Transoptic Landscape Analysis: Multidimensional Landscapes of a Multinational Wales

Abstract: In this article I propose a novel extension to landscape analysis through multidimensional understandings, including—yet reaching beyond—tangible and into more-than-representational understandings of landscape. This "transoptic" approach to landscape, breaking away from strictly searching for visual representations of culture, allows for sonic, experiential, and emotional layers of meaning embedded in landscapes to emerge from their plural cultural and historical contexts. Memory, and the production and experience of that memory in the landscape, benefit from this transoptic understanding. Utilizing memory work, which includes both memory production and consumption, in Wales as a case study, I employ a transoptic landscape analysis to approach multicultural understandings of Welsh history, memory, landscape, and identity in the National Wool Museum. Wales faces significant challenges as it navigates the rapidly shifting geopolitics of Europe, the United Kingdom, and its own histori.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3964

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Transoptic Landscape Analysis: Multidimensional Landscapes of a Multinational Wales ; volume:24 ; number:2 ; year:2023
Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 24, Heft 2 (2023)

Creator
Rhodes, Mark

DOI
10.17169/fqs-24.2.3964
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023060508253459306584
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