Blick ins Buch

Oilscapes of Louisiana

Neopragmatic Reflections on the Ambivalent Aesthetics of Landscape Constructions

Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

XXII, 255 Seiten

2024 | 1st ed. 2024
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-43395-6 (ISBN)

Lese- und Medienproben

Inhaltsverzeichnis (PDF)

Artikel merken

Oilscapes are to be understood as an aestheticized synthesis of objects of extraction, distribution, processing, and consumption of petroleum and petroleum-derived products. Based on the concept of neopragmatic landscape research, this book addresses questions of the social construction of the relationship between the petrochemical industry and the landscape, as well as individual interpretations and evaluations in this regard. The particular focus is on exploring the possibilities and limits of aesthetic experience of oilscapes as well as the categorizations, interpretations, and evaluations of these aesthetic outcomes. In recourse to the neopragmatic tradition, to the thinking of Richard Rorty, the engagement with 'sensory induced cognition' is carried out from the stance of irony, directed in particular at the discourse community possessing 'expert special knowledge', with a special focus on methods of representation that are innovative in the context of spatial science. The study area for assessing this approach is Louisiana (United States), which - being spatially quite diverse - has been intensively shaped for more than a century by the activities of the petrochemical industry, as well as its unintended health and ecological side effects.

lt;b>Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne is Professor for Urban and Regional Development at the Tübingen University.

Lara Koegst, MA, is a research associate in the Urban and Regional Development Group at the Tübingen University.

Dr. Karsten Berr is a research associate in the Urban and Regional Development Group at the Tübingen University.

Introduction.- Landscape theoretical approaches - the theory of three landscapes and neopragmatic landscape research.- Aesthetics and Aisthesis of Landscape.- Neopragmatic Synthesis.- Crude oil and natural gas - formation, extraction, distribution and processing.- Oilscapes - first conceptual approaches.- Methodological approaches to Oilscapes.- Louisiana's Oilscapes.-Media representations of Oilscapes..- Experiencing Oilscapes in Mode a and b..- 11 Contingent Oilscapes - from Aesthetic Redescriptions to Inverse Landscapes.- Oilscapes - a second and more differentiated conceptual version.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 255 p. 72 illus., 68 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 240 mm
Gewicht	479 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Aesthetics • Aisthesis • contingency • Irony • Landscape • Louisiana • neopragmatism • Oilscapes • Richard Rorty
ISBN-10	3-658-43395-7 / 3658433957
ISBN-13	978-3-658-43395-6 / 9783658433956
Zustand	Neuware