Scott Kirsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Kirsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirsch |
| SIGNATURE | KIRSCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
An archive of good roads and racial capitalism in North Carolina
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of U.S. colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space. From concrete interventions in infrastructure, urban planning, and built environments to more abstract projects of mapping and territorialization, the book traces the efforts of U.S. Insular Government agents to make s…
Contested Territory: Điên Biện Phủ and the Making of Northwest Vietnam
Christian C. Lentz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xvi and 331 pp., illus. $35 cloth (ISBN 9780300233957).We are delighted to bring together this forum on Contested Territory by Christ
Aesthetic Regime Change: The Burnham Plans and US Landscape Imperialism in the Philippines
Taking Daniel Burnham's 1904–1905 visit to the Philippines as a starting point, this article examines the unrealized dream of US colonial officials to extend American empire through the production of space, particularly the aesthetic dimensions or what might be called a landscape vision of US empire. It offers a brief but intimate history of the making of the Burnham plans for Manila and Baguio so as to better understand how the ideological contr…
Reconstructing Conflict
Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies
Insular territories: US colonial science, geopolitics, and the (re)mapping of the Philippines
Examining the category of the Insular as a key framing of US extraterritorial, inter-oceanic power during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the paper examines two overlapping sets of geographical discourses and mapping practices - broadly characterised as geopolitical-imperial and scientific-governmental - that reflected US efforts to map (remap) the Philippines after 1898, beginning with the purchase of Spanish (Jesuit) geograph…
Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions
Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the history of geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the history of geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a d…
Cultural geography III: Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’ the Anthropocene landscape
Unless they are to suddenly evaporate, material objects, endowed with varying capacities to move through the ages, are matters of time as well as of space. Long-term perspectives – from the historical to the geological – have been engaged by cultural geographers as a means of shedding light on linked discursive and material transformations, offering useful vantage points on the temporalities of human (and inhuman) existence through the existence …
Cultural geography II: Cultures of nature (and technology)
Recent cultural geographic research, located at a variety of settings (laboratory, clinic, battlefield, container port), has emphasized culture’s productive dimensions through studies of the linked construction of nature, culture, and technologies. In this second of three reports, I examine a range of scholarship that asks in different ways what it means to be formative in the production of nature, and I discuss the implications of recent efforts…
State, Space, World: Selected Essays by Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre , State, Space, World: Selected Essays ( translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden; edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden ). Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . ISBN 978-0-8166-5317-1 ( paper ), ISBN 978-0-8166-5316-4 ( cloth ) If it is no longer remarkable in Anglophone geography to speak of space, nature, and landscapes as socially produced, it is largely a reflection of the extent to which cont…
Cultural geography I: Materialist turns
A series of 'cultural turns' across human geography have left cultural geography itself with something of an identity crisis. I suggest that overlapping strains of materialism are already providing cultural geography with some of its 'connective wiring' and core concerns. Common materialist sensibilities are evident in recent theoretically and empirically engaged work on value and waste, which highlights the transformative work of meaning-making …
"Reading Matthew Farish's "The Contours of America's Cold War
The Allison Commission and the national map: Towards a Republic of Knowledge in late nineteenth-century America
Ecologists and the experimental landscape: The nature of science at the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Site
Although ecological conceptions of nature remain among the most authoritative in the world today, cultural geographers of landscape have paid little attention to the continuing salience of landscape as an object and scale of analysis in landscape and ecosystems ecology. That this object — a naturalized landscape of dynamic and multi-scalar systems and flows, not fixity — has been constructed, disproportionately, from some of the most technologica…
The Nature of Things: Dead Labor, Nonhuman Actors, and the Persistence of Marxism
This article is about the question of social agency in the animation of things , and about how this problematic has been conceptualized in Marxist and Actor‐Network Theory (ANT) approaches to human–nature–technology relations. Notwithstanding many obvious differences, we note that each tradition was founded on a radical shift to a relational ontology, a world of relations and processes and not things‐in‐themselves, and that each has developed, pa…
Harold Knapp and the Geography of Normal Controversy: Radioiodine in the Historical Environment
