Johan Pries
Biträdande universitetslektor
Lingering landscapes: an examination of the heterogeneous remains of welfare planning
Författare
Summary, in Swedish
This paper explores how landscape can be used as a lens to understand lingering as a geographical concept. Following the European Landscape Convention, landscape is defined as “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”. Thus, landscape assembles practices, perceptions and natural processes in an a-modern manner; this heterogeneity also affects its dynamics and ability to transcend the here and now of our activities. By studying the heritage of the landscape politics of the Swedish welfare society in the 1970s, we aim to illustrate how landscape and theories of landscape provides a richer understanding of lingering. This paper examines how the Swedish welfare planning of the 1970s lingers, not only in materialized structures and artefacts, but also in everyday practices and representations. The study focuses in particular on leisure planning, using examples from a Swedish town. This case is used to discuss how to understand lingering through landscape theory, how lingering actively is made by both presences of the past and attention to the past in the present by, for instance, maintenance and repair.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
Publiceringsår
2018-08-28
Språk
Svenska
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag: abstract
Ämne
- Social and Economic Geography
Conference name
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018
Conference date
2018-08-28 - 2018-08-31
Conference place
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Status
Published