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Tourism Geographies, 2013
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Professional Geographer, 2000
Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of th... more Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s have desegregated America's memorial landscape. Tracing a broad arc across the US South, the material elements of this landscape — historic markers, monuments, parks, registered buildings, and museums — present a distinct challenge to representations of an elite, white American past.
Social & Cultural Geography, 2004
Controversy has erupted in Selma, Alabama, over recent efforts to commemorate the career of Natha... more Controversy has erupted in Selma, Alabama, over recent efforts to commemorate the career of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry officer and founding member of the original Ku Klux Klan. More generally, the controversy in Selma is emblematic of an enduring regional pattern in which contests over the future are couched in terms of the past. Relative to other media,
Professional Geographer, 2000
Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of th... more Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s have desegregated America's memorial landscape. Tracing a broad arc across the US South, the material elements of this landscape — historic markers, monuments, parks, registered buildings, and museums — present a distinct challenge to representations of an elite, white American past.
Indiana Magazine of History, 2014
WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, 2004
The past remains a passionately contested terrain in the American South. On the one hand, the mem... more The past remains a passionately contested terrain in the American South. On the one hand, the memory of the Civil War is of vital importance in the region. Many white Southerners identify with romanticized images of the Confederacy (Hoelscher 2003). Alternately, a new historical vision of the region's past has emerged, one that challenges the centrality of the Confederacy. Propelled largely by African Americans, this challenge is embodied in the public commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement (Alderman 2000; Dwyer 2000). The ...
... My father's parents, Jakob Till and Anna Kemp, both born in 1899 in what... more ... My father's parents, Jakob Till and Anna Kemp, both born in 1899 in what is now ... Dydia DeLyser argues that one reason people make and go to ghost towns is because they can ... Euclidean science tells us moderns that no two things can be simultaneously in the same location ...
ABSTRACT New approaches to cultural landscape have encouraged a widened range of encounters with ... more ABSTRACT New approaches to cultural landscape have encouraged a widened range of encounters with the relationship between memory and landscape. At the same time, changing pedagogical approaches moving from an instructional to a learner-centered paradigm have emphasized hands-on, authentic assessment and inquiry-led, project-based learning. In this paper we reflect on two exercises that we have developed in our very different settings to respond to these trends in landscape and learning. In one case, students in a first-year seminar created, shared, analyzed and reflected on childhood landscape maps, engaging multisensory registers of memory and adopting a particularly agential perspective on the exercise and the making of memory. In the second case, an upper-level seminar explored disciplinary traditions and techniques in the context of a hands-on geocaching exercise aimed at everyday memorial making. Together, these exercises suggest the potential for learner-centered pedagogies and a widened range of approaches to memory and landscape to animate our classrooms. Nuevos enfoques hacia el paisaje cultural han fomentado una amplia gama de encuentros con la relación entre la memoria y el paisaje. Al mismo tiempo, el cambio de enfoques pedagógicos desde un paradigma de instrucción a uno centrado en el alumno ha enfatizado un aprendizaje práctico, de evaluación y dirigido a la investigación, y basado en proyectos. En este artículo reflexionamos sobre dos ejercicios que hemos desarrollado en nuestros marcadamente diferentes entornos para responder a estas tendencias en el paisaje y el aprendizaje. En un caso, estudiantes en un seminario de primer año, crearon, compartieron, analizaron y reflexionaron sobre mapas de paisajes de la infancia, atendiendo registros de memoria multisensoriales y adoptando una particular perspectiva agencial sobre el ejercicio y la elaboración de la memoria. En el segundo caso, un seminario de alto nivel exploró las tradiciones disciplinarias y técnicas en el marco de un ejercicio práctico de “geocaching” dirigido a la construcción de la memoria del diario vivir. En conjunto, estos ejercicios sugieren el potencial de las pedagogías centradas en el alumno y de una ampliada gama de enfoques para la memoria y el paisaje para animar nuestras aulas de clase.
