Erin Despard
Biographic Data
| ID | 2332012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Despard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Despard |
| SIGNATURE | DESPARD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion
In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favored over more pragmatic approaches to management, even though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that suc…
Diagram of a love for plants gone bad
This article uses a surprising horticultural event-an unplanned, collective 'theft' of plants from the Montreal Botanical Garden in 1981-as impetus to interrogate the contribution of garden plants to public life in so-called 'green' cities of the late twentieth century. As sites of both social nature and material culture that are perceived as socially and environmentally beneficial and frequently designed to appear more-or-less natural, gardens a…
Photographic social media, designed landscapes and urban, place-based visibilities
Beginning from the double premise that, particularly in the city, designed landscapes function as a socially and culturally powerful form of visual media, and that they do so in interaction with other visual media forms, this paper seeks to both investigate and challenge what is taken as a reciprocal shaping of urban visibilities. This investigation is occasioned primarily by the rise of digital and networked photographies, and the disruptive pot…
Cultivating Security
After the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, landscape architects in North America have been called on to design public landscapes that are not only more secure but also aesthetically pleasing. In this article, the author explores the cultural and political implications of certain plant-based design strategies drawn from the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design movement—in particular those that facilitate visual surveillance of publ…
Writing with the Jardins des Floralies in Montreal
This paper, based on a larger research project, explores the possibility that gardens and other designed landscapes can be considered historically active. Inspired in part by the gardens of Gilles Clément and Louis Le Roy, I argue that natural processes of growth and change play an important role in the kinds of historical change we might read in gardens. The apprehension of these processes together with the traces of human intervention that atte…
Hybrids
Photographic social media, designed landscapes and urban, place-based visibilities
Beginning from the double premise that, particularly in the city, designed landscapes function as a socially and culturally powerful form of visual media, and that they do so in interaction with other visual media forms, this paper seeks to both investigate and challenge what is taken as a reciprocal shaping of urban visibilities. This investigation is occasioned primarily by the rise of digital and networked photographies, and the disruptive pot…
Cultivating Security
After the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, landscape architects in North America have been called on to design public landscapes that are not only more secure but also aesthetically pleasing. In this article, the author explores the cultural and political implications of certain plant-based design strategies drawn from the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design movement—in particular those that facilitate visual surveillance of publ…
Hybrids
Writing with the Jardins des Floralies in Montreal
This paper, based on a larger research project, explores the possibility that gardens and other designed landscapes can be considered historically active. Inspired in part by the gardens of Gilles Clément and Louis Le Roy, I argue that natural processes of growth and change play an important role in the kinds of historical change we might read in gardens. The apprehension of these processes together with the traces of human intervention that atte…
Cultivating Security
After the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, landscape architects in North America have been called on to design public landscapes that are not only more secure but also aesthetically pleasing. In this article, the author explores the cultural and political implications of certain plant-based design strategies drawn from the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design movement—in particular those that facilitate visual surveillance of publ…
Photographic social media, designed landscapes and urban, place-based visibilities
Beginning from the double premise that, particularly in the city, designed landscapes function as a socially and culturally powerful form of visual media, and that they do so in interaction with other visual media forms, this paper seeks to both investigate and challenge what is taken as a reciprocal shaping of urban visibilities. This investigation is occasioned primarily by the rise of digital and networked photographies, and the disruptive pot…
Diagram of a love for plants gone bad
This article uses a surprising horticultural event-an unplanned, collective 'theft' of plants from the Montreal Botanical Garden in 1981-as impetus to interrogate the contribution of garden plants to public life in so-called 'green' cities of the late twentieth century. As sites of both social nature and material culture that are perceived as socially and environmentally beneficial and frequently designed to appear more-or-less natural, gardens a…
Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion
In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favored over more pragmatic approaches to management, even though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that suc…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Civil engineering (2 works)