HUM 3394: Representations of Place and Space

Part Five: Understanding and Connecting With Place

Reading for this part (other than what is in the reading package): Cross, Jennifer. "What is Sense of Place?" http://www.western.edu/headwaters/archives/headwaters12_papers/cross_paper.html

Sense of Place

Community Attachment

• What does it take to make a community?
• Jennifer Cross's Analysis of "Sense of Place"

Topophilia/Love of Place

• Yi-Fu Tuan

Spirit of Place/Genius Loci

• See the "Genius Loci" page
  
  
• Spirits of Place
• Romantic Place in Literature
• Modern Romanticism: Spirit of Place worksheet
• Geomancy
• The Megalith Portal and Megalith Map
  
  
• Why Spirit of Place?

Narratives of Place

Elizabeth Bird, "It Makes Sense To Us: Cultural Identity in Local Legends of Place"

Urban Legends

• Legends of Place
• Urban Legends
  • UrbanLegends.com
  • *Urban Legends Reference Pages
  • Christian Urban Legends
  • Urban Legends Electronic Art Exhibit

Folklore

• Folklore
• Louisiana Voices: Folklife in Education Project
• Folklore Texts and Resources
  • American Folklore Society
    • Definitions of Folklore
  • Folklore and Mythology Texts
  • *Myths and Legends
  • Norwegian Folk Legends
  • *Encyclopedia Mythica: Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore, and Legend
  • Native American Legends, Folk Tales, and Stories
  • Urban Legends: Language Legends

Local Stories

• History of Camrose
• Stories that don't show up in the histories
• Elizabeth Bird & Narratives of Place
• Orlando Stories
  • Ghosts and Greenwood Cemetary
  • Orlando Hauntings
  • Orlando: A Visual History

Place and Literature

• Prairie Sense of Place
• Barry Lopez, "A Literature of Place"

Mythological Sense of Place

Australian Aboriginal Culture

• Bruce Chatwin and The Songlines
• Australian Aborigine Resources
  • Songlines in Aboriginal Culture
  • The Universe of the Aborigine
  • The Dreaming: Time and Space (discussion of Fred Myers, Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self)
  • Australian Aborigine Stories
  • Pintupi Art, and here as well.
  • Aboriginal Studies Virtual Library
  • Ayers Rock/Uluru
    • Ayers Rock as Sacred Place

Territoriality

• What Does The Land Mean?
• Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil, "Blubo")
  • Himmler and the SS: Blood and Soil (1937)
• Nationalism as Mythology
  • Polish Romanticism
  • Zionism
  • Other Nationalisms
• Regionalism as Mythology: Western Separatism: Western Canada Concept Party
• Place and Indigeneity

Psychological Approaches to Place

Does place make you who you are?

Winifred Gallagher, The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions. HarperPerennial, 1993

• Environmental Psychology
• Psychology and Place
• Place Psychology: Feng Shui
• Psychology and Color
  • Psychology and Color
  • Colors and Moods

Art, Place, and the Public

• Place(Making), Art, and Controversy
  • Place-Making Imagination
  • Folkvine
  • Richard Serra, Tilted Arc
  • Maya Lin, Vietnam War Memorial
  • Cristo and Jeanne-Claude
    • Running Fence
    • Wrapping the Reichstag
    • Pont Neuf Wrapped
    • Surrounded Islands
    • The Gates
  • Robert Smithson Earthworks
    • Spiral Jetty
  • Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, Hyde Park, London
  • Installation Art Sites
  • Keith Harder's Site
  • Art in Public Spaces: Creating Memory and Community by Design
  • Space and Place

Virtual Place

• Virtual Places
  • $.23 Stories
  • Folkvine
    
    
• The Virtual As Place
  • Spaceless.com
    
    
• Representations of the Virtual as Place and Space
  • An Atlas of Cyberspace

Imaginary Places

• Ambigutopia
• Bergonia
  • Links to Other Imaginary Places
• Definitions of Utopia
• Utopian Links
• Geographies of Fantasy
• Imaginary Places

Globalization & Glocalization

• Some Definitions of Globalization
• Globalization: Threat or Opportunity (IMF document)
• The Globalization Page
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• WTOWatch

Anti-Globalization

• Adbusters
• McSpotlight - A site on the "McDonaldization" of the world
• NoLogo.org - an organization that sprang from Naomi Klein's book, No Logo