Geographers have assessed the success and failure of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in terms of t... more Geographers have assessed the success and failure of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in terms of the African American struggle for justice, social identity, and economic survival. Conspicuously absent from the geographic literature are pedagogically oriented studies of the historical geography of the Civil Rights era. The Movement's popular image has congealed into a celebratory collection of names and dates, the sum of which is a vague, nearly mythic retelling that students might recognize but not necessarily care about. As a result, the Movement is at once contemptuously familiar yet bewilderingly strange for our students. This article offers a sympathetic critique of conventional Movement narratives, introducing the notion of empathetic pedagogy and presenting a case study of the Montgomery bus boycott. Our pedagogical approach stresses the role of empathy, both as a factor in shaping the actual sociospatial development of the Movement, as well as a strategy for encouraging students to appreciate the everyday courage and sacrifice that animated so many of its participants. Our study brings together two burgeoning literatures that have the potential to cultivate empathy among students: the critical reevaluation of mobility and explorations of subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective. Here mobility is understood in both its literal and figurative sense: in the case of the bus boycott, the intricate network established to literally move African Americans around the city, as well as the figurative movement of sympathy and solidarity that "moved" people to support their efforts and now informs popular, selective understandings of the protest.
Southeastern Geographer, 2001
ABSTRACT Dr. Dwyer is Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University-Purdue University at... more ABSTRACT Dr. Dwyer is Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140. E-mail: odwyer@iupui.edu. Ms. Gilmartin is Lecturer, Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS, United Kingdom. E-mail: mary.Gilmartin@ntu.ac.uk. 1. This report could not have been written without the kind indulgence of the parishioners of St. Peter Claver, who patiently answered all of our questions. Interviews were conducted with the Chancellor of the Diocese of Lexington, current and former parish priests, the parish deacon and administrative assistant, current and former parishioners, and nuns who worked in the parish school. We also attended a number of parish events, including Mass and social gatherings. In the course of this research the following archives in Kentucky were consulted: Diocese of Covington (Erlanger), Diocese of Lexington (Lexington), Sisters of Divine Providence (Melbourne), Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (Nazareth), St. Peter Claver parish (Lexington), as well as St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart (Baltimore, MD). 2. St. Peter Claver, after whom the parish is named, was a Spanish priest who baptized slaves in the West Indies in the 17th century. 3. Information regarding the size of St. Peter Claver's congregation, in the absence of a single definitive source, has been culled from the following sources: Ryan (1954); St. Peter Claver Parish Directory; and St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart, Inc., Parish Annual Report by Year, 1907-1919. 4. The information for this section is derived primarily from interviews conducted by the authors. Citing "Church law," the archivist at the Diocese of Covington barred access to any documents created since 1961.
Mapping tourism, 2003
... In an effort to reposition the city as a progressive member of the New South, the firm ... it... more ... In an effort to reposition the city as a progressive member of the New South, the firm ... its major museums, the Movement is represented as having been won on the streets, from the ... bus boycott and was part of the committee that invited a young Martin Luther King Jr., newly arrived ...
myweb.ecu.edu
Plantation museums would appear to be natural sites in which to learn about the lives of enslaved... more Plantation museums would appear to be natural sites in which to learn about the lives of enslaved Africans and African-Americans in the United States. Yet, at the numerous restored plantations that dot the states of the former Confederacy, places with regal sounding ...
Social & Cultural Geography, 2000
Recent work by geographers concerned with the enduring presence of racism has called for an inter... more Recent work by geographers concerned with the enduring presence of racism has called for an interrogation of the privileges and contingencies of whiteness. Central to this project of denaturalizing White Identity has been the disclosure of its co-constitution with a host of social practices. Building on the work of critical theorists in the humanities and social sciences concerned with masculinist and post-colonial epistemologies, this paper outlines a socio-spatial epistemology of whiteness. Whiteness's central tenets are an essentialist and non-relational construction of space and identity that underwrite its claims to be realized independent of an Other. Spatially, this refusal manifests itself in the deployment of discursive categories associated with scales, boundaries and extensivity in ways that reify space into discrete, unrelated parcels. We discuss some of the implications of this non-relational construction of space and identity in the context of residential segregation and spatial mobility. The paper concludes by noting that historically and geographically speci c forms of whiteness have drawn upon a common socio-spatial framing and that further study in this eld will bene t anti-racist activism by disclosing the workings of racialization in numerous human geographic contexts.
