Cultural geography and the stories we tell ourselves

Price, Patricia L.

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“…In this paper, I draw on ideas relating to the telling and hearing of stories, acknowledging the important role stories have in the creation of knowledge. There is considerable literature on the role of stories and storytelling as a means of creating and communicating a shared identity or sense of belonging (see for example Cruikshank, ; Valdes, ; Huff, ; Cameron, , ; Price, ; Houston, ). Cameron, who focuses on the ways in which stories help create Arctic geographies, reminds her readers that, ‘… knowledge is narratively constructed, and that stories do not stand outside the workings of knowledge and power but instead are crucial sites through which knowledge is conveyed and naturalized’ (Cameron, : 217).…”

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Making connections: Hearing and sharing Macassan-Yolηu stories

Bilous

2015

Asia Pac Viewp

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Yolŋu people living in northeast Arnhem Land regularly celebrate their connections with the Macassan trepangers from Indonesian Sulawesi in storytelling, art and music. The history of this contact is well known in academic literature, and these stories of Macassan contact are told regularly by Yolŋu people to tourists visiting northeast Arnhem Land. This paper explores the impact that hearing stories about the Macassans from one Yolŋu family's tourism business had on a group of Australian Indonesian language teachers, visiting as part of an Endeavour Language Teaching Fellowship. It draws on ideas related to telling and hearing stories and argues that these particular stories enabled the teachers to make powerful connections: with each other and with Australia's histories and geographies. The paper also explores the ways in which the teachers went on to become storytellers themselves, using stories to make connections in their students' learning.

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Section: Stories and Storytellingmentioning

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Making connections: Hearing and sharing Macassan-Yolηu stories

Bilous

2015

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“…DeSilvey's proposal to consider “other ways of making sense of transience, looking to the role that narrative plays in our apprehension of landscape pasts and futures” (, 33) can be adapted for broader purposes, too, as she herself has taken inspiration from Patricia Price's suggestion that “cultural geographers can extend a narrative approach to examination of, as well as active participation in, the work that stories do” (Price , 207). DeSilvey's experimental narrative is interspersed with anecdotes of her own, snippets of memories from visits she's made to the place.…”

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The Art of Writing Place

Ward

2014

Geography Compass

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This paper provides an overview of recent work by academic geographers who use creative approaches to writing, both structurally and linguistically, to explore and advance themes relating to space and place. It places this work in the context of other contemporary engagements with creative practices in cultural geography and sets out some of the possibilities for, as well as the challenges associated with, a "creative-critical" approach to writing geography. It outlines several ways in which this approach can help cultural geographers engage with certain ideas about place through a focus on three particular themes: (1) the idea of place as something f luid and always-becoming; (2) the relationship between the body and place; and (3) the spatiality of text.

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“…By placing my own footprint in the Trenoweth sludge, I imagine some of the tactilities and properties of granite sludge that might resonate four thousand years into the future of the emplaced sediments. This exploration of granite's evolution unfolds through an experimental narrative that uses the granite's past to try to understand its potential future, working through a research method that understands story as an active tool for analysis and understanding (Price, 2010 Granite is valued as a building stone for its properties of hardness, durability and flexural strength, and for its relatively uniform structure (Hunt 2005), but the character and composition of granite can vary widely. People employed at Trenoweth Quarry have their own vernacular lexicon that situates the personality of each type of granite within a hierarchy according to its salient properties and its relative ease of working.…”

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The Quarry as Sculpture: The Place of Making

Paton

2013

Environ Plan A

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Practices of sculpture and geography have collaborated ever since Stone Age humans hoisted up rocks to point them into the air. The ephemerality of life was rendered in a circle of forms and mass that celebrated the union of sky, earth and dwelling. Through the manipulation of stone, the land became a place, it became a home, it became situated and navigable. As millennia unfolded, the land was written with the story of itself. The creativity woven into the story of place is an evolution of material viii I would like to express a special gratitude to my close friend Rose Ferraby, someone with whom I have been able to share a deep respect for stone and quarrying during our time as PhD researchers. I thank Rose for the many chats over the phone, for her humour, creativity, rigour and energy. I would also like to acknowledge the friendship, support and spirit of collaboration provided by Jane Bailey, Natalia Eernstman, Alyson Hallett and Andy Whall, during our shared experiences of carrying out PhDs.

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Cultural geography and the stories we tell ourselves

Cited by 61 publications

References 11 publications

Making connections: Hearing and sharing Macassan-Yolηu stories

Making connections: Hearing and sharing Macassan-Yolηu stories

The Art of Writing Place

The Quarry as Sculpture: The Place of Making

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