Transcript Landscape as human experience and object of science

Landscape as human experience
and object of science
Introduction to
Landscape sociology
Landscape(s) sociology
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Landscape Sociology focuses on the interaction of
society and environment on a landscape scale.
Ecological…
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Landscape Sociology is the study of people in the
non-urban landscape, including the urban fringe,
regional towns and service centers.
Sociological…
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Landscape Sociology fosuses on protection and
improvement of natural and urban landscape.
Environmental…
Land/scape as…
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Meaning…basic definition
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Model…..quantitative application of meanings
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Methaphor…imagination in other
consequences
Landscape sociology or Landscapes?
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Examples from Melbourne School of Land and Environment
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Landscape is a vernacular scene, the product of everyday practice.
Landscape sociologists believe that the landscape is not neutral but
constructed, and that from this theoretical position research is possible to
understand the social practices that have contributed to how the landscape
is now and how it might be different in the future.
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Water in the Landscape Project
This research uses landscape and ideas from complex theory as the underlying
context to explore these issues.
Landscape provides a framework for understanding not just the physical
aspects of environment, but also how it is understood as a whole:
the history, the patterns of land use, and the values and beliefs of those
constructing the landscape.
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In this way we use the metaphor of landscape to connect the ecosystem
with the daily activities
Landscape Sociology - examples
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Landscape is a useful metaphor for considering the meaning and
importance of a location, in particular associated with local food
production
Leland L. Glenna
department of rural sociology at the University of MissouriColumbia “Rationality, habitus, and agricultural landscapes:
Ethnographic case studies in landscape sociology”
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To explain how agricultural landscapes become social constructions of
the natural environment, this essay utilizes Jurgen Habermas's
concept of rationality and Pierre Bourdieu's constructs of field and
habitus to examine how social relationships shape the way three
farmers perceive, alter, and evaluate their land.
Landscape Sociology
(example of Greek)
• Study of……Social
responsibilities of enterprises'
members for protection and
improvement of natural and
urban landscapes. Social
criteria for valuation, protection
and improvement of landscape
quality. Landscape- habitants,
visitors and employees.
Relations and perspectives of
landscape and society.
Landscape Sociology at the
beginning
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expectations:
Action, practical using, criteria,
human demands
anthropocentric
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understanding, phenomenon,
nature – culture continuum
eco-centric
Landscape Sociology at the
beginning
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Practical changes, development, creation,
landscaping
Conservation, landscape protection, elimination
De/construction of cultural landscape concept,
meanings, definition, self-organization,
understanding