Hanna
Biographic Data
| ID | 21143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanna |
| SIGNATURE | HANNA |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mary Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0838-1907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Creating Memories in Community
This special issue expands the field of community geography by foregrounding its vital intersection with memory work. Rooted in participatory partnerships, the six contributions explore how marginalized communities engage in place-based memory to reclaim, narrate, and spatialize their histories. Through projects ranging from Black history trails in Georgia and Virginia to Indigenous counter-mapping in Canada and survivor-led commemorations in Ire…
Do No Harm: How Fredericksburg's Civil Rights Trail Emerged Through Collaboration and Care
Reworking how the public understands a place’s past requires changing how that history is written and how it is practiced in public spaces. Freedom, A Work in Progress, the new civil rights trail in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is an attempt to center Black history in the ways both residents and visitors remember the past in a small Southern city. Throughout the twentieth century, heritage-themed tours, historical markers, and Civil War battle reena…
Black cartography as memory work
In 1873, John Washington completed his memoir, Memorys of the Past, in which he described his growth from an enslaved child to a Black man who emancipated himself in the spring of 1862. The memoir includes his meticulously drawn map of Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, identifying places important to his memories of enslavement and, most notably, the location where he crossed the Rappahannock River to freedom. Washington’s map is an exampl…
Journeys back along the roads to Mandalay, Imphal and Kohima: Recent contributions to the history of the Burma theatre in the Second World War
This article explores recent literature on the often-overlooked Burma theatre of the Second World War. The brutal contest in Burma, which took place in the most hostile of climates, was never a priority for any of the belligerents in the global war. Despite this, a re-examination of the men who fought in the jungles, hills, and plains of Burma from myriad nations and cultures – and who bled and died in their thousands – adds a number of dimension…
A more perfect union? The place of Black lives in presidential plantation sites
While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Highland work to recover the lives of people enslaved by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, their institutional missions emphasize the importance of these four men within American history. The resulting impediments to honoring Black lives within these spaces can be best understood using the analytical framework of reputational politics and by recognizing the roles visitors have in reproduci…
“Give them more and more for their dollar”
In the United States, visitors to heritage sites have been steadily declining, and in the wake of this phenomenon, these sites have often turned to edutainment as a way to diversify methods to earn diminishing revenue in an increasingly competitive heritage tourism market. The term edutainment is a portmanteau (education/entertainment) signifying the tendency of controlling stakeholders of cultural institutions to infuse elements of entertainment…
The Local Role of Southern Tourism Plantations in Defining a Larger Southern Regional Identity as Reflected in Tourists' Surveys
To what extent does local variation exist in the expressed interests of planta- tion museum tourists? While the study of plantation museums is of growing importance in the tourism literature, these existing studies have tended to focus on a single site or a single region. This study examines data collected at several southern plantations across multiple smaller areas in the U.S. Southeast. Specifically, we are curious about tourists’ interests in…
Following the story: Narrative mapping as a mobile method for tracking and interrogating spatial narratives
Museums and heritage tourism sites are highly curated places of memory work whose function is the assembling and ordering of space and narrative to contour visitors’ experiences of the past. Variations in such experiences within and between sites, however, necessitates a method that: (1) captures how guides, visitors, and exhibits interact within spaces when representing and performing history and (2) allows researchers to document those variatio…
Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory
This article, structured as a prompt-and-response work, is authored by members of a research team investigating how slavery is absent and present at tourism plantation museums in the U.S. South. The prompt for the discussion grew out of E. Arnold Modlin’s concern that, even at museums where narratives and landscapes center on enslaved people, the presence of the master and enslaver within the same space ensures that once-enslaved people are alway…
Representation and Presentation
Representation, including the presentation of spatial patterns in maps and diagrams, is a contested concept at the core of geography, cartography, and GIScience. Since the 1950s, scholars and practitioners engaging with maps as both products and practices have situated representation in the science of communication and geovisualization on the one hand or within critical social theory on the other. More recently, some research attempts to operatio…
Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies
Reading the commemorative landscape with a qualitative GIS
Music plays an important role in the geographic construction of identity. Increasingly, researchers note that music is both a fundamental part of how places are made meaningful in everyday life and, simultaneously, a mechanism through which places are made profitable through the packaging, marketing, and selling of culture in the global tourism industry. Yet, because music is an aural and emotional practice/experience, research into the relations…
Memory, slavery, and plantation museums: The River Road Project
Heritage tourism plays an increasingly important yet controversial role in interpreting the emotionally and politically charged memories and legacies of African enslavement. Antebellum plantation museums in the southeastern USA remain relatively underanalyzed by researchers, despite their tradition of ignoring and minimizing the contributions and struggles of the slave community. Yet, this neglect is being challenged somewhat by a growing number …
Placing the enslaved at Oak Alley Plantation: Narratives, spatial contexts, and the limits of surrogation
As iconic landscapes of the American South and significant heritage tourism destinations, Southern plantation museums have traditionally erased slavery and the enslaved from their narratives of the antebellum past. Recently, some plantation museums, such as Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana, are commemorating the enslaved within their landscapes and narratives, although often in limited and insufficient ways. In this paper, I draw on theories of …
Reading the signs: Using a qualitative Geographic Information System to examine the commemoration of slavery and emancipation on historical markers in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Until recently, narratives of slavery and emancipation have been absent from, or at best marginalized within, landscapes designed to commemorate colonial, antebellum, and Civil War history in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and most other places within the United States. As many scholars, journalists, and activists argue, the erasure of slavery, Jim Crow era segregation, and other race-based discrimination from national understandings of United States'…
Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962
Cartographic Memories of Slavery and Freedom: Examining John Washington's Map and Mapping of Fredericksburg, Virginia
In 1873, former slave John Washington (1838–1918) wrote his memoir, Memorys of the Past. This account includes a remarkable map that locates Washington's experiences as a slave, his acts of resistance, and the route of his escape from bondage in 1862. Washington's map is both a work of memory and a rare example of a subaltern cartographic practice. The act of mapping his experiences in Fredericksburg, Virginia, challenges the long-dominant memory…
Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument
Seth C. Bruggeman Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008, xi+260 pp., US$24.95 paperback, (ISBN 978-0-8203-3178-2), US$59.95 hardback, (ISBN: 978-0-8203-3177-5) Historian Seth Bruggeman's He
A Slavery Museum: Race, Memory, and Landscape in Fredericksburg, Virginia
In spring 2001, former governor Douglas Wilder announced that he might locate the United States National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Despite some recent changes, Fredericksburg's heritage tourism landscape, as it is built and performed, reproduces a white American nationalism extolling the virtues of individualism, valor, and free enterprise. The mere potential of adding the Museum to Fredericksburg's landscape engendered intense …
Representation as work in 'America's most historic city
This paper examines how the practices of heritage tourism reproduce identities in and of Fredericksburg, Virginia. In particular, we focus on the everyday practices of tourism workers who are essential in the representation and reproduction of this heritage space. In so doing, we want to move away from research in geography that theorizes representation and embodiment as distinct realms of experience and inquiry. Instead, we argue that representa…
Representations and identities in tourism map spaces
Tourism maps remain underexamined in geography. Despite recent trends in critical cartography and tourism studies that redefine the relationship between space and representation, these geographic texts are rarely explored for their intertextual relationships with the spaces they claim to represent. In this article, we argue that tourism maps and other representations play an important role in the production of tourism spaces. We begin with an exa…
Methodological frameworks for the geography of organizations
The Liberal-Conservative Ideology of U.S. Senators: A New Measure
Responding to widespread concerns about how scholars typically measure legislators' ideologies, we propose, implement, and test the efficacy of a novel measurement approach. We employ formal content analysis of the news coverage of U.S. Senators' initial campaigns for office to create an ideology scale for members of the 101st Congress. We also offer systematic tests of reliability and of convergent and discriminant construct validity for this sc…
Is It Roslyn or Is It Cicely? Representation and the Ambiguity of Place
Representations or images of place are widely recognized as contributing to how people understand the places in which they live, work, and study. Increasingly they are being seen to contribute to the production of places as well. This paper addresses the relationships between representation and place as social processes by examining the blurring of Cicely, the Alaskan town in the television show Northern Exposure, and Roslyn, the town in Washingt…
Finding a place in the world-economy
Representations and identities in tourism map spaces
