2013 Call For Papers
53rd Annual Conference of the Western History Association
9-12 October 2013, Tucson, Arizona
VITAL SIGNS: EARTH, POWER, LIVES
No region of the world has been more important than the West of North America in encouraging historians to take an environmental perspective on the past. Today that perspective has become global in scale and significance, and it is time to bring it back home for reassessing ourselves. The 2013 program committee invites proposals on the theme of checking the “vital signs,” those indicators of health and illness that societies as well as individuals need. They include such measures of well being as energy supplies and consumption, ecological and cultural diversity, the distribution of wealth and power, the ups and downs of climate, and the resilience of ecosystems and human communities.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The vagabond's wayward travels meant that he always had traces of elsewhere about him which disturbed those who had chosen a settled and rooted existence - the vagabond threatened to undo the comforts of place and transgressed the expectations of a sedentarist metaphysics.
Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
on phallocracy and wookies
The arrogant verticality of skyscrapers, and especially of public and state buildings, introduces a phallic or more precisely a phallocratic element into the visual realm; the purpose of this display, of this need to impress, is to convey an impression of authority to each spectator. Verticality and great height have ever been the spatial expression of potentially violent power.
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2009, p 98
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