Lightness and weight
(Re)reading Urban Potentialities Through Photographs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8360409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cian O’callaghan (0000-0002-7976-4833, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, corresponding author), Cian O'Callaghan |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 200-207 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Area (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2011.01078.x |
| OpenAlex | W2151787633 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
Geographical fieldwork often involves using photography to document and illustrate theoretical and empirical concerns. Capturing images is deeply entwined in a complex web of associations, linking the epistemology of research practice with the perceived nature of evolving spatial processes. One example of this is the way urban geographers use images to document the transformation of urban landscapes. This is the outcome of not only material but also discursive forces that reshape the urban imaginary. The discourses of post‐industrial entrepreneurial urbanism that stimulated the development of Irish cities during the Celtic Tiger offer a clear case in point. However, when the set of relations and suppositions that underpin the way in which we formulate meaning through these landscape images shifts – such as the case with the current economic ‘crisis’– then the images themselves take on new resonances, identities and potentialities. Taking the Celtic Tiger crash as a starting point, this article explores one image taken during fieldwork researching urban change in Cork. Focusing on the way in which the image disrupts the linear (progress) vision of the city, the article examines how in the absence of a clear urban ‘idea’ we are left with an uncoordinated system of urban signs, but also perhaps a deterritorialised city of potentiality
Aesthetics · Art · Celtic Tiger · Epistemology · Irish · Lightness · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Photography · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · The Imaginary · Urbanism · Visual arts · Architecture · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance
Industrial Ruins
The Practice of Everyday Life
Understanding Contemporary Ireland
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
Recreating place, replacing memory
Urban Space and the Uses of Culture
Portraying, classifying and understanding the emerging landscapes in the post-industrial city
Identity, politics and conflict in dockland development in Cork, Ireland
On the Need to Ask How, Exactly, Is Geography “Visual”
The Hair in the Gate
Telling small stories
Cultural policy in Singapore
The City and Topologies of Memory
Of Stones, Angels and Humans
Placing Neoliberalism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |