Lived Topographies And Their Mediational

This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars who give a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place.

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Preface

ix

Introduction

xi

Gary Backhaus

Section I: Narrative or Semiotic Mediation

1

(92)

1 Exploration in Dead Space: The East End of London, England

3

(28)

Derek Shanahan

2 "The Whole Land is Sacred"-Story and the Navajo Sense of Place

31

(18)

Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh

3 Terra Incognita/Terra Nullius: Modem Imperialism, Maps, and Deception

49

(28)

Alex Zukas

4 Land Makes the Man: Topography and National Character in German Schoolbooks

77

(16)

Troy R.E. Paddock

Section II: Technological Mediation

93

(68)

5 Totalitarian Topographies: Ground Zero of Embargo Zones

95

(24)

Eduardo Mendieta

6 Between Battlefield and Battlescape: Info-Age Technology and the Topography of War

119

(26)

Dennis E. Skocz

7 Daniel Libeskind: From the End of Architecture to the Space of Memory

145

(16)

Martin Woessner

Section III: Mediation by Surveillance

161

(42)

8 Utilitarian Topographies of the Public: State Surveillance and the Case for Public Anonymity

163

(20)

Chad Kautzer

9 Categorial Imperatives for Fugitive Slaves: Some Topographical Axioms of Deontology

183

(20)

Marianne Sawicki

Selected Bibliography

203

(14)

Index

217

(6)

About the Contributors

223

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