and Redress-Heaney's Poetic Landscapes.- 4. The Landscape Concept as Rupture-Extinction and Perspective in a Norwegian Fjord.- 5. Perceiving the townscapes of Kohtla-Järve, Estonia.- 6. Interpreting Sites of Historical Rupture in Post-Soviet Urban Space-The Case of Tallinn, Estonia.- 7. Affect, Rupture and Heritage on Hashima Island, Japan.- 8. Between Landscapes-Migration as Rupture and its Expression in the Landscape.- 9. Ruptured Setomaa-Officialising Space and Cultural Passages.- 10. Ruptured Landscapes, Sacred Spaces and the Stretching of Landscape Capital.- 11. Understanding Ruptured Landscapes.