Kenneth R Olwig
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 159117 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth R Olwig |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth R |
| APELLIDO | Olwig |
| FIRMA | OLWIG K R |
| AFILIACIONES | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 745 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Landscape
Landscape was a central concept when geography began as a modern scholarly discipline during the nineteenth century, but within twentieth‐century mainstream Anglophone geography it was peripheralized by the narrowing of the field to a science of space. This weakened the unity of geography as a discipline concerned with the historically developing relationship between society, nature and place, as expressed in the phenomena of landscape, which was…
David and Max Lowenthal – and Marsh
Taking its point of departure in the prominent, and controversial, legal, political and social engagement of David Lowenthal’s lawyer father, Max Lowenthal, this article first explores the evident influence of Max Lowenthal on his son’s distinctive, socially engaged approach to scholarship and writing as an academic, and as a public intellectual. It will then consider how Max Lowenthal’s example facilitated David Lowenthal’s subsequent lifelong i…
Introducing David Lowenthal’s archipelagic and transatlantic landscapes
This editorial presents the articles contained in a special issue on David Lowenthal. It begins with a biographical sketch by Hugh Clout. Trevor Barnes continues with an article on Lowenthal’s concern with geography and its history. Luca Muscarà provides further biographical background with an article on the influence of Lowenthal’s transatlantic relationship with the French geographer Jean Gottmann beginning during WWII. Kenneth R. Olwig argues …
Landscape justice, place and quality of life in ‘archipelagic’ worlds
This special issue is concerned with landscape justice understood as people’s emplaced right to landscape as a common good of importance to their quality of life in a world of landscapes conceptualized as being archipelagic in character – even when they occur within continents. Archipelagic refers to landscapes that have an insular character, which gives each a special historical and cultural identity, but that are also are linked to other landsc…
Landscape, justice and the quality of life in emblematically embodied nation/states – the case of Denmark
The modern notion of the landscape of the nation-state, we argue, emerged in part through an 'emblematic' fusion of the nation, imagined as a bio-organic body-politic, and the state conceptualised in geo-metric terms as the Euclidean, cartographic framework within which that body operates. The eliding of the geo-metric with the bio-organic has influenced national discourse, law and practice by defining the legal and social right to belong within …
The Meanings Of Landscape
Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today. This book …
Justice, Power and the Political Landscape
The Practice of Landscape ‘Conventions’ and the Just Landscape
This chapter examines the practice of landscape ‘conventions’ as a means to understanding the perception and meaning of landscape in relation to law and justice. It is concerned with the concept of convention in relation to the concept of landscape in general and the European Landscape Convention in particular. The chapter also examines the meaning of landscape in ‘conventional’ practice and analyses this understanding of landscape to the meaning…
Meanings of Landscape
Recovering the substantive nature of landscape
In memoriam
David Lowenthal was well-known to many as an authority in their particular field, but they may have had little idea that he was just as well-known in many other fields. He was thus acknowledged, fo
The Meanings of Landscape
In search of the Nordic landscape
The peculiar status of pan-Nordic identity, vis-a-vis other 'pan' identities in Europe, was reflected in the role which the notion of landscape came to play in Norden. The search for the roots of Nordic identity necessarily led back to historical eras prior to the formation of the well defined states that subsequently divided Norden. The landscape districts of Norden thus literally grew out of the intellectual soil of history, and had their intel…
Special issue on pastoral landscapes caught between abandonment, rewilding and agro-environmental management. Is there an alternative future
England's 'Lake District' and the 'North Atlantic Archipelago
According to the European Landscape Convention landscape means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors. The meaning of landscape depends on how people perceive and, in turn, interpret a landscape, which, in a circular way, effects again how people perceive the landscape. Perception thereby involves both the sensing of landscape and the constituting of the landsca…
Transcendent Space, Reactionary-Modernism and the “Diabolic” Sublime
To show how the reactionary and modern were linked in the genesis of geography as a modern spatial science, this article traces the ideas and practice of two of the twentieth-century founders of spatial science, Walter Christaller and Edgar Kant, back to the origins of modernity in the Renaissance, when the “duplicitous” and “diabolic” cartographic space of the scenic landscape was constructed. Through this reexamination of the history of geograp…
Geese, Elves, and the Duplicitous, “Diabolical” Landscaped Space of Reactionary Modernism
Reactionary modernism is identified with Nazism, but modernism itself often has a reactionary dimension, which arguably can be traced partially back to the Renaissance construction of the modern map and, from it, perspectival, scenic landscape. The perspectival space of scenic landscape characteristically creates a dialectical hybrid consisting of, on the one hand, an invisible, lawful, geometric spatial framework expressing a modern scientific r…
Mainstreaming landscape through the European Landscape Convention
