Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, which are often romanticized as pure, good, and just, and perceived as protectors of those who are powerless, indigenous, and colonized. The book takes a new stance on sentient landscapes with the intention of dispelling the denial of “coevalness” represented by their scholarly romanticization.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Alexandra Coțofană
Chapter 1. Adamastor unbound? Whiteness and landscape in post-1994 South Africa
Scott Burnett
Chapter 2. Part of the Landscape: Quebecois Nationalism and Indigenous Sentience
Philippe Blouin
Chapter 3. Ingrained Ontologies: How Romania’s Institutionalized Processes Teach Us to Think with Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes
Alexandra Coțofană
Chapter 4. Hostile Territory: Communal Politics and Sentient Landscape in Ladakh, Himalayan India
Callum Pearce
Chapter 5. Forests as the Sentient Bridge between German Landscape and Identity
Hikmet Kuran
Chapter 6. Unruly Landscapes: Contested Desert Imaginaries in Post- Franco Spain
Arvid van Dam
Chapter 7. Shinkoku: Reconsidering the Concept of Sentient Landscapes from Japan
David Malitz
Chapter 8. Imagining Chile’s South: The Making of a Phobic Landscape of Prestige in the Forests
Georg T. A. Krizmanics
Chapter 9. Can the Forests be Xenophobic? Migrant Pathways through Croatia and the Forest as Cover
Sarah Czerny, Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše and Sanja Bojanić
Chapter 10. Footsteps through the City: Encounters with Social Justice in Czech Urban Landscapes
Susanna Trnka
Epilogue: Why it is Vital to Scrutinize the Connection between Landscape, Sentience and Xenophobia in the Age of Deepening Crises of Democracy and Ecology?
Hikmet Kuran
Index
About the author
Hikmet Kuran is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts, Department of City and Regional Planning at Cappadocia University in Turkey.
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