Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2010
Abstract
A decade and a half after Cosgrove and Jackson (1987) wrote their seminal piece on ‘new’ cultural geography, the discipline of geography has experienced a ‘cultural’ turn. Economic geography, for instance, has been infleected through perspectives that take on board cultural retheorisations (see Thrift and Olds, 1996; Thrift, 2000). Within urban studies, the acknowledgement of culture’s powers is not new (see, for example, Agnew et al., 1984). Yet, geographers scrutinising urban landscapes have moved the field, using some of the retheorised perspectives that Cosgrove and Jackson (1987) encapsulated. Of most pertinence to this volume is the retheorised notion of culture which takes into consideration contestations between groups, evident in city contexts—for example, in the imposition and demolition of monuments, the struggle for public space and its meanings, and the appropriation and transformation of landscapes and significations from the dominant culture by subordinate groups as forms of resistance. A body of writings has since developed which acknowledges that cultures and landscapes (including urban landscapes) are politically contested.
Keywords
Landscape, Public space, Urban area, Asia
Discipline
Asian Studies | Human Geography | Urban Studies
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Urban Studies
Volume
39
Issue
9
First Page
1503
Last Page
1512
ISSN
0042-0980
Identifier
10.1080/00420980220151628
Publisher
SAGE
Citation
Kong, Lily, & Law, Lisa.(2010). Introduction: Contested Landscapes, Asian Cities. Urban Studies, 39(9), 1503-1512.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1798
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980220151628