"Mainstreaming landscape through the European Landscape Convention." Landscape Research, 41(8), pp. 981–982
What is landscape
Virtual enclosure, ecosystem services, landscape’s character and the ‘rewilding’ of the commons
It is paradoxical that, while there is a generally increasing recognition of the scientific and cultural importance of conserving ‘semi-natural’ pastoral environments, and the negative effects of their widespread abandonment and overgrowth, British ‘rewilding’ activists and environmental managers are effectively advocating policies that will have a similar negative effect on the character of the semi-natural pastoral commons of places like Englan…
Introduction to a special issue
In any discussion of landscape characterisation the elephant in the room is the question of just what is landscape? Another way of putting this question is to simply ask: ‘How would you characterise landscape?’ What this implies is that there is a certain circularity in landscape characterisation because, through the very act of characterising landscape, one is also defining what one means by landscape. The European Landscape Convention’s definit…
Anthropologists Are Talking - About the Anthropocene
Love it or hate it, the Anthropocene is emerging as an inescapable word for (and of) the current moment. Popularized by Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen, Anthropocene names an age in which human in
Landscape
European Wood-Pastures in Transition
"European Wood-Pastures in Transition: A Socio-Ecological Approach." Landscape Research, 40(8), pp. 1016–1017
Globalism and the Enclosure of the Landscape Commons
Anthropologists Are Talking - About the Anthropocene
Love it or hate it, the Anthropocene is emerging as an inescapable word for (and of) the current moment. Popularized by Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen, Anthropocene names an age in which human in
Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape
The full complexity of the ideas of landscape and nature has been largely lost due to a modern tendency to appropriate the meaning of landscape to a concept of nature as scenery. The resulting conflation of meaning has not only led to questionable forms of determinism, it has obscured the substantive meaning of landscape, and related concepts, in European and North American culture. This study of the evolving meaning of a key geographical term ad…
The practice of landscape ‘Conventions’ and the just landscape
The role of conventional practice in generating the idea of a just landscape, it is argued, became manifest in the process by which the European Landscape Convention was generated, and in the way it is being implemented. The concept of convention thus not only provides a way of understanding the relationship between ideas of justice and the constitution of landscape, it also provides a key to navigating the complexities of interpreting the Europe…
Representation and alienation in the political land-scape
The question of representation in the definition of landscape is arguably at the nexus of important theoretical issues in the social sciences and humanities, and is in evident need of clarification. A key but largely overlooked concept in the debate on landscape and representation is the concept of alienation and, by extension, the concepts of commodification and reification. This paper will first examine the relation between landscape representa…
Life Between Buildings
Has 'Geography' Always Been Modern
The geographical subdiscipline of chorography, as described by Ptolemy and as interpreted in the Renaissance, played an important philosophical and practical role in the development of landscape as a form of spatial representation. This applies both to representation in the form of pictures, as in landscape painting, and to representation through the medium of perspectival theater scenery. These pictorial and scenic forms represented a reconfigur…
The Landscape of ‘Customary’ Law versus that of ‘Natural’ Law
Anglo-American common law is rooted in time-out-of-mind, place-specific, custom. It coexists uneasily, however, with the ‘Natural’ law ideal of the Enlightenment, which is inspired by the timeless and placeless mathematical and geometrical principles that govern natural science, and which are characteristic of Newton's absolute space. Each notion of law, it is argued, creates its own conception of landscape, and this conception, in turn, shapes t…
Justice, power and the political landscape
The essays in this special issue are all concerned with the interrelationships between power and justice as they engage differing understandings of landscape. There may seem to be an ocean of diffe
Virtual enclosure, ecosystem services, landscape’s character and the ‘rewilding’ of the commons
It is paradoxical that, while there is a generally increasing recognition of the scientific and cultural importance of conserving ‘semi-natural’ pastoral environments, and the negative effects of their widespread abandonment and overgrowth, British ‘rewilding’ activists and environmental managers are effectively advocating policies that will have a similar negative effect on the character of the semi-natural pastoral commons of places like Englan…
Landscape
The concept of landscape is enjoying a period of scholarly development in contemporary geography that has spread to, and enriched, disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology, and sociology to history and philosophy. This development is occurring despite the fact the concept of landscape was once effectively dismissed, by an influential geographical theorist, as being of "little or no value as a technical or scientific term" in geography. …
Nature's Ideological Landscape
Heidegger, latour and the reification of things
Thing” has undergone reification, and it has done so together with its linguistic “conjoined twin” – “landscape”. Whereas thing once was the name for meetings where people assembled to treat common things that matter, things, in the modern sense, have become physical objects (things as matter). Likewise, landscape's meaning has been reified from being a polity constituted by common thing meetings treating substantive things that matter, to becomi…
