Constructing landscapes of power: the George Etienne Cartier monument, Montreal

Osborne, Brian S.

doi:10.1006/jhge.1998.0090

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“…The issue of representation power of the landscape is related to the rights of speech in representation, and the authenticity of place making [25]. Some of the aims of new cultural geography in studying landscapes are to observe the social and political processes of a place through the landscape [26], emphasize the representation and reproduction of landscape through text analysis, and also be aware of the power of narration in the reproduction process [27].…”

Section: Text Representation and Place Makingmentioning

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Interpretation of 798: Changes in Power of Representation and Sustainability of Industrial Landscape

2015

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Against the background of economic transformation and urban renewal, the protection and sustainable development of urban industrial landscapes has become an important practical issue, and how to maintain the unique local culture of these landscapes is key to solving the problem. By integrating the concept of "layer" and regarding the landscape as text, this paper will investigate the representation of industrial landscapes and the process of changes in power represented by different actors through different texts from the perspective of representation. The paper selected Beijing 798 as the research area to explore the shaping of changes in the industrial landscape of 798 from a weapon manufacturing area to an arts district, creative industry park and the "pan 798" by the factory owners, government, management committee, artists, media and tourists through different presentation forms, revealing the game process of representation of powers among the coalition between artists, management committee and the government. The paper points out that in fact, the representation of industrial landscape by different actors through different texts is a process that continues to explore and define the value of landscape. However, we need to look at this when the value of the industrial landscape is no longer given by localized life practices, but rather depends on different actors to produce and reproduce the value of landscape by representation, and thereby affecting the sustainable development of industrial landscape.

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Section: Text Representation and Place Makingmentioning

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Interpretation of 798: Changes in Power of Representation and Sustainability of Industrial Landscape

2015

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“…For example, it is argued that nation states develop an official memory that is created by those who seek social unity, loyalty and the continuity of particular institutions. Past events are therefore continually reconstructed in the context of the present (Osborne 1998). The celebration of historically significant dates, people and locations seeks to authenticate and legitimise the actions of the state by exemplifying past deeds and achievements.…”

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Marketplace metaphors: communicating authenticity through visual imagery

Freathy

Thomas

2014

Consumption Markets & Culture

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While the concept of authenticity is commonly linked to the market exchange process, it also assists in the pursuit of political, social and economic objectives. Authenticity provides a legitimating function that serves the needs of specific groups and individuals. Establishing authenticity remains culturally and contextually dependent and requires an understanding of prevailing power relationships and historical events. This is demonstrated by reference to a series of sixteenth and seventeenth century images of retailing and the marketplace. Using iconological interpretive techniques, the paper identifies how works of art served a propagandist role designed to influence and modify public opinion. Developments in both production and consumption led to a commodification of artistic works and afforded a means of communication that both challenged and empowered established institutions. The paper highlights the contemporary significance of these findings and suggests that modern marketing imagery may seek to authenticate socio-political as well as economic meaning.

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“…After World War I, however, monumental statuary became diagnostic of totalitarian dictatorships concerned with communicating "the face of power" in vulgar displays, bombastic architecture, and overwrought heroic monumentalism (Hobsbawm, 1995;Osborne, 1998a). Elsewhere, the very human face of suffering in the name of nationalism in World War I had much to do with the demise of monumental patriotism.…”

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“…It has been argued that the growing allure of commercialized spectacle and public entertainment in the domain of cinema, popular music, and sports weakened the attraction of public pageantry (Rudin, 2003). However, nationalizing-states-especially such totalitarian states as fascist Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Germany, and the Soviet USSR -continued to use existing or newly planned "space-containers" as sites for public ceremonies, public entertainment, and public participation in choreographed performances: labour demonstrations; military displays; staged spectacles (Ades, Benton, Elliott, & Whyte, 1995;Osborne, 1998a;Taylor, 1974). Even modern liberal-democratic states continue to make use of orchestrated displays of coronations, weddings, funerals, sports events, and celebratory performances to attract nationwide participation (Dabrowski, 2004;Hobsbawm, 1995;Nelles, 1999;Osborne, 1998b;Osborne & Osborne, 2004;Peer, 1998;Spillman, 1997).…”

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From Native Pines to Diasporic Geese: Placing Culture, Setting Our Sites, Locating Identity in a Transnational Canada

Osborne

2006

Canadian Journal of Communication

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In Canada, as elsewhere, introspective and nostalgic views of community and nation-state are being challenged by the impacts of globalism and cosmopolitanism. The impact of these transformations is acute in the context of Canada, where a liberal multiculturalism is transmuting into a hybrid pluralism. Current strategies of identity formation have to accommodate a hybridity that is being fostered by an ever-increasing diasporic population for whom "lived-in places" exhibit transnationalist connections. Too often, established mnemonic tropes relate to past iconic values and norms of the nation-state, even though they are no longer connected with emerging new values that search for new modes of expression. This paper discusses the crucial role of the arts and heritage in this local anchoring of the transnational polity, arguing that symbolic landscapes become sites where new values are contested and traditional iconic values are challenged.Résumé : Içi, comme ailleurs, des représentations introspectives et nostalgiques de communauté et d'État sont remises en question suite à l'impacte des effets de la mondialisation et du cosmopolitisme. La conséquence de ces transformations est fortement marquée dans un contexte canadien où un certain multiculturalisme libéral est en voie de se transformer en pluralisme hybride. Les stratégies courantes de création d'identité doivent accommoder une hybridité stimulée par une population diasporique grandissante chez qui le lieu d'habitation présente un contenu trans-nationaliste. Il se trouve trop souvent que des tropes mnémoniques préétablis s'apparentent à des valeurs iconiques traditionnelles et à des normes de l'État, même quand ils ne sont plus rattachés aux valeurs émergentes qui cherchent à élaborer de nouveaux modes d'expression. Cette communication examine le rôle critique des arts et du patrimoine vis-à-vis l'insertion au niveau local de l'entité transnationale. Il propose que les paysages symboliques deviennent des sites où de nouvelles valeurs sont contestées et où les valeurs ioniques traditionnelles sont remises au défi.

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Constructing landscapes of power: the George Etienne Cartier monument, Montreal

Cited by 60 publications

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Interpretation of 798: Changes in Power of Representation and Sustainability of Industrial Landscape

Interpretation of 798: Changes in Power of Representation and Sustainability of Industrial Landscape

Marketplace metaphors: communicating authenticity through visual imagery

From Native Pines to Diasporic Geese: Placing Culture, Setting Our Sites, Locating Identity in a Transnational Canada

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