For scholars of local histories, cultural geographies, and matters space and place.
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Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Introduction: The Magic Mix in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days ago
Introduction to the poetry of Mohammad Zaman.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बाढ़: अनकही कहानी in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days ago
इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Cowpastures in monuments, memorials and murals in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Any memorials, monuments, historic sites, and other public facilities commemorate, celebrate and generally remind us about the landscape of the Cowpastures. In recent decades there has been a nostalgia turn in recovering the memory of the Cowpastures landscape. This is cast in terms of the pioneers and the legacy of the European settlement.
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Ian Willis deposited A Camden Link to the First Railway in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
One of the first directors of the Sydney Railway Company was colonial identity Thomas Barker who established Maryland at Bringelly in the 1850s. He developed the farm Maryland as a Sydney gentleman’s retreat and starting building his hilltop homestead in 1854. Barker was a successful Sydney businessman and philanthropist who was one of the…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden, a Macarthur family venture in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago
The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The memory of the Cowpastures in monuments and memorials in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
The Cowpastures was a vague area south of the Nepean River floodplain on the southern edge of Sydney’s Cumberland Plain. The Dharawal Indigenous people who managed the area were sidelined in 1796 by Europeans when Governor Hunter named the ‘Cow Pasture Plains’ in his sketch map. He had visited the area the previous year to witness the escaped…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The quay transforms from transport to tourist mecca in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Circular Quay was one of the first points of contact between First Nations people and Europeans, and to this day, it is one of the busiest localities on Sydney Harbour. The quay’s history is rich as it is still a busy transport hub, government administration area and commercial zone. In more recent decades, it’s expanded to include thriving…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Sydney’s Customs House – a means of collecting taxes in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Taxes and dying. Two certainties in life, and that was certainly the case in colonial Sydney. For more than 150 years Customs House has provided the means of collecting taxes on the movement of goods
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Ian Willis deposited A new horizon on Sydney’s urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases. in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Journalist Jeff McGill recently wrote an opinion piece in the Campbel/town Macarthur Advertiser with the heading ‘Nothing “yucky” about fibro cottages’. He continued that ‘Macarthur’s first big housing development was Campbelltown’s St Elmo Estates of the 1950s, guided by Neil McLean, a much-loved developer’.1 The McLean St Elmo land releases were…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited ‘Just like England’, a colonial settler landscape in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
Early European settlers were the key actors in a place-making exercise that constructed an English-style landscape aesthetic on the colonial stage in the Cowpastures district of New South Wales. The aesthetic became part of the settler colonial project and the settlers’ aim of taking possession of territory involved the construction of a c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited ‘जाति जरूरी है’ से लेकर ‘सत्य सर्वजातीय है’ तक का सफर in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
लक्ष्मी नगर के मेट्रो स्टेशन से उत्तर की ओर बढ़ते ही शकरपुर का ‘स्कूल ब्लॉक’ मोहल्ला आता है। कुछ समय पहले तक इसकी एक गली पर एक हैरतअंगेज साइन-बोर्ड लगा था, जिस पर बड़े अक्षरों में लिखा था – ‘जाति जरूरी है’। बोर्ड में जाति के फायदों का उल्लेख करते हुए इसे हर जगह के लिए आवश्यक बताया गया था। बोर्ड एकदम मुख्य सड़क पर था। आते-जात…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and Wales in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
The Gothic clings to Irish and Welsh coasts and finds voice through strange stories. Centuries of accumulated death and tragedy forms a dense web of sorrow with particularly prolific roots in the literature, songs, and stories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These traditions resonate within the longer history of lives and vessels lost…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric citizenship: Sonic movement and public religion in Shi‘i Mumbai in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months ago
In Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles in staging claims to the city. Investigating the sonic aspects of urban pla…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion Preprint PDF in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Ian Rodwell deposited The importance of hedgerows: the case for organisational ‘rewilding’ in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
In this paper, I explore organisational space through the analogy of the hedgerow. This is a locale of difference that signifies the boundary it simultaneously enacts; a trickster landscape of ‘semiotic uncertainty’; a place of unease but also one of congregation and exchange. I report on my research into the liminal spaces of organisational…[Read more]
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Candace Bailey deposited Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Review of Charleston Belles Abroad in Journal of American History
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Bill Pascoe deposited Mapping Meaning: learnings from indigenous mapping technology for Australia’s digital humanities mapping infrastructure in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Time Layered Cultural Map (TLCMap) is an ambitious, ARC funded, digital humanities mapping infrastructure initiative in Australia. TLCMap infrastructure is for everyone, but the inspiration, conception and development of it has always had Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mapping at its heart. If Australian culture is world famous for anything…[Read more]
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Baltasar deposited El contexto psicológico de la ciudad contemporánea in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
El autor presenta una visión panorámica de la evolución histórica y conceptual de algunos temas clave de los estudios urbanos: el tamaño de la ciudad, el espacio urbano, el concepto de urbanita y ciudadano, y el modelo de ciudad ideal. Las propuestas de los sociólogos del siglo XIX y de la Escuela de Chicago, han dejado paso a un urbanismo postm…[Read more]
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Frans Prasetyo deposited Half bowl ritual, half public-private : Space and Place Skateboard in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Skateboards have unique character complexities in the city, as multiface, multispace and multiplace. Spatialization of style to Stylization of space is a how skareboard create youth culture and a part of sub-culture. Looking ritual a play skateboard in the city more have dimension of style, space and place, as happened in bowl skatepark.
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James Louis Smith deposited Rural Waterscape and Emotional Sectarianism in Accounts of Lough Derg, County Donegal in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
The story of Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal is arranged around clusters of sectarian narratives in juxtaposition, synthesis and conflict. The Sanctuary of Saint Patrick sits on Station Island, a small rocky islet set within the waters of the lake. The site became well known in the early Middle Ages as the place of Saint Patrick’s del…[Read more]
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