All That is Landscape is Melted into Air
Aerography' is an imagined scholarly discipline that is intended to raise questions concerning 'unthought elemental and metaphysical assumptions in recent human geographies'. How, for example, would unexamined contemporary disciplinary assumptions change if geography were less ostensibly geocentric and more focused on the space of the aerosphere? This is an aerography of the role of aether and theater in the transformation of landscape's meaning …
Natives and Aliens in the National Landscape
Discourses concerning the threat of alien species to national landscapes have a curious tendency to bleed into discourses concerning the threat of alien races and cultures to the native people and culture of these same nations. An explanation for these parallels, it is argued, lies in a common point of departure in a particular post-Renaissance concept of landscape, space and nature, which ultimately derives from what is here termed 'the cartogra…
The duplicity of space
The modern definition of geography as the science of ‘space’ derives in important measure, it will be argued, from the Germanic concept of Raum. The implications of the importation of this concept into English are masked, however, by its translation as ‘space’, an English word with very different connotations from the German Raum. Whereas the English space is conceptually distinct from place, Raum has a double meaning, combining elements of both …
Special issue on pastoral landscapes caught between abandonment, rewilding and agro-environmental management. Is there an alternative future
Introduction to a special issue
In any discussion of landscape characterisation the elephant in the room is the question of just what is landscape? Another way of putting this question is to simply ask: ‘How would you characterise landscape?’ What this implies is that there is a certain circularity in landscape characterisation because, through the very act of characterising landscape, one is also defining what one means by landscape. The European Landscape Convention’s definit…
Are Islanders Insular? A Personal View
I use my personal experience as an islander doing fieldwork among islanders in the West Indies to explore the meaning of "insularity." I then expand on that personal experience by drawing on literary sources, particularly Homer's the Odyssey and Herman Melville's Moby Dick, both of which express an island worldview. The island worldview is contrasted and compared with the continental worldview on the basis of differing modes of navigation and car…
Liminality, Seasonality and Landscape
To the student of landscape, as well as to the landscape planner, designer and manager, it is important to distinguish between differing modalities in the conceptualization of landscape and seasonality. The logic of the absolute geometric space of the map and central point perspective prospect, and the chronometric time of the calendar, is qualitatively different from the liminality of place and seasonal holidays. Here it is the content that defi…
The Earth is Not a Globe
‘Globalism’ can be defined as a mode of thought deriving from the practice of thinking globally, both literally and figuratively. Globalism not only informs major trends within governance and economics, it also informs environmental issues, not least those related to global warming. It will be argued, using the example of the production of energy and power, that there may well be a built-in contradiction between globalism and the interests of lan…
Norden and the “substantive landscape”
This commentary takes its point of departure in the debate provoked by the landscape theory that Denis Cosgrove presented in his seminal book, Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (1984), in which he defined landscape in terms of scenic, spatial forms of representation. By unpacking the evolution of the concept of landscape the author proposed an alternative interpretation to Cosgrove's, emphasizing differing conceptions of lawfulness, in whic…
Introduction
One's perspective on natural versus cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one's geographical position. By this I do not just mean a position on the globe, but a
Underdevelopment and the Development of “Natural” Park Ideology
Geese, Elves, and the Duplicitous, “Diabolical” Landscaped Space of Reactionary Modernism
Reactionary modernism is identified with Nazism, but modernism itself often has a reactionary dimension, which arguably can be traced partially back to the Renaissance construction of the modern map and, from it, perspectival, scenic landscape. The perspectival space of scenic landscape characteristically creates a dialectical hybrid consisting of, on the one hand, an invisible, lawful, geometric spatial framework expressing a modern scientific r…
England's 'Lake District' and the 'North Atlantic Archipelago
According to the European Landscape Convention landscape means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors. The meaning of landscape depends on how people perceive and, in turn, interpret a landscape, which, in a circular way, effects again how people perceive the landscape. Perception thereby involves both the sensing of landscape and the constituting of the landsca…
Underdevelopment and the Development of "Natural" Park Ideology
Underdevelopment and the Development of “Natural” Park Ideology
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Landscape Research Group on literature and landscape
Nature's Ideological Landscape
Nature's Ideological Landscape
Life Between Buildings
Landscape and Culture
The Aesthetics of Landscape
Places on the Margin
"Natur"syn
Metaforer kan vare bade oplysende og „formorkende“. Udtryk som „perspektiver pa naturen" eller „synspunkter pa naturen" virker ganske harmlose. „Det er jo bare talemader," siger vi. Alligevel former sadanne udtryk vores tankning, subtilt og ubemarket. Metaforer er oplysende, nar de letter vores tankning. Nar vi ikke bare tanker med dem, men over dem. Nar de hjalper os til at tanke over tingene pa en ny made, til at tanke det, der forhen var utank…
