Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. PART 1 - Introduction

   1. Landscapes of A New Cultural Economy of Space: An Introduction

      Pages 1-18

3. PART 2 - Processes of enworldment

   1. Embodiment and performance in the making of contemporary cultural economies

      • David Crouch

      Pages 19-39

   2. Landscapes of scenes: socio-spatial strategies of culturepreneurs in Berlin

      • Bastian Lange

      Pages 41-67

4. PART 3 - Processes of unworldment

   1. Los Angeles and the italian 'Citta diffusa': landscapes of the cultural space economy

      • Denis Cosgrove

      Pages 69-91

   2. Traveling/writing the unworld with Alexander von Humboldt.

      • Andrew Sluyter

      Pages 93-116

5. Part 4 - Processes of deworldment

   1. From places to non-places? Landscape and sense of place in the Finnish and Estonian countrysides

      • Katriina Soini, Hannes Palang, Kadri Semm

      Pages 117-148

   2. Landscapes of the Tropics: tourism and the new cultural economy in the third world

      • Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre

      Pages 149-169

6. Part 5- Processes of transworldment

   1. Global Ground Zero: place, landscape and nothingness

      • Kenneth R. Olwig

      Pages 171-192

   2. In post-modern technologised landscapes

      • Jussi S. Jauhiainen

      Pages 193-211

   3. Symbolic landscapes of Vieux-Québec

      • Martine Geronimi

      Pages 213-237

7. Part 6 - Conclusions

   1. Towards reworldment: conclusions

      • Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Theano S. Terkenli

      Pages 239-245

8. Back Matter

   Pages 246-246

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Making sense of new cultural economies, it is argued, needs consistent attention to the resonances of individual lives. Otherwise, a discussion of cultural economies remains suspended in a detached virtualism (Miller, 2000). The idea of the remaking of geographies and cultural economies remains, necessarily, a consistent search to make the subject dynamic in its resonance with the contemporary world. In recent debates concerning the reframing of the cultural economies of geography, there is an evidence of increasing acknowledgement of the overlooked importance of subjectivities within geographical explanation. This has often been difficult when trying to attend to the large scale apparent dynamics of change. The shift of geographies to focus upon cultural economies combines two profound threads that inform this chapter: the acknowledgement of the breadth and inclusivity of what economies are and the refusal mutually to isolate the cultural and the economic. Thus the economic becomes engaged and even framed in relation to the cultural, and vice versa. Such an appraisal makes more robust the limits of ‘either – or’ claims from these two grounding components of geographical thinking and its representation of the world. These themes are sustained in different ways across the chapters of this book. This chapter seeks to build a critical discourse concerning space, embodied practice and lay knowledge. It does this in order to address the mechanisms through which individuals are engaged in the processes of new cultural economies.

• Nation
• Terkenli
• Transformation
• landscape
• tourism
• landscape/regional and urban planning

From the reviews:

"The strength of this book is the indepth and multiple perspectives investigation of landscape transformation … . The book is reader-friendly and its chapters are well-structured around the four processes of landscape transformations. … Overall, this is a well-written and easy-to-read book … . The book links disparate research being done in the field and provides a comprehensive guide and useful source of references to graduate students, university faculty, tourism professionals, and policymakers." (Marianna Sigala, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 34 (3), 2007)

"Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space helps to link recent discussions of the cultural economy of space and globalization with the well-established literature on landscape in cultural geography. … The stated goal of this edited volume is to explore how culture and economy intersect in the creation of contemporary places and landscapes. … a good starting point for researchers seeking to explore the contours of landscapes shaped by the new cultural economy." (Michael W. Longan, The Professional Geographer, Vol. 60 (1), February, 2008)

• University of the Aegean, Greece

  Theano S. Terkenli

• University of Waikato, New Zealand

  Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre

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