Tourism maps remain underexamined in geography. Despite recent trends in critical cartography and tourism studies that redefine the relationship between space and representation, these geographic texts are rarely explored for their intertextual relationships with the spaces they claim to represent. In this article, we argue that tourism maps and other representations play an important role in the production of tourism spaces. We begin with an exa…
The Liberal-Conservative Ideology of U.S. Senators: A New Measure
Responding to widespread concerns about how scholars typically measure legislators' ideologies, we propose, implement, and test the efficacy of a novel measurement approach. We employ formal content analysis of the news coverage of U.S. Senators' initial campaigns for office to create an ideology scale for members of the 101st Congress. We also offer systematic tests of reliability and of convergent and discriminant construct validity for this sc…
Representation as work in 'America's most historic city
This paper examines how the practices of heritage tourism reproduce identities in and of Fredericksburg, Virginia. In particular, we focus on the everyday practices of tourism workers who are essential in the representation and reproduction of this heritage space. In so doing, we want to move away from research in geography that theorizes representation and embodiment as distinct realms of experience and inquiry. Instead, we argue that representa…
Methodological frameworks for the geography of organizations
Placing the enslaved at Oak Alley Plantation: Narratives, spatial contexts, and the limits of surrogation
As iconic landscapes of the American South and significant heritage tourism destinations, Southern plantation museums have traditionally erased slavery and the enslaved from their narratives of the antebellum past. Recently, some plantation museums, such as Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana, are commemorating the enslaved within their landscapes and narratives, although often in limited and insufficient ways. In this paper, I draw on theories of …
Memory, slavery, and plantation museums: The River Road Project
Heritage tourism plays an increasingly important yet controversial role in interpreting the emotionally and politically charged memories and legacies of African enslavement. Antebellum plantation museums in the southeastern USA remain relatively underanalyzed by researchers, despite their tradition of ignoring and minimizing the contributions and struggles of the slave community. Yet, this neglect is being challenged somewhat by a growing number …
Reading the signs: Using a qualitative Geographic Information System to examine the commemoration of slavery and emancipation on historical markers in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Until recently, narratives of slavery and emancipation have been absent from, or at best marginalized within, landscapes designed to commemorate colonial, antebellum, and Civil War history in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and most other places within the United States. As many scholars, journalists, and activists argue, the erasure of slavery, Jim Crow era segregation, and other race-based discrimination from national understandings of United States'…
Is It Roslyn or Is It Cicely? Representation and the Ambiguity of Place
Representations or images of place are widely recognized as contributing to how people understand the places in which they live, work, and study. Increasingly they are being seen to contribute to the production of places as well. This paper addresses the relationships between representation and place as social processes by examining the blurring of Cicely, the Alaskan town in the television show Northern Exposure, and Roslyn, the town in Washingt…
A Slavery Museum: Race, Memory, and Landscape in Fredericksburg, Virginia
In spring 2001, former governor Douglas Wilder announced that he might locate the United States National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Despite some recent changes, Fredericksburg's heritage tourism landscape, as it is built and performed, reproduces a white American nationalism extolling the virtues of individualism, valor, and free enterprise. The mere potential of adding the Museum to Fredericksburg's landscape engendered intense …
Finding a place in the world-economy
Following the story: Narrative mapping as a mobile method for tracking and interrogating spatial narratives
Museums and heritage tourism sites are highly curated places of memory work whose function is the assembling and ordering of space and narrative to contour visitors’ experiences of the past. Variations in such experiences within and between sites, however, necessitates a method that: (1) captures how guides, visitors, and exhibits interact within spaces when representing and performing history and (2) allows researchers to document those variatio…
Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory
This article, structured as a prompt-and-response work, is authored by members of a research team investigating how slavery is absent and present at tourism plantation museums in the U.S. South. The prompt for the discussion grew out of E. Arnold Modlin’s concern that, even at museums where narratives and landscapes center on enslaved people, the presence of the master and enslaver within the same space ensures that once-enslaved people are alway…
A more perfect union? The place of Black lives in presidential plantation sites
While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Highland work to recover the lives of people enslaved by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, their institutional missions emphasize the importance of these four men within American history. The resulting impediments to honoring Black lives within these spaces can be best understood using the analytical framework of reputational politics and by recognizing the roles visitors have in reproduci…
