Jeffrey Sasha Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 148669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Sasha Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey Sasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Geography, University of Vermont, 200 Old Mill, 94 University Place, Burlington, VT 05405-0114, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Military pollution and natural purity
Scales of Eden
Landscapes are often discursively constructed as wildernesses through an erasure of the histories of people in the landscape. Current representations of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as an Edenic wilderness are no different. What is unusual about conceptualizations of Bikini Atoll as a pristine wilderness is that it is the site of a recent history of colonial appropriation and massive landscape transformation through nuclear-weapons testin…
Representing Place
Bikini Atoll has been reshaped through time according to Western mythologies regarding “deserted” islands. Geographers have increasingly recognized that landscapes are shaped by the ways human agents conceptualize places. Ideals that shape places are not only based on interpretations of a given place, however, but are also formed by the semiotic linking of representations of similar landscapes. Conceptualizations of Bikini Atoll enabled the drast…
In motion, out of place
Representing Place
Bikini Atoll has been reshaped through time according to Western mythologies regarding “deserted” islands. Geographers have increasingly recognized that landscapes are shaped by the ways human agents conceptualize places. Ideals that shape places are not only based on interpretations of a given place, however, but are also formed by the semiotic linking of representations of similar landscapes. Conceptualizations of Bikini Atoll enabled the drast…
Scales of Eden
Landscapes are often discursively constructed as wildernesses through an erasure of the histories of people in the landscape. Current representations of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as an Edenic wilderness are no different. What is unusual about conceptualizations of Bikini Atoll as a pristine wilderness is that it is the site of a recent history of colonial appropriation and massive landscape transformation through nuclear-weapons testin…
Military pollution and natural purity
In motion, out of place
In motion, out of place
Representing Place
Bikini Atoll has been reshaped through time according to Western mythologies regarding “deserted” islands. Geographers have increasingly recognized that landscapes are shaped by the ways human agents conceptualize places. Ideals that shape places are not only based on interpretations of a given place, however, but are also formed by the semiotic linking of representations of similar landscapes. Conceptualizations of Bikini Atoll enabled the drast…
Military pollution and natural purity
Scales of Eden
Landscapes are often discursively constructed as wildernesses through an erasure of the histories of people in the landscape. Current representations of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as an Edenic wilderness are no different. What is unusual about conceptualizations of Bikini Atoll as a pristine wilderness is that it is the site of a recent history of colonial appropriation and massive landscape transformation through nuclear-weapons testin…
Geography (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Atoll (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)