Landscape Citizenships: Ecological, Watershed and Bioregional Citizenships

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Landscape Citizenships, featuring work by academics from North America, Europe, and the Middle East, extends the growing body of thought and research in landscape democracy and landscape justice. Landscape, as a milieu of situated everyday practice in which people make places and places make people in an inextricable relation, is proving a powerful concept for conceiving of politics and citizenships as lived, dialogic, and emplaced. Grounded in discourses of ecological, environmental, watershed, and bioregional citizenships, this edited collection evaluates belonging through the idea of landscape as landship which describes substantive, mutually constitutive relations between people and place. With a strong international focus across 14 chapters, it delves into key topics such as marginalization, indigeneity, globalization, politics, and the environment, before finishing with an epilogue written by Kenneth R. Olwig. This volume will appeal to scholars and activists working in citizenship studies, migration, landscape studies, landscape architecture, ecocriticism, and the many disciplines which converge around these topics, from design to geography, anthropology, politics, and much more. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Landships Bibliography 1 Landscape Citizenships: A Conversation Among Treaty People Notes Bibliography 2 Unearthing Citizenships in Waste Landscapes Waste, Disgust, and Distancing Involuntary Citizenships in Toxic Waste Landscapes The Love Canal and Superfund The Radioactive Bridgeton-West Lake Superfund Landfill Waste Landships As Distributed Networks: New York City’s ‘Poop Train’ Wastelands As Commons Waste Landscape As Commons—the Leslie Street Spit From Commons to Commodity: the Blue Lagoon7 Cultivating Voluntary Citizenships of Waste Landscapes Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography 3 Narrating Landscape Citizenship On the Coast: Conflicting Views From the Bulgarian Black sea and Yorkshire North Sea Shores Abstract Or Enacted Landscapes and Citizenships Tension One: Inheriting the Coast and the Temporality of Citizenship Tension Two: Spatial Dimensions of Belonging and Landscape Citizenship Conclusion Bibliography 4 Superkilen: Coloniality, Citizenship, and Border Politics Centring Border Theory in Public Space Design Research Coloniality, Citizenship, and Border Politics in Denmark Nørrebro As Borderland Superkilen Emerging As a Soft-War Border Technology Conclusions Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography 5 Avuncular Architectures: Queer Futurity and Life Economies Introduction: Spinster Ecology Part 1: Athwartness No Future Part 2: Mon Oncle From Harlow to Hulot Mon Oncle From Hulot to Harlow Part 3: Life Insurgent Avuncular Architectures Notes Bibliography 6 Situating Landscape Citizenships: Borders, Margins, Hybridity, and the Uncanny Hybridity and Thirdspace: Blurring Boundaries and articulating Differences On Edge and On the Edge: Liminality, the Strange(r), and the Uncanny A Stranger in One’s Own Land …: Life in Liquid Modernity and Liquid Fear Belongings, Rights, and Obligations—the Case of (and for) Landscape Democracy Right to Narrative and the Role of Language Stories, Histories, and Methodologies—a Sidebar On Identity, Authority, and Authorship In Lieu of a Conclusion: Being at Home in the Uncanny Notes Bibliography 7 Border Crossing: Landscapes of Mestizaje, Citizenship, and Translation A Hybrid Citizen? The Dialectics of Borderlands Mending the Broken Vessel Citizenship at the Permeable Borders Liberating Borderlands Central European Borderlands Borderland Monsters Borderlands Archived? Acknowledgements Bibliography 8 Spatial Inequalities and Marginalization: Displaced Syrians in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Introduction Citizenship and Right to Landscape Spatial Inequality and Marginalization The Borderscape Condition of Displaced Syrian communities in Lebanon Syrians Displaced in Lebanon Syrians in the Bekaa Valley Method and Case Study Informal Tented Settlements in the Bekaa Valley Saadnayel and Bar Elias, Zahle District Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography 9 Disaster Volunteers: The Constructed Identity of Disaster Aid Workers and Their Place in the Affected Community Prologue Introduction Disaster Volunteers Tourism Voluntourism Disaster Tourism and Thanatourism Research On Disaster Volunteers Methods My Experiences Findings Event Identity Volunteer Identity Organization Identity Conclusion Bibliography 10 Beirut’s Public Realm and the Discourse of Landscape Citizenships Introduction Landscape, Citizenship and the Public Realm The Emergence of Public Realm Landscapes The Corporate Landscape Narrative of the Public Realm The Activist Landscape of the Public Realm Protesting Closure of the Beirut’s Pine Forest The Civic Campaign for the Protection of the Dalieh of Raouche Reclaiming the Public Realm Conclusion Notes Bibliography 11 Working With Uncertainties: Living With Masterplanning at Elephant and Castle Introduction Development Uncertainties Incomplete Mapping Breaking, Making, Belonging Conclusions Notes Bibliography 12 Legacies of Violence: Citizenship and Sovereignty On Contested Lands The Role of Land in the Formation of Nations From Sovereign to Savage: Racial Difference As Tool to Erode Sovereignty Assaulting Sovereignty Through Seizing Land: Systems of private Property Laws and Consequences Land Ordinance Act of 1785 Indian Removal Act, 1830 Homestead Act, 1862 | Desert Land Act, 1877 General Allotment Act (dawes Severalty Act), 1887 Curtis Act, 1898 Indian Citizenship Act, 1924 Indian Reorganization Act, 1934 House Concurrent Resolution 108, 1953 Indian Civil Rights Act, 1968 Counter-Narrating History for An Anti-Colonial Future Policies, in Chronological Order Notes Bibliography 13 The Common Line Project: Lines, Landscapes, and Digital Citizenships Prologue Introduction The Common Line: Genesis, Determination, and Evolution Lines, Landscapes, and The Common Line Citizenship: Commoning Digital Systems? Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography 14 Wondering Through the Looking Glass, and Back Out of the ‘Box’?: A Meta-Epilogue The ‘Box’ The Euclidean Space of the Map As Boxed Chessboard The Perspectival Wonderspace of Scenic Landscape The Constitutional Perspective of the State Out of the ‘Box’ Boxed in and Out Borders and Lines Subverting the Box From Within Questions Raised By the ‘Box’ Notes Bibliography Index