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Exploring Cultural Landscapes: Understanding Everyday Texts in Geography

This project delves into the concept of texts in geography, extending beyond traditional written material to encompass images, symbols, and various forms of communication systems. By analyzing paintings, maps, landscapes, films, advertisements, street signs, and more, we aim to develop a critical geographical imagination and understand the meanings that places and landscapes evoke.

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Exploring Cultural Landscapes: Understanding Everyday Texts in Geography

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  1. Doing Geography: Understanding, Engaging, and Acting in the Everyday Qualitative Methods: Images, Symbols and Text.

  2. “In its most traditional form, a text is… written material … the French philosopher Roland Barthes (1972) expanded the notion… to include many other communication systems such as fashion, etiquette and urban design. Today, [we] ‘read’ images such as paintings, maps and landscapes, along with social, cultural, economic and political institutions as texts” (Aitkin, in Flowerdew & Martin, 1997:198). films, adverts, street signs, ‘graffiti’, etc...  new way of looking, seeing, understanding  new way to develop the critical geographical imagination

  3. Many ‘texts’ in the urban everyday

  4. Texts are everywhere(Cosgrove, in Gregory & Welford, 1989: 127) • “the kind of evidence that [we] now use for interpreting the symbolism of cultural landscapes is much broader than it has been in the past. Material evidence in the field and cartographic, oral, archival and other documentary sources all remain valuable. But often we find the evidence of cultural products themselves – paintings, poems, novels, folk tales, music, film and song can provide as firm a handle on the meanings that places and landscapes possess, express and evoke as do more conventional ‘factual’ sources”.

  5. How places are taken and made by different groups • Who holds power to control places, and people? • Who challenges and resists this power, why, what effects does it have on our everyday geographies? • Who watches, monitors, enforces? • Do we belong? • How do we act?

  6. http://www.spatialmanifesto.com/teaching-projects/culture-place-spacehttp://www.spatialmanifesto.com/teaching-projects/culture-place-space

  7. Who are we? Where are we? What is the influence of geographical context on us? • How can we read these questions in signs, symbols, and texts? • Can we use them to generate a new, everyday, insight in the extraordinary relations between people and place? • http://www.spatialmanifesto.com/methodology-projects/qualitative-methods-podcasts

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