Tourism Geographies, 2013
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Professional Geographer, 2000
Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of th... more Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s have desegregated America's memorial landscape. Tracing a broad arc across the US South, the material elements of this landscape — historic markers, monuments, parks, registered buildings, and museums — present a distinct challenge to representations of an elite, white American past.
Social & Cultural Geography, 2004
Controversy has erupted in Selma, Alabama, over recent efforts to commemorate the career of Natha... more Controversy has erupted in Selma, Alabama, over recent efforts to commemorate the career of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry officer and founding member of the original Ku Klux Klan. More generally, the controversy in Selma is emblematic of an enduring regional pattern in which contests over the future are couched in terms of the past. Relative to other media,
Professional Geographer, 2000
Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of th... more Produced over the past decade, monuments and museums dedicated to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s have desegregated America's memorial landscape. Tracing a broad arc across the US South, the material elements of this landscape — historic markers, monuments, parks, registered buildings, and museums — present a distinct challenge to representations of an elite, white American past.
Indiana Magazine of History, 2014
WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, 2004
The past remains a passionately contested terrain in the American South. On the one hand, the mem... more The past remains a passionately contested terrain in the American South. On the one hand, the memory of the Civil War is of vital importance in the region. Many white Southerners identify with romanticized images of the Confederacy (Hoelscher 2003). Alternately, a new historical vision of the region's past has emerged, one that challenges the centrality of the Confederacy. Propelled largely by African Americans, this challenge is embodied in the public commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement (Alderman 2000; Dwyer 2000). The ...
... My father's parents, Jakob Till and Anna Kemp, both born in 1899 in what... more ... My father's parents, Jakob Till and Anna Kemp, both born in 1899 in what is now ... Dydia DeLyser argues that one reason people make and go to ghost towns is because they can ... Euclidean science tells us moderns that no two things can be simultaneously in the same location ...
ABSTRACT New approaches to cultural landscape have encouraged a widened range of encounters with ... more ABSTRACT New approaches to cultural landscape have encouraged a widened range of encounters with the relationship between memory and landscape. At the same time, changing pedagogical approaches moving from an instructional to a learner-centered paradigm have emphasized hands-on, authentic assessment and inquiry-led, project-based learning. In this paper we reflect on two exercises that we have developed in our very different settings to respond to these trends in landscape and learning. In one case, students in a first-year seminar created, shared, analyzed and reflected on childhood landscape maps, engaging multisensory registers of memory and adopting a particularly agential perspective on the exercise and the making of memory. In the second case, an upper-level seminar explored disciplinary traditions and techniques in the context of a hands-on geocaching exercise aimed at everyday memorial making. Together, these exercises suggest the potential for learner-centered pedagogies and a widened range of approaches to memory and landscape to animate our classrooms. Nuevos enfoques hacia el paisaje cultural han fomentado una amplia gama de encuentros con la relación entre la memoria y el paisaje. Al mismo tiempo, el cambio de enfoques pedagógicos desde un paradigma de instrucción a uno centrado en el alumno ha enfatizado un aprendizaje práctico, de evaluación y dirigido a la investigación, y basado en proyectos. En este artículo reflexionamos sobre dos ejercicios que hemos desarrollado en nuestros marcadamente diferentes entornos para responder a estas tendencias en el paisaje y el aprendizaje. En un caso, estudiantes en un seminario de primer año, crearon, compartieron, analizaron y reflexionaron sobre mapas de paisajes de la infancia, atendiendo registros de memoria multisensoriales y adoptando una particular perspectiva agencial sobre el ejercicio y la elaboración de la memoria. En el segundo caso, un seminario de alto nivel exploró las tradiciones disciplinarias y técnicas en el marco de un ejercicio práctico de “geocaching” dirigido a la construcción de la memoria del diario vivir. En conjunto, estos ejercicios sugieren el potencial de las pedagogías centradas en el alumno y de una ampliada gama de enfoques para la memoria y el paisaje para animar nuestras aulas de clase.