Finding a place in the world-economy
Is It Roslyn or Is It Cicely? Representation and the Ambiguity of Place
Representations or images of place are widely recognized as contributing to how people understand the places in which they live, work, and study. Increasingly they are being seen to contribute to the production of places as well. This paper addresses the relationships between representation and place as social processes by examining the blurring of Cicely, the Alaskan town in the television show Northern Exposure, and Roslyn, the town in Washingt…
The Liberal-Conservative Ideology of U.S. Senators: A New Measure
Responding to widespread concerns about how scholars typically measure legislators' ideologies, we propose, implement, and test the efficacy of a novel measurement approach. We employ formal content analysis of the news coverage of U.S. Senators' initial campaigns for office to create an ideology scale for members of the 101st Congress. We also offer systematic tests of reliability and of convergent and discriminant construct validity for this sc…
Representations and identities in tourism map spaces
Tourism maps remain underexamined in geography. Despite recent trends in critical cartography and tourism studies that redefine the relationship between space and representation, these geographic texts are rarely explored for their intertextual relationships with the spaces they claim to represent. In this article, we argue that tourism maps and other representations play an important role in the production of tourism spaces. We begin with an exa…
Methodological frameworks for the geography of organizations
Representation as work in 'America's most historic city
This paper examines how the practices of heritage tourism reproduce identities in and of Fredericksburg, Virginia. In particular, we focus on the everyday practices of tourism workers who are essential in the representation and reproduction of this heritage space. In so doing, we want to move away from research in geography that theorizes representation and embodiment as distinct realms of experience and inquiry. Instead, we argue that representa…
A Slavery Museum: Race, Memory, and Landscape in Fredericksburg, Virginia
In spring 2001, former governor Douglas Wilder announced that he might locate the United States National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Despite some recent changes, Fredericksburg's heritage tourism landscape, as it is built and performed, reproduces a white American nationalism extolling the virtues of individualism, valor, and free enterprise. The mere potential of adding the Museum to Fredericksburg's landscape engendered intense …
Cartographic Memories of Slavery and Freedom: Examining John Washington's Map and Mapping of Fredericksburg, Virginia
In 1873, former slave John Washington (1838–1918) wrote his memoir, Memorys of the Past. This account includes a remarkable map that locates Washington's experiences as a slave, his acts of resistance, and the route of his escape from bondage in 1862. Washington's map is both a work of memory and a rare example of a subaltern cartographic practice. The act of mapping his experiences in Fredericksburg, Virginia, challenges the long-dominant memory…
Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument
Seth C. Bruggeman Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008, xi+260 pp., US$24.95 paperback, (ISBN 978-0-8203-3178-2), US$59.95 hardback, (ISBN: 978-0-8203-3177-5) Historian Seth Bruggeman's He
Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962
Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies
Reading the commemorative landscape with a qualitative GIS
Music plays an important role in the geographic construction of identity. Increasingly, researchers note that music is both a fundamental part of how places are made meaningful in everyday life and, simultaneously, a mechanism through which places are made profitable through the packaging, marketing, and selling of culture in the global tourism industry. Yet, because music is an aural and emotional practice/experience, research into the relations…
Memory, slavery, and plantation museums: The River Road Project
Heritage tourism plays an increasingly important yet controversial role in interpreting the emotionally and politically charged memories and legacies of African enslavement. Antebellum plantation museums in the southeastern USA remain relatively underanalyzed by researchers, despite their tradition of ignoring and minimizing the contributions and struggles of the slave community. Yet, this neglect is being challenged somewhat by a growing number …
Placing the enslaved at Oak Alley Plantation: Narratives, spatial contexts, and the limits of surrogation
As iconic landscapes of the American South and significant heritage tourism destinations, Southern plantation museums have traditionally erased slavery and the enslaved from their narratives of the antebellum past. Recently, some plantation museums, such as Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana, are commemorating the enslaved within their landscapes and narratives, although often in limited and insufficient ways. In this paper, I draw on theories of …
