Embodying Landscape: Spatial Narratives of Becoming-Artist on the Islands of the Salish Sea

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dc.contributor.authorJackson, Jolene
dc.contributor.supervisorRose-Redwood, Reuben Skye
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-20T22:24:42Z
dc.date.available2014-01-20T22:24:42Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-01-20
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Geographyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractRecent literature in cultural geography has turned its attention to the enactment of landscape through performance. Drawing upon the insights of new cultural geography and non-representational theory, this thesis examines the performative enactments of “place” through the production of landscape representations on the Islands of the Salish Sea. In particular, I adopt a narrative approach to consider how the embodied and discursive performances of becoming-artist and the enactment of landscape are co-constituted. Through a comparative case study of four Islands in the Salish Sea – San Juan, Lopez, Salt Spring, and Pender Islands – the current study provides an embodied account of the practices of landscape representation based upon fieldwork, participant observation, and 13 semi-structured interviews with landscape artists on the Islands. This is followed by a thematic analysis of recurring imagery in landscape paintings with a focus on representations of the rural scene, property relations, nationalism, and “unpeopled” landscapes. I conclude that landscape representations are both discursive and experiential in their performative enactments of place.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0366en_US
dc.description.proquestemailjolenejackson12@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5167
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectnon-representational theoryen_US
dc.subjectnew cultural geographyen_US
dc.subjectSalish Seaen_US
dc.subjectlandscapeen_US
dc.subjectrepresentationen_US
dc.subjectperformativityen_US
dc.subjectnarrativeen_US
dc.titleEmbodying Landscape: Spatial Narratives of Becoming-Artist on the Islands of the Salish Seaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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