In 1962, after high levels of the isotope Iodine-131 were detected in Utah milk supplies, Dr. Harold Knapp, a mathematician working for the AEC's Division of Biology and Medicine, developed a new model of estimating, first, the relation between a single deposition of radioactive fallout on pasturage and the levels of Iodine-131 in fresh milk and, second, the total dose to human thyroids, resulting from daily intake of the contaminated milk. The i…
A hatalom, a terület és a transznacionalizmus kritikai geográfiái
Empire and the Bush Doctrine
John Wesley Powell and the Mapping of the Colorado Plateau, 1869 –1879: Survey Science, Geographical Solutions, and the Economy of Environmental Values
In 1869, John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon, the last “great blank space” on the map of the continental U.S. In the work of filling in the continental map, Powell and others in an emerging community of government scientists in Washington anticipated a new set of concerns over productivity, order, and the limits of natural resources—including land itself—in the arid lands of the West. T…
Experiments in Progress: Edward Teller’s controversial geographies
"Earth-Moving as the "Measure of Man: Edward Teller, Geographical Engineering, and the Matter of Progress
L'A. relate combien la science, l'ideologie et la politique ont joue un role dans le progres scientifique realise dans la toundra de la cote nord-ouest de l'Alaska
Watching the Bombs Go Off: Photography, Nuclear Landscapes, and Spectator Democracy
This study examines the role of photography in the Atomic Energy Commission's representation of nuclear weapons testing during the 1950s. Pictures of fireballs and mushroom clouds functioned as part of an explicit AEC strategy to reduce the public to spectators. These photographs were designed to take the place out of the landscape — unlike the contaminated places near America's nuclear proving grounds, the pages of popular magazines were not sub…
The Incredible Shrinking World? Technology and the Production of Space
This paper is about the role of technology in the transformation of space, and the ways in which these changes are represented. These processes are explored principally through critical analysis of the work of Harvey and Lefebvre; more specifically, I contrast the place of technology as expressed through their varied emphases on the annihilation of space, and the production of space. The dramatic restructuring of space and time in recent decades,…
The Incredible Shrinking World? Technology and the Production of Space
This paper is about the role of technology in the transformation of space, and the ways in which these changes are represented. These processes are explored principally through critical analysis of the work of Harvey and Lefebvre; more specifically, I contrast the place of technology as expressed through their varied emphases on the annihilation of space, and the production of space. The dramatic restructuring of space and time in recent decades,…
The Nature of Things: Dead Labor, Nonhuman Actors, and the Persistence of Marxism
This article is about the question of social agency in the animation of things , and about how this problematic has been conceptualized in Marxist and Actor‐Network Theory (ANT) approaches to human–nature–technology relations. Notwithstanding many obvious differences, we note that each tradition was founded on a radical shift to a relational ontology, a world of relations and processes and not things‐in‐themselves, and that each has developed, pa…
Cultural geography I: Materialist turns
A series of 'cultural turns' across human geography have left cultural geography itself with something of an identity crisis. I suggest that overlapping strains of materialism are already providing cultural geography with some of its 'connective wiring' and core concerns. Common materialist sensibilities are evident in recent theoretically and empirically engaged work on value and waste, which highlights the transformative work of meaning-making …
Cultural geography III: Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’ the Anthropocene landscape
Unless they are to suddenly evaporate, material objects, endowed with varying capacities to move through the ages, are matters of time as well as of space. Long-term perspectives – from the historical to the geological – have been engaged by cultural geographers as a means of shedding light on linked discursive and material transformations, offering useful vantage points on the temporalities of human (and inhuman) existence through the existence …
Empire and the Bush Doctrine
Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions
Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the history of geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the history of geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a d…
Cultural geography II: Cultures of nature (and technology)
Recent cultural geographic research, located at a variety of settings (laboratory, clinic, battlefield, container port), has emphasized culture’s productive dimensions through studies of the linked construction of nature, culture, and technologies. In this second of three reports, I examine a range of scholarship that asks in different ways what it means to be formative in the production of nature, and I discuss the implications of recent efforts…
Ecologists and the experimental landscape: The nature of science at the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Site
Although ecological conceptions of nature remain among the most authoritative in the world today, cultural geographers of landscape have paid little attention to the continuing salience of landscape as an object and scale of analysis in landscape and ecosystems ecology. That this object — a naturalized landscape of dynamic and multi-scalar systems and flows, not fixity — has been constructed, disproportionately, from some of the most technologica…
