Tom Mels
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 179248 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tom Mels |
| PRENOMES | Tom |
| SOBRENOME | Mels |
| ASSINATURA | MELS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Uppsala University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world
Tourism and conservation policies in Sweden share a significant common history, involving constructions of the non-human world. In this paper, the development of this historical relationship is traced through national park policies and the Swedish Tourist Association's yearbooks, from the late nineteenth century onward. We explore this in theoretical terms of what Nancy Fraser has called ‘boundary struggles’: constantly mutating institutionalized…
The Meanings of Landscape
Environmental Discourse
Environmental discourses are frameworks of meanings about the biogeophysical world and its natural and social qualities. Drawing on a range of intellectual positions in the humanities and social sciences since the 1980s, environmental discourse has come to describe the social process of mediation in the construction of knowledge through which the world is rendered recognizable and meaningful, but also acted upon. This engages with the social and …
Existentialism
Existentialism insists that human experience, awareness, and everyday life need to be a fundamental part of scholarly engagement. Within geography, this strain of thought is most strongly associated with humanistic geography and its development for an understanding of the lifeworld, experiences of place, and spatiality as a mode of being‐in‐the‐world. While of seminal importance to contemporary understandings of the situatedness of knowledge and …
Reanimating Places
Time-space relationships are central to human geography. This book seeks to reanimate time-space, by considering the links between lived experience, various temporalities and particular places in terms of compounded and contested rhythms. Time-space rhythms emphasize the practical, symbolic, everyday and embodied qualities in the experience and making of our geographical environment. Bringing together a team of renowned geographers who have been …
The trouble with representation
In landscape studies, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the concept of representation has been high on the agenda. Representation has often been understood as the expression of particular cultural politics of landscape, accentuating the socially biased and incomplete nature of textual and visual mediations of the world. In more recent work, it is possible to discern a shift from this emphasis on cultural representation to a fuller engageme…
Primitive Accumulation and the Production of Abstract Space
In Henri Lefebvre's work, abstract space entails qualitatively new ways of envisioning and strategically arranging the sites within which capital accumulation and everyday life are to unfold. This paper sets out to delineate how this premise can be profitably used to decipher contested tactics of primitive accumulation. Arguing from a particular case—nineteenth‐century reclamation of mires on the island of Gotland, Sweden—the paper explores how p…
Figures in the revolutionary landscape
Romance, practice and substantiveness
Although Torsten Hägerstrand is not known primarily as a landscape geographer, he made significant contributions to the understanding of landscape in Swedish geography. This paper argues that Hägerstrand examined the importance of representation for the understanding of landscape as place and territory, which is a key ingredient in current engagements with landscape within (Nordic) geography and the broader European political context. The current…
The Low Countries' connection
Between ‘Platial’ Imaginations and Spatial Rationalities
During the past two decades, landscape has frequently been conceptualized as a distancing way of seeing space. This conceptualization is normally traced back to the rise of capitalism and various modes of artistic representation, notably in the early modern Netherlands or the northern Low Countries. Yet recent scholarly interventions have asserted that landscape in the Low Countries and elsewhere in Europe was more than a distant scenery or an ar…
Landscape unmasked
Nature, Home, and Scenery
In this paper I explore past and present ‘official’ spatialities of the Swedish national parks, and trace ways in which rhetorical mediation secures the naturalization and nationalization of park spaces. With the help of Lefebvre's writings on space, I argue that three interrelated spatialities constitute the abstract space of Swedish national parks: empty, organic, and optical space. Empty space embodies understandings of national parks as ‘pure…
Nature, Home, and Scenery
In this paper I explore past and present ‘official’ spatialities of the Swedish national parks, and trace ways in which rhetorical mediation secures the naturalization and nationalization of park spaces. With the help of Lefebvre's writings on space, I argue that three interrelated spatialities constitute the abstract space of Swedish national parks: empty, organic, and optical space. Empty space embodies understandings of national parks as ‘pure…
Reanimating Places
Time-space relationships are central to human geography. This book seeks to reanimate time-space, by considering the links between lived experience, various temporalities and particular places in terms of compounded and contested rhythms. Time-space rhythms emphasize the practical, symbolic, everyday and embodied qualities in the experience and making of our geographical environment. Bringing together a team of renowned geographers who have been …
The trouble with representation
In landscape studies, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the concept of representation has been high on the agenda. Representation has often been understood as the expression of particular cultural politics of landscape, accentuating the socially biased and incomplete nature of textual and visual mediations of the world. In more recent work, it is possible to discern a shift from this emphasis on cultural representation to a fuller engageme…
Landscape unmasked
Romance, practice and substantiveness
