A Fiona D Mackenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 191776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Fiona D Mackenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Fiona D |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MACKENZIE A F D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership
Working the Wind: Land-Owning Community Trusts and the Decolonisation of Nature
In February 2008, the North Harris Trust finally gained planning permission for a three-turbine wind farm at Monan, a site just north of the quarry of Ceann an Ora, Ardhasaig, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. The North Harris Trust had taken over the ownership and management of the land of that estate in 2003 and, in part, had pinned its hopes of reversing decades of economic, social and cultural decline on the generation of renewable energy from …
Undoing Nature: The John Muir Trust's “Journey for the Wild”, the UK, Summer 2006
I take as a point of departure for a discussion of the idea of nature the John Muir Trust's much publicised Journey for the Wild which took place in the UK during the summer of 2006. My objective is to explore how, at the same time that the “wild” was performed as a political category through the Journey, replicating the binary nature/society, prevalent norms of nature that depend on that binary, including, ironically, those of John Muir himself,…
Claims to Place: The public art of Sue Jane Taylor
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada E-mail: [email protected]
Against the tide: Placing visual art in the Highlands and Islands, Scotland
Within a political context where Gaelic arts are recognised as integral to the configuration of a new Scotland, this paper focuses on the art and artistic practice of a community arts centre in North Uist, Outer Hebrides, and the art of internationally acclaimed Scots artist, Will Maclean, who has worked with this centre, with initiatives to commemorate the land struggle on the Isle of Lewis, and with Gaelic arts. Drawing, at the conceptual level…
Reimagining sustainable cultures: Constitutions, land and art
Globalisation is about the interconnection of peoples and places in accelerated ways, but it is also about resistance and adaptation in the face of change. Discussions of sustainability now incorporate both dynamic understandings of culture and the recognition that place matters because the practices that are in need of sustaining, as well as those that pose threats, happen in particular communities and in specific geographic contexts. Culture is…
Place and the art of belonging
This paper explores the connections among place, identity and visual art with reference to the Harris Tapestry, created to mark the beginning of a new Millennium on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. I focus on the material practices through which the Tapestry was created and the historical and cultural metaphors evoked through its embroidered motifs with a view to considering what it means to belong on the island. As a site where peop…
Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya
This paper situates the relationship between biodiversity and land tenure in the complex interrelationships between the local and the global. Through a case study of Murang’a District, Kenya, it explores how power is exercised through struggles to define rights to land in highly complex situations of legal plurality and how these struggles in turn interrelate with issues of land management, including biodiversity. Gender, cross-cut by class, is a…
Moving Mountains: Community and Resistance in the Isle of Harris, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Canada
Drawing on poststructuralist political ecology, the narratives of two struggles about siting a superquarry are examined to elucidate the complex articulations of community, nature, resistance and identity in play in public debates. Focusing on the discursive formulations of the quarry in the expert language, as well as in the arguments of both local proponents and opponents of the quarries, shows the importance of ontological categories in “envir…
Re-Claiming Place: The Millennium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland
In this paper I explore the metaphorical and material significance of the Millennium Forest at Borgie in the context of an emerging movement for the collective purchase of private estates in the crofting areas of Scotland. My argument focuses, first, on the means whereby the Forest, as visual art, is constituted as a site through which what Edward Said calls a 'culture of resistance' is mobilised and through which an inclusive sense of belonging …
Shady Practices. Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
Betterment and the Gendered Politics of Maize Production, Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya, 1880-1952
A. Fiona D. MacKenzie, Betterment and the Gendered Politics of Maize Production, Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya, 1880-1952, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 1 (1999), pp. 64-97
Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952
‘The Cheviot, the Stag … and the White, White Rock?’: Community, Identity, and Environmental Threat on the Isle of Harris
In this paper I examine the process through which different claims to ‘development’ and ‘sustainability’ were made during a recent public inquiry into an application for a coastal superquarry at Lingerbay, Isle of Harris. On the one hand, a modernist discourse of sustainable development was claimed by a corporation which attempted to frame the debate in terms of jobs versus environment, exploiting rhetorically a difference between islander and in…
Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952
Place and the art of belonging
This paper explores the connections among place, identity and visual art with reference to the Harris Tapestry, created to mark the beginning of a new Millennium on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. I focus on the material practices through which the Tapestry was created and the historical and cultural metaphors evoked through its embroidered motifs with a view to considering what it means to belong on the island. As a site where peop…
Re-Claiming Place: The Millennium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland
In this paper I explore the metaphorical and material significance of the Millennium Forest at Borgie in the context of an emerging movement for the collective purchase of private estates in the crofting areas of Scotland. My argument focuses, first, on the means whereby the Forest, as visual art, is constituted as a site through which what Edward Said calls a 'culture of resistance' is mobilised and through which an inclusive sense of belonging …
Moving Mountains: Community and Resistance in the Isle of Harris, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Canada
Drawing on poststructuralist political ecology, the narratives of two struggles about siting a superquarry are examined to elucidate the complex articulations of community, nature, resistance and identity in play in public debates. Focusing on the discursive formulations of the quarry in the expert language, as well as in the arguments of both local proponents and opponents of the quarries, shows the importance of ontological categories in “envir…
Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership
Claims to Place: The public art of Sue Jane Taylor
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada E-mail: [email protected]
Against the tide: Placing visual art in the Highlands and Islands, Scotland
Within a political context where Gaelic arts are recognised as integral to the configuration of a new Scotland, this paper focuses on the art and artistic practice of a community arts centre in North Uist, Outer Hebrides, and the art of internationally acclaimed Scots artist, Will Maclean, who has worked with this centre, with initiatives to commemorate the land struggle on the Isle of Lewis, and with Gaelic arts. Drawing, at the conceptual level…
Reimagining sustainable cultures: Constitutions, land and art
Globalisation is about the interconnection of peoples and places in accelerated ways, but it is also about resistance and adaptation in the face of change. Discussions of sustainability now incorporate both dynamic understandings of culture and the recognition that place matters because the practices that are in need of sustaining, as well as those that pose threats, happen in particular communities and in specific geographic contexts. Culture is…
Working the Wind: Land-Owning Community Trusts and the Decolonisation of Nature
In February 2008, the North Harris Trust finally gained planning permission for a three-turbine wind farm at Monan, a site just north of the quarry of Ceann an Ora, Ardhasaig, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. The North Harris Trust had taken over the ownership and management of the land of that estate in 2003 and, in part, had pinned its hopes of reversing decades of economic, social and cultural decline on the generation of renewable energy from …
Shady Practices. Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
‘The Cheviot, the Stag … and the White, White Rock?’: Community, Identity, and Environmental Threat on the Isle of Harris
In this paper I examine the process through which different claims to ‘development’ and ‘sustainability’ were made during a recent public inquiry into an application for a coastal superquarry at Lingerbay, Isle of Harris. On the one hand, a modernist discourse of sustainable development was claimed by a corporation which attempted to frame the debate in terms of jobs versus environment, exploiting rhetorically a difference between islander and in…
Betterment and the Gendered Politics of Maize Production, Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya, 1880-1952
A. Fiona D. MacKenzie, Betterment and the Gendered Politics of Maize Production, Murang'a District, Central Province, Kenya, 1880-1952, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 33, No. 1 (1999), pp. 64-97
Land, Ecology and Resistance in Kenya, 1880-1952
Shady Practices. Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
Re-Claiming Place: The Millennium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland
In this paper I explore the metaphorical and material significance of the Millennium Forest at Borgie in the context of an emerging movement for the collective purchase of private estates in the crofting areas of Scotland. My argument focuses, first, on the means whereby the Forest, as visual art, is constituted as a site through which what Edward Said calls a 'culture of resistance' is mobilised and through which an inclusive sense of belonging …
Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya
This paper situates the relationship between biodiversity and land tenure in the complex interrelationships between the local and the global. Through a case study of Murang’a District, Kenya, it explores how power is exercised through struggles to define rights to land in highly complex situations of legal plurality and how these struggles in turn interrelate with issues of land management, including biodiversity. Gender, cross-cut by class, is a…
Moving Mountains: Community and Resistance in the Isle of Harris, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Canada
Drawing on poststructuralist political ecology, the narratives of two struggles about siting a superquarry are examined to elucidate the complex articulations of community, nature, resistance and identity in play in public debates. Focusing on the discursive formulations of the quarry in the expert language, as well as in the arguments of both local proponents and opponents of the quarries, shows the importance of ontological categories in “envir…
Reimagining sustainable cultures: Constitutions, land and art
Globalisation is about the interconnection of peoples and places in accelerated ways, but it is also about resistance and adaptation in the face of change. Discussions of sustainability now incorporate both dynamic understandings of culture and the recognition that place matters because the practices that are in need of sustaining, as well as those that pose threats, happen in particular communities and in specific geographic contexts. Culture is…
Place and the art of belonging
This paper explores the connections among place, identity and visual art with reference to the Harris Tapestry, created to mark the beginning of a new Millennium on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. I focus on the material practices through which the Tapestry was created and the historical and cultural metaphors evoked through its embroidered motifs with a view to considering what it means to belong on the island. As a site where peop…
Claims to Place: The public art of Sue Jane Taylor
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada E-mail: [email protected]
Against the tide: Placing visual art in the Highlands and Islands, Scotland
Within a political context where Gaelic arts are recognised as integral to the configuration of a new Scotland, this paper focuses on the art and artistic practice of a community arts centre in North Uist, Outer Hebrides, and the art of internationally acclaimed Scots artist, Will Maclean, who has worked with this centre, with initiatives to commemorate the land struggle on the Isle of Lewis, and with Gaelic arts. Drawing, at the conceptual level…
Undoing Nature: The John Muir Trust's “Journey for the Wild”, the UK, Summer 2006
I take as a point of departure for a discussion of the idea of nature the John Muir Trust's much publicised Journey for the Wild which took place in the UK during the summer of 2006. My objective is to explore how, at the same time that the “wild” was performed as a political category through the Journey, replicating the binary nature/society, prevalent norms of nature that depend on that binary, including, ironically, those of John Muir himself,…
Working the Wind: Land-Owning Community Trusts and the Decolonisation of Nature
In February 2008, the North Harris Trust finally gained planning permission for a three-turbine wind farm at Monan, a site just north of the quarry of Ceann an Ora, Ardhasaig, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. The North Harris Trust had taken over the ownership and management of the land of that estate in 2003 and, in part, had pinned its hopes of reversing decades of economic, social and cultural decline on the generation of renewable energy from …
Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership
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