Culture Nature Landscape Spring 2005 Valparaiso University

This is a tentative course schedule. There are probably too many readings here. Some will be declared optional and substitutions may be made throughout the semester. Check the online course schedule for the latest.

Date	Theme	Readings	Assignments	Reflection Paper
R Jan 6	Introduction	None
Politics of Cultural Geography
T Jan 11	New and Old Geographies	Lewis Axioms, Cosgrove Geog. is Everywhere		Doverspike
R Jan 13	Foundational Concepts	Lippard Acknowledgements and Chapter 1		Lutz
T Jan 18	Old Cultural Geog	Mitchell Preface, Chapter 1.		Lewke
R Jan 20	Old Cultural Geog	Sauer Morphology		Dickmeyer
T Jan 25	New Cultural Geog	Mitchell Chapter 2		Osthus
R Jan 27	New Cultural Geog	Mitchell Chapter 3		Aho
T Feb 1	What is nature?	Kirby and Katz, Katz, Light, M.	Research Site and Topic Proposal	Brooks
The Politics of Nature
R Feb 3	Culture of Nature	Davis Intro & Chapter 1		Topingrud
T Feb 8	Doing Research	None-Visit to Library
R Feb 10	Video: The Persuaders
T Feb 15	Culture of Nature	Davis Chapters 2-4		Moritz
Landscape
R Feb 17	Culture of nature	Davis Chapters 5-6	Critical Review of Mitchell/Davis
T Feb 22	Nature and Landscape	Mels Nature, Home…		Reynolds
R Feb 24	The work of Landscape	Mitchell Chap. 4, (Optional for undgd: Harvey, Anderson)	Bibliography of sources	Peters
Feb 26-March 13 Spring Break				-
T Mar 15	Power and Landscape	Cosgrove Social Formation and Prospect, perspective…		Aho
R Mar 17	The Local	Lippard Part I		Lutz
T Mar 22	Memory/Land Use	Lippard Part II and III		Doverspike
R Mar 24	The City/The Public	Lippard Part IV and V Mitchell Lure of Local	Thesis statement and abstract for project.	Dickmeyer
T Mar 29	Landscape and regulation	Mitchell Chapter 5		Lewke
The Political Landscape
R Mar31	Malling of America	Goss Magic of Mall, Mall of America	Critical Review of Lippard	Moriz
T April 5	AAG No Class	Work on your paper
R April 7	AAG No Class	Work on your paper
Cultural Politics
T April 12	Spectacle	Mitchell Chapter 6		Brooks
R April 14	Sex and Sexuality	Mitchell 7	Draft of paper
T April 19	Gender	Mitchell 8		Osthus
R April 21	Race	Mitchell 9		Tolpingrud
Sat/Sun April 23/24 Field Trip?
T April 26	Nation	Mitchell 10, Kinsman		Reynolds
R April 28	Conclusion	Mitchell 11		Peters
T May 3	Project Presentations	Project Presentations—if necessary	Research Paper (Annotated Bib. for Graduate)
R May 5	No Class
Fri May 9	Final Exam 10:30-12:30	Project Presentations—if necessary	Reading Journal Portfolios Due

Anderson, Kay. 1987. The idea of Chinatown: the power of place and institutional practice in the making of a racial category. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77:580-598. Online version

Cosgrove, Denis. 1989. Geography is everywhere: culture and symbolism in human landscapes. In Derek Gregory and Rex Walford (eds.), Horizons in Human Geography, Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 118-135.

Cosgrove, Denis. 1985. Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (NS) 10: 45-62. Available http://www.rgs.org/trans/85101/85101003.pdf

Cosgrove, Denis E.. 1984. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. London: Croom Helm.

Goss, Jon. 1993. The "Magic of the Mall": an analysis of form, function, and meaning in the contemporary retail built environment. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 83:18-47. Online version

Goss, Jon. 1999. Once-upon-a-time in the commodity world: an unofficial guide to Mall of America. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89:45-75. Online version

Harvey, David. 1985. Monument and myth: the building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart." In Consciousness and the Urban Experience. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 221-249.

Katz, Cindi and Andrew Kirby. 1991. In the nature of things: the environment and everyday life. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 16.00:259-271. Available http://www.rgs.org/trans/91163/91163001.pdf

Kinsman, Phil. 1995. Landscape, race and national identity: the photography of Ingrid Pollard. Area 27:300-310.

Kirsh, Scott. 1997. Watching the bombs go off: photography, nuclear landscapes, and spectator democracy. Antipode, 29:227-255.

Lewis, Peirce. Axioms for reading the landscape: some guides to the American scene. In D. Meining editor, Interpreting Ordinary Landscapes: Geographic Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-32.

Mels, Tom. 2002. Nature, home, and scenery: the official spatialities of Swedish National Parks. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20:135-154.

Mitchell, Don. 2001. The lure of the local: landscape studies at the end of a troubled century. Progress in Human Geography 25:269-281. Online version

Sauer, Carl. The morphology of landscape. In J. Leighly, editor, Land and Life: a Selection From the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 315-350.

Cronin, William. 1995. The trouble with wilderness; or, getting back to the wrong nature. In Uncommon Ground: Toward Redefining Nature, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 69-90.

Duncan, James. 1990. The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Duncan, James S. and Duncan, Nancy. 1988. (Re)reading the landscape. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 6.00:117-126.

Jackson, Peter. 1989. Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography. London:Unwin Hyman.

Jackson, Peter. 1988. Street life: the politics of Carnival. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 6.00:213-227.

Ley, David and Olds, K.. 1988. Landscape as spectacle: world's fairs and the culture of heroic consumption. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 6.00:191-212.