Geographers have assessed the success and failure of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in terms of t... more Geographers have assessed the success and failure of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in terms of the African American struggle for justice, social identity, and economic survival. Conspicuously absent from the geographic literature are pedagogically oriented studies of the historical geography of the Civil Rights era. The Movement's popular image has congealed into a celebratory collection of names and dates, the sum of which is a vague, nearly mythic retelling that students might recognize but not necessarily care about. As a result, the Movement is at once contemptuously familiar yet bewilderingly strange for our students. This article offers a sympathetic critique of conventional Movement narratives, introducing the notion of empathetic pedagogy and presenting a case study of the Montgomery bus boycott. Our pedagogical approach stresses the role of empathy, both as a factor in shaping the actual sociospatial development of the Movement, as well as a strategy for encouraging students to appreciate the everyday courage and sacrifice that animated so many of its participants. Our study brings together two burgeoning literatures that have the potential to cultivate empathy among students: the critical reevaluation of mobility and explorations of subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective. Here mobility is understood in both its literal and figurative sense: in the case of the bus boycott, the intricate network established to literally move African Americans around the city, as well as the figurative movement of sympathy and solidarity that "moved" people to support their efforts and now informs popular, selective understandings of the protest.
Southeastern Geographer, 2001
ABSTRACT Dr. Dwyer is Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University-Purdue University at... more ABSTRACT Dr. Dwyer is Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140. E-mail: odwyer@iupui.edu. Ms. Gilmartin is Lecturer, Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS, United Kingdom. E-mail: mary.Gilmartin@ntu.ac.uk. 1. This report could not have been written without the kind indulgence of the parishioners of St. Peter Claver, who patiently answered all of our questions. Interviews were conducted with the Chancellor of the Diocese of Lexington, current and former parish priests, the parish deacon and administrative assistant, current and former parishioners, and nuns who worked in the parish school. We also attended a number of parish events, including Mass and social gatherings. In the course of this research the following archives in Kentucky were consulted: Diocese of Covington (Erlanger), Diocese of Lexington (Lexington), Sisters of Divine Providence (Melbourne), Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (Nazareth), St. Peter Claver parish (Lexington), as well as St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart (Baltimore, MD). 2. St. Peter Claver, after whom the parish is named, was a Spanish priest who baptized slaves in the West Indies in the 17th century. 3. Information regarding the size of St. Peter Claver's congregation, in the absence of a single definitive source, has been culled from the following sources: Ryan (1954); St. Peter Claver Parish Directory; and St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart, Inc., Parish Annual Report by Year, 1907-1919. 4. The information for this section is derived primarily from interviews conducted by the authors. Citing "Church law," the archivist at the Diocese of Covington barred access to any documents created since 1961.
Mapping tourism, 2003
... In an effort to reposition the city as a progressive member of the New South, the firm ... it... more ... In an effort to reposition the city as a progressive member of the New South, the firm ... its major museums, the Movement is represented as having been won on the streets, from the ... bus boycott and was part of the committee that invited a young Martin Luther King Jr., newly arrived ...
myweb.ecu.edu
Plantation museums would appear to be natural sites in which to learn about the lives of enslaved... more Plantation museums would appear to be natural sites in which to learn about the lives of enslaved Africans and African-Americans in the United States. Yet, at the numerous restored plantations that dot the states of the former Confederacy, places with regal sounding ...
Social & Cultural Geography, 2000
Recent work by geographers concerned with the enduring presence of racism has called for an inter... more Recent work by geographers concerned with the enduring presence of racism has called for an interrogation of the privileges and contingencies of whiteness. Central to this project of denaturalizing White Identity has been the disclosure of its co-constitution with a host of social practices. Building on the work of critical theorists in the humanities and social sciences concerned with masculinist and post-colonial epistemologies, this paper outlines a socio-spatial epistemology of whiteness. Whiteness's central tenets are an essentialist and non-relational construction of space and identity that underwrite its claims to be realized independent of an Other. Spatially, this refusal manifests itself in the deployment of discursive categories associated with scales, boundaries and extensivity in ways that reify space into discrete, unrelated parcels. We discuss some of the implications of this non-relational construction of space and identity in the context of residential segregation and spatial mobility. The paper concludes by noting that historically and geographically speci c forms of whiteness have drawn upon a common socio-spatial framing and that further study in this eld will bene t anti-racist activism by disclosing the workings of racialization in numerous human geographic contexts.