Atmospheres : Aesthetics of emotional spaces[Review]


Autoria(s): Mitchell, Peta
Data(s)

19/08/2015

Resumo

More problematic than his avoidance of recent geographic scholarship is his treatment of indigenous, ethnographic and postcolonial perspectives on island life. Not only is much of this scholarship absent, the bits that are there are mostly derided. He slams Kamau Braithwaite and his concept of ‘tidalectics’ as ‘unpackable’ (p. 20) and also claims that Greg Dening’s approach to islands as having ‘permeable cultural boundaries’ has ‘intellectual costs’ (p. 23). In a section of the book on ‘Naming and Sovereignty’, instead of an in-depth examination of the processes of decoding and recoding that goes on in indigenous island landscapes under colonialism (as could be discussed at length if Shell chose to examine Aotearoa, Hawaii, or hundreds of other places) we are instead presented a vignette about his childhood street fights with other kids over the naming of a hometown island in Canada, as well as ruminations about what Herman Melville and Ellen Semple thought of islands in the nineteenth century. In short, if you want to know what dead Caucasians like Shakespeare, Melville, Kant, Mackinder, More, and ancient Athenians thought about islands, then this book is a good resource. If, however, you are looking for information about what islands are like today – and what they mean to the people who live on and interact with them – then you will have to look elsewhere.

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/86712/

Publicador

Routledge

Relação

DOI:10.1080/14649365.2015.1072918

Mitchell, Peta (2015) Atmospheres : Aesthetics of emotional spaces[Review]. Social and Cultural Geography, 17(1), pp. 141-143.

Fonte

Digital Media Research Centre; Creative Industries Faculty; School of Media, Entertainment & Creative Arts

Palavras-Chave #160403 Social and Cultural Geography #220310 Phenomenology
Tipo

Review