John Wesley Powell and the Mapping of the Colorado Plateau, 1869 –1879: Survey Science, Geographical Solutions, and the Economy of Environmental Values
In 1869, John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon, the last “great blank space” on the map of the continental U.S. In the work of filling in the continental map, Powell and others in an emerging community of government scientists in Washington anticipated a new set of concerns over productivity, order, and the limits of natural resources—including land itself—in the arid lands of the West. T…
Watching the Bombs Go Off: Photography, Nuclear Landscapes, and Spectator Democracy
This study examines the role of photography in the Atomic Energy Commission's representation of nuclear weapons testing during the 1950s. Pictures of fireballs and mushroom clouds functioned as part of an explicit AEC strategy to reduce the public to spectators. These photographs were designed to take the place out of the landscape — unlike the contaminated places near America's nuclear proving grounds, the pages of popular magazines were not sub…
Insular territories: US colonial science, geopolitics, and the (re)mapping of the Philippines
Examining the category of the Insular as a key framing of US extraterritorial, inter-oceanic power during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the paper examines two overlapping sets of geographical discourses and mapping practices - broadly characterised as geopolitical-imperial and scientific-governmental - that reflected US efforts to map (remap) the Philippines after 1898, beginning with the purchase of Spanish (Jesuit) geograph…
Experiments in Progress: Edward Teller’s controversial geographies
"Earth-Moving as the "Measure of Man: Edward Teller, Geographical Engineering, and the Matter of Progress
L'A. relate combien la science, l'ideologie et la politique ont joue un role dans le progres scientifique realise dans la toundra de la cote nord-ouest de l'Alaska
The Allison Commission and the national map: Towards a Republic of Knowledge in late nineteenth-century America
State, Space, World: Selected Essays by Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre , State, Space, World: Selected Essays ( translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden; edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden ). Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . ISBN 978-0-8166-5317-1 ( paper ), ISBN 978-0-8166-5316-4 ( cloth ) If it is no longer remarkable in Anglophone geography to speak of space, nature, and landscapes as socially produced, it is largely a reflection of the extent to which cont…
Harold Knapp and the Geography of Normal Controversy: Radioiodine in the Historical Environment
In 1962, after high levels of the isotope Iodine-131 were detected in Utah milk supplies, Dr. Harold Knapp, a mathematician working for the AEC's Division of Biology and Medicine, developed a new model of estimating, first, the relation between a single deposition of radioactive fallout on pasturage and the levels of Iodine-131 in fresh milk and, second, the total dose to human thyroids, resulting from daily intake of the contaminated milk. The i…
The Incredible Shrinking World? Technology and the Production of Space
This paper is about the role of technology in the transformation of space, and the ways in which these changes are represented. These processes are explored principally through critical analysis of the work of Harvey and Lefebvre; more specifically, I contrast the place of technology as expressed through their varied emphases on the annihilation of space, and the production of space. The dramatic restructuring of space and time in recent decades,…
Watching the Bombs Go Off: Photography, Nuclear Landscapes, and Spectator Democracy
This study examines the role of photography in the Atomic Energy Commission's representation of nuclear weapons testing during the 1950s. Pictures of fireballs and mushroom clouds functioned as part of an explicit AEC strategy to reduce the public to spectators. These photographs were designed to take the place out of the landscape — unlike the contaminated places near America's nuclear proving grounds, the pages of popular magazines were not sub…
Experiments in Progress: Edward Teller’s controversial geographies
"Earth-Moving as the "Measure of Man: Edward Teller, Geographical Engineering, and the Matter of Progress
L'A. relate combien la science, l'ideologie et la politique ont joue un role dans le progres scientifique realise dans la toundra de la cote nord-ouest de l'Alaska
John Wesley Powell and the Mapping of the Colorado Plateau, 1869 –1879: Survey Science, Geographical Solutions, and the Economy of Environmental Values
In 1869, John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers through the Grand Canyon, the last “great blank space” on the map of the continental U.S. In the work of filling in the continental map, Powell and others in an emerging community of government scientists in Washington anticipated a new set of concerns over productivity, order, and the limits of natural resources—including land itself—in the arid lands of the West. T…
A hatalom, a terület és a transznacionalizmus kritikai geográfiái
Empire and the Bush Doctrine
The Nature of Things: Dead Labor, Nonhuman Actors, and the Persistence of Marxism
This article is about the question of social agency in the animation of things , and about how this problematic has been conceptualized in Marxist and Actor‐Network Theory (ANT) approaches to human–nature–technology relations. Notwithstanding many obvious differences, we note that each tradition was founded on a radical shift to a relational ontology, a world of relations and processes and not things‐in‐themselves, and that each has developed, pa…