Environmental History and the Construction of Nature and Landscape
It is my thesis that the discipline we now know as environmental history owes a great deal of its impetus to the emergence at the beginning of the 19th century of a socially engaged and environmentally committed interdisciplinary 'proto-discipline'. A material conception of nature was of key importance to this environmental history, and thereby to the historically conscious conservation movement which it set in motion. This concept of nature as t…
Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape
The full complexity of the ideas of landscape and nature has been largely lost due to a modern tendency to appropriate the meaning of landscape to a concept of nature as scenery. The resulting conflation of meaning has not only led to questionable forms of determinism, it has obscured the substantive meaning of landscape, and related concepts, in European and North American culture. This study of the evolving meaning of a key geographical term ad…
The duplicity of space
The modern definition of geography as the science of ‘space’ derives in important measure, it will be argued, from the Germanic concept of Raum. The implications of the importation of this concept into English are masked, however, by its translation as ‘space’, an English word with very different connotations from the German Raum. Whereas the English space is conceptually distinct from place, Raum has a double meaning, combining elements of both …
Natives and Aliens in the National Landscape
Discourses concerning the threat of alien species to national landscapes have a curious tendency to bleed into discourses concerning the threat of alien races and cultures to the native people and culture of these same nations. An explanation for these parallels, it is argued, lies in a common point of departure in a particular post-Renaissance concept of landscape, space and nature, which ultimately derives from what is here termed 'the cartogra…
Landscape
The concept of landscape is enjoying a period of scholarly development in contemporary geography that has spread to, and enriched, disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology, and sociology to history and philosophy. This development is occurring despite the fact the concept of landscape was once effectively dismissed, by an influential geographical theorist, as being of "little or no value as a technical or scientific term" in geography. …
Introduction
"Introduction: The Lowenthal Papers." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 93(4), p. 851 Notes 1. No introduction to the work of David Lowenthal would be complete without a pun or play on words
“This is not a Landscape”
The Landscape of ‘Customary’ Law versus that of ‘Natural’ Law
Anglo-American common law is rooted in time-out-of-mind, place-specific, custom. It coexists uneasily, however, with the ‘Natural’ law ideal of the Enlightenment, which is inspired by the timeless and placeless mathematical and geometrical principles that govern natural science, and which are characteristic of Newton's absolute space. Each notion of law, it is argued, creates its own conception of landscape, and this conception, in turn, shapes t…
Liminality, Seasonality and Landscape
To the student of landscape, as well as to the landscape planner, designer and manager, it is important to distinguish between differing modalities in the conceptualization of landscape and seasonality. The logic of the absolute geometric space of the map and central point perspective prospect, and the chronometric time of the calendar, is qualitatively different from the liminality of place and seasonal holidays. Here it is the content that defi…
Introduction
One's perspective on natural versus cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one's geographical position. By this I do not just mean a position on the globe, but a
Representation and alienation in the political land-scape
The question of representation in the definition of landscape is arguably at the nexus of important theoretical issues in the social sciences and humanities, and is in evident need of clarification. A key but largely overlooked concept in the debate on landscape and representation is the concept of alienation and, by extension, the concepts of commodification and reification. This paper will first examine the relation between landscape representa…
Place contra space in a morally just landscape
Michel de Certeau's work provides a provocative means of distinguishing the concepts of space and place in relation to that of the just landscape, while at the same time challenging the common tendency to identify landscape with the rural rather than the urban. de Certeau's landscape analysis takes its point of departure in the contrast between the map-like view of Manhattan from the World Trade Center and the place-creating practices of the pede…
Multiple interfaces of the European Landscape Convention
The multiple interfaces of the European Landscape Convention were the topic of a roundtable panel discussion held at the meeting of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape in September 2006. The roundtable was convened by Kenneth R. Olwig, who together with four other speakers presented the main topics for discussion. Their presentations are given here as a series of short articles. Initially a brief historical back…
Norden and the “substantive landscape”
This commentary takes its point of departure in the debate provoked by the landscape theory that Denis Cosgrove presented in his seminal book, Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (1984), in which he defined landscape in terms of scenic, spatial forms of representation. By unpacking the evolution of the concept of landscape the author proposed an alternative interpretation to Cosgrove's, emphasizing differing conceptions of lawfulness, in whic…
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