David G. Havlick
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226547541
- eISBN:
- 9780226547688
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226547688.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
In recent decades, hundreds of millions of acres of militarized landscapes around the world have transitioned to new purposes of wildlife conservation. These land use changes offer valuable ...
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In recent decades, hundreds of millions of acres of militarized landscapes around the world have transitioned to new purposes of wildlife conservation. These land use changes offer valuable opportunities for new approaches to environmental protection, but also carry cautionary lessons about military impacts, historical erasure, and how to guide ecological restoration in landscapes with complex cultural and natural histories. This book examines a number of these sites, ranging from relatively unknown wildlife refuges in the United States to internationally-renowned areas such as the Iron Curtain borderlands of Europe and the Demilitarized Zone of the Korean Peninsula. These emerging sites of conservation must accomplish seemingly antithetical aims: rebuilding and protecting ecosystems, or restoring life, while also commemorating the historical and cultural legacies of warfare and militarization. The book examines how military activities, conservation goals, and ecological restoration efforts come together - at times disconcertingly - to create new kinds of places and foster new kinds of relationships between humans and the environment.Less
In recent decades, hundreds of millions of acres of militarized landscapes around the world have transitioned to new purposes of wildlife conservation. These land use changes offer valuable opportunities for new approaches to environmental protection, but also carry cautionary lessons about military impacts, historical erasure, and how to guide ecological restoration in landscapes with complex cultural and natural histories. This book examines a number of these sites, ranging from relatively unknown wildlife refuges in the United States to internationally-renowned areas such as the Iron Curtain borderlands of Europe and the Demilitarized Zone of the Korean Peninsula. These emerging sites of conservation must accomplish seemingly antithetical aims: rebuilding and protecting ecosystems, or restoring life, while also commemorating the historical and cultural legacies of warfare and militarization. The book examines how military activities, conservation goals, and ecological restoration efforts come together - at times disconcertingly - to create new kinds of places and foster new kinds of relationships between humans and the environment.
Andrew B. Kipnis
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520289703
- eISBN:
- 9780520964273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520289703.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the phantasmagoria, the imaginary experience of shifting images of Zouping as a place, especially as experienced when walking the streets of the city. It examines how public ...
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This chapter explores the phantasmagoria, the imaginary experience of shifting images of Zouping as a place, especially as experienced when walking the streets of the city. It examines how public space is used, the introduction and growth of advertising and its associated sexual imagery, and the way in which the government manipulates the experience of public space through its control of landmarks and religious buildings and through its staging of public spectacles. Particular attention is paid to the historical erasure of religious landmarks, the ways in which a discourse of romanticism informs advertising, and the ways in which advertising, an urban environment, the end of arranged marriage, and the extension of youth create conditions for a sexual modernity.Less
This chapter explores the phantasmagoria, the imaginary experience of shifting images of Zouping as a place, especially as experienced when walking the streets of the city. It examines how public space is used, the introduction and growth of advertising and its associated sexual imagery, and the way in which the government manipulates the experience of public space through its control of landmarks and religious buildings and through its staging of public spectacles. Particular attention is paid to the historical erasure of religious landmarks, the ways in which a discourse of romanticism informs advertising, and the ways in which advertising, an urban environment, the end of arranged marriage, and the extension of youth create conditions for a sexual modernity.