Although Torsten Hägerstrand is not known primarily as a landscape geographer, he made significant contributions to the understanding of landscape in Swedish geography. This paper argues that Hägerstrand examined the importance of representation for the understanding of landscape as place and territory, which is a key ingredient in current engagements with landscape within (Nordic) geography and the broader European political context. The current…
The Low Countries' connection
Primitive Accumulation and the Production of Abstract Space
In Henri Lefebvre's work, abstract space entails qualitatively new ways of envisioning and strategically arranging the sites within which capital accumulation and everyday life are to unfold. This paper sets out to delineate how this premise can be profitably used to decipher contested tactics of primitive accumulation. Arguing from a particular case—nineteenth‐century reclamation of mires on the island of Gotland, Sweden—the paper explores how p…
The Meanings of Landscape
Between ‘Platial’ Imaginations and Spatial Rationalities
During the past two decades, landscape has frequently been conceptualized as a distancing way of seeing space. This conceptualization is normally traced back to the rise of capitalism and various modes of artistic representation, notably in the early modern Netherlands or the northern Low Countries. Yet recent scholarly interventions have asserted that landscape in the Low Countries and elsewhere in Europe was more than a distant scenery or an ar…
Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world
Tourism and conservation policies in Sweden share a significant common history, involving constructions of the non-human world. In this paper, the development of this historical relationship is traced through national park policies and the Swedish Tourist Association's yearbooks, from the late nineteenth century onward. We explore this in theoretical terms of what Nancy Fraser has called ‘boundary struggles’: constantly mutating institutionalized…
Nature, Home, and Scenery
In this paper I explore past and present ‘official’ spatialities of the Swedish national parks, and trace ways in which rhetorical mediation secures the naturalization and nationalization of park spaces. With the help of Lefebvre's writings on space, I argue that three interrelated spatialities constitute the abstract space of Swedish national parks: empty, organic, and optical space. Empty space embodies understandings of national parks as ‘pure…
Landscape unmasked
Between ‘Platial’ Imaginations and Spatial Rationalities
During the past two decades, landscape has frequently been conceptualized as a distancing way of seeing space. This conceptualization is normally traced back to the rise of capitalism and various modes of artistic representation, notably in the early modern Netherlands or the northern Low Countries. Yet recent scholarly interventions have asserted that landscape in the Low Countries and elsewhere in Europe was more than a distant scenery or an ar…
The Low Countries' connection
Romance, practice and substantiveness
Although Torsten Hägerstrand is not known primarily as a landscape geographer, he made significant contributions to the understanding of landscape in Swedish geography. This paper argues that Hägerstrand examined the importance of representation for the understanding of landscape as place and territory, which is a key ingredient in current engagements with landscape within (Nordic) geography and the broader European political context. The current…
Figures in the revolutionary landscape
Primitive Accumulation and the Production of Abstract Space
In Henri Lefebvre's work, abstract space entails qualitatively new ways of envisioning and strategically arranging the sites within which capital accumulation and everyday life are to unfold. This paper sets out to delineate how this premise can be profitably used to decipher contested tactics of primitive accumulation. Arguing from a particular case—nineteenth‐century reclamation of mires on the island of Gotland, Sweden—the paper explores how p…
Reanimating Places
Time-space relationships are central to human geography. This book seeks to reanimate time-space, by considering the links between lived experience, various temporalities and particular places in terms of compounded and contested rhythms. Time-space rhythms emphasize the practical, symbolic, everyday and embodied qualities in the experience and making of our geographical environment. Bringing together a team of renowned geographers who have been …
The trouble with representation
In landscape studies, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the concept of representation has been high on the agenda. Representation has often been understood as the expression of particular cultural politics of landscape, accentuating the socially biased and incomplete nature of textual and visual mediations of the world. In more recent work, it is possible to discern a shift from this emphasis on cultural representation to a fuller engageme…
Environmental Discourse
Environmental discourses are frameworks of meanings about the biogeophysical world and its natural and social qualities. Drawing on a range of intellectual positions in the humanities and social sciences since the 1980s, environmental discourse has come to describe the social process of mediation in the construction of knowledge through which the world is rendered recognizable and meaningful, but also acted upon. This engages with the social and …
Existentialism
Existentialism insists that human experience, awareness, and everyday life need to be a fundamental part of scholarly engagement. Within geography, this strain of thought is most strongly associated with humanistic geography and its development for an understanding of the lifeworld, experiences of place, and spatiality as a mode of being‐in‐the‐world. While of seminal importance to contemporary understandings of the situatedness of knowledge and …
The Meanings of Landscape
Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world
Tourism and conservation policies in Sweden share a significant common history, involving constructions of the non-human world. In this paper, the development of this historical relationship is traced through national park policies and the Swedish Tourist Association's yearbooks, from the late nineteenth century onward. We explore this in theoretical terms of what Nancy Fraser has called ‘boundary struggles’: constantly mutating institutionalized…
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