| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Watts, Paul Ronald
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| URN |
etd-06082011-141500 |
| Title |
Landscape, Mobilities, and Performance: An Autoethnographic and Visual Engagement with Public Protests in Washington, DC |
| Degree |
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
| Department |
Geography & Anthropology |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| DeLyser, Dydia |
Committee Chair |
| Bowman, Michael |
Committee Member |
| Colten, Craig |
Committee Member |
| Mathewson, Kent |
Committee Member |
| Richardson, Miles |
Committee Member |
| Denny, R. Kenton |
Dean's Representative |
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| Keywords |
- Landscape
- Mobilities
- Performance
- Practice
- Public Protests
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| Date of Defense |
2011-05-19 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This dissertation examines how geography’s traditional approach to studying cultural landscapes, which has been largely reliant upon vision, should also include the embodied practices: the customary and habitual actions that inform human engagement. Using public protests in Washington, DC as an extended case study, I reveal an underlying tension between protest participants’ embodied practices and material objects in the built environment. I accomplish this by drawing from over one year’s fieldwork in Washington, where I used qualitative approaches, including—but not limited to—participant observation and autoethnography, to engage in public protests as an embodied participant. To support my empirical data, I rely upon theoretical work by geographers and other scholars on mobilities and performativity to argue that protest participants (re)create a practiced landscape, one based on ephemeral and recurring events, and where participants in these events play with and against inscribed notions of Washington’s monumental landscape. I show that pubic protests are a normal practice in Washington, and as such are significant to its landscape. In the end, I advocate for geographers to embrace both vision and practice as a means of apprehending cultural landscapes.
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