The trouble with representation

Landscape and Environmental Justice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8068420
AutoresTom Mels (autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume41
Fascículo4
Páginas417-424
Data de publicação2016-04-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLandscape Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0142-6397 • E-ISSN: 1469-9710
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01426397.2016.1156071
OpenAlexW2326104707
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas30

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 engagement with political representation. The concern here, crucially, is to understand representation as a core concept of justice, entwined with the social and material struggle over the right to landscape. In effect, to understand how landscapes materialise struggles over justice, an engagement with political representation is indispensable. As this paper elucidates, one potential consequence of the rediscovery of the political logic of representation is a rapprochement of landscape studies with environmental justice

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Cultural landscape · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · Geography · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy