Fragmentary landscapes : explorations through the detritus of the Peak District
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 41905858
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/01426397.2017.1317724
- Title of journal
- Landscape Research
- Article number
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- First page
- 663
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 0142-6397
- Open access status
- Technical exception
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This sole authored article is