Reading the signs: Using a qualitative Geographic Information System to examine the commemoration of slavery and emancipation on historical markers in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Until recently, narratives of slavery and emancipation have been absent from, or at best marginalized within, landscapes designed to commemorate colonial, antebellum, and Civil War history in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and most other places within the United States. As many scholars, journalists, and activists argue, the erasure of slavery, Jim Crow era segregation, and other race-based discrimination from national understandings of United States'…
Representation and Presentation
Representation, including the presentation of spatial patterns in maps and diagrams, is a contested concept at the core of geography, cartography, and GIScience. Since the 1950s, scholars and practitioners engaging with maps as both products and practices have situated representation in the science of communication and geovisualization on the one hand or within critical social theory on the other. More recently, some research attempts to operatio…
Following the story: Narrative mapping as a mobile method for tracking and interrogating spatial narratives
Museums and heritage tourism sites are highly curated places of memory work whose function is the assembling and ordering of space and narrative to contour visitors’ experiences of the past. Variations in such experiences within and between sites, however, necessitates a method that: (1) captures how guides, visitors, and exhibits interact within spaces when representing and performing history and (2) allows researchers to document those variatio…
Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory
This article, structured as a prompt-and-response work, is authored by members of a research team investigating how slavery is absent and present at tourism plantation museums in the U.S. South. The prompt for the discussion grew out of E. Arnold Modlin’s concern that, even at museums where narratives and landscapes center on enslaved people, the presence of the master and enslaver within the same space ensures that once-enslaved people are alway…
“Give them more and more for their dollar”
In the United States, visitors to heritage sites have been steadily declining, and in the wake of this phenomenon, these sites have often turned to edutainment as a way to diversify methods to earn diminishing revenue in an increasingly competitive heritage tourism market. The term edutainment is a portmanteau (education/entertainment) signifying the tendency of controlling stakeholders of cultural institutions to infuse elements of entertainment…
The Local Role of Southern Tourism Plantations in Defining a Larger Southern Regional Identity as Reflected in Tourists' Surveys
To what extent does local variation exist in the expressed interests of planta- tion museum tourists? While the study of plantation museums is of growing importance in the tourism literature, these existing studies have tended to focus on a single site or a single region. This study examines data collected at several southern plantations across multiple smaller areas in the U.S. Southeast. Specifically, we are curious about tourists’ interests in…
Journeys back along the roads to Mandalay, Imphal and Kohima: Recent contributions to the history of the Burma theatre in the Second World War
This article explores recent literature on the often-overlooked Burma theatre of the Second World War. The brutal contest in Burma, which took place in the most hostile of climates, was never a priority for any of the belligerents in the global war. Despite this, a re-examination of the men who fought in the jungles, hills, and plains of Burma from myriad nations and cultures – and who bled and died in their thousands – adds a number of dimension…
A more perfect union? The place of Black lives in presidential plantation sites
While Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, and Highland work to recover the lives of people enslaved by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, their institutional missions emphasize the importance of these four men within American history. The resulting impediments to honoring Black lives within these spaces can be best understood using the analytical framework of reputational politics and by recognizing the roles visitors have in reproduci…
Black cartography as memory work
In 1873, John Washington completed his memoir, Memorys of the Past, in which he described his growth from an enslaved child to a Black man who emancipated himself in the spring of 1862. The memoir includes his meticulously drawn map of Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, identifying places important to his memories of enslavement and, most notably, the location where he crossed the Rappahannock River to freedom. Washington’s map is an exampl…
Creating Memories in Community
This special issue expands the field of community geography by foregrounding its vital intersection with memory work. Rooted in participatory partnerships, the six contributions explore how marginalized communities engage in place-based memory to reclaim, narrate, and spatialize their histories. Through projects ranging from Black history trails in Georgia and Virginia to Indigenous counter-mapping in Canada and survivor-led commemorations in Ire…
Do No Harm: How Fredericksburg's Civil Rights Trail Emerged Through Collaboration and Care
Reworking how the public understands a place’s past requires changing how that history is written and how it is practiced in public spaces. Freedom, A Work in Progress, the new civil rights trail in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is an attempt to center Black history in the ways both residents and visitors remember the past in a small Southern city. Throughout the twentieth century, heritage-themed tours, historical markers, and Civil War battle reena…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Art (9 works) · History (9 works) · Tourism (9 works)