Harold Knapp and the Geography of Normal Controversy: Radioiodine in the Historical Environment
In 1962, after high levels of the isotope Iodine-131 were detected in Utah milk supplies, Dr. Harold Knapp, a mathematician working for the AEC's Division of Biology and Medicine, developed a new model of estimating, first, the relation between a single deposition of radioactive fallout on pasturage and the levels of Iodine-131 in fresh milk and, second, the total dose to human thyroids, resulting from daily intake of the contaminated milk. The i…
Ecologists and the experimental landscape: The nature of science at the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Site
Although ecological conceptions of nature remain among the most authoritative in the world today, cultural geographers of landscape have paid little attention to the continuing salience of landscape as an object and scale of analysis in landscape and ecosystems ecology. That this object — a naturalized landscape of dynamic and multi-scalar systems and flows, not fixity — has been constructed, disproportionately, from some of the most technologica…
The Allison Commission and the national map: Towards a Republic of Knowledge in late nineteenth-century America
State, Space, World: Selected Essays by Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre , State, Space, World: Selected Essays ( translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden; edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden ). Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . ISBN 978-0-8166-5317-1 ( paper ), ISBN 978-0-8166-5316-4 ( cloth ) If it is no longer remarkable in Anglophone geography to speak of space, nature, and landscapes as socially produced, it is largely a reflection of the extent to which cont…
Cultural geography I: Materialist turns
A series of 'cultural turns' across human geography have left cultural geography itself with something of an identity crisis. I suggest that overlapping strains of materialism are already providing cultural geography with some of its 'connective wiring' and core concerns. Common materialist sensibilities are evident in recent theoretically and empirically engaged work on value and waste, which highlights the transformative work of meaning-making …
"Reading Matthew Farish's "The Contours of America's Cold War
Cultural geography II: Cultures of nature (and technology)
Recent cultural geographic research, located at a variety of settings (laboratory, clinic, battlefield, container port), has emphasized culture’s productive dimensions through studies of the linked construction of nature, culture, and technologies. In this second of three reports, I examine a range of scholarship that asks in different ways what it means to be formative in the production of nature, and I discuss the implications of recent efforts…
Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions
Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the history of geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the history of geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a d…
Cultural geography III: Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’ the Anthropocene landscape
Unless they are to suddenly evaporate, material objects, endowed with varying capacities to move through the ages, are matters of time as well as of space. Long-term perspectives – from the historical to the geological – have been engaged by cultural geographers as a means of shedding light on linked discursive and material transformations, offering useful vantage points on the temporalities of human (and inhuman) existence through the existence …
Reconstructing Conflict
Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies
Insular territories: US colonial science, geopolitics, and the (re)mapping of the Philippines
Examining the category of the Insular as a key framing of US extraterritorial, inter-oceanic power during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the paper examines two overlapping sets of geographical discourses and mapping practices - broadly characterised as geopolitical-imperial and scientific-governmental - that reflected US efforts to map (remap) the Philippines after 1898, beginning with the purchase of Spanish (Jesuit) geograph…
Aesthetic Regime Change: The Burnham Plans and US Landscape Imperialism in the Philippines
Taking Daniel Burnham's 1904–1905 visit to the Philippines as a starting point, this article examines the unrealized dream of US colonial officials to extend American empire through the production of space, particularly the aesthetic dimensions or what might be called a landscape vision of US empire. It offers a brief but intimate history of the making of the Burnham plans for Manila and Baguio so as to better understand how the ideological contr…
Contested Territory: Điên Biện Phủ and the Making of Northwest Vietnam
Christian C. Lentz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. xvi and 331 pp., illus. $35 cloth (ISBN 9780300233957).We are delighted to bring together this forum on Contested Territory by Christ
An archive of good roads and racial capitalism in North Carolina
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of U.S. colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring American empire in the Philippines through the production of space. From concrete interventions in infrastructure, urban planning, and built environments to more abstract projects of mapping and territorialization, the book traces the efforts of U.S. Insular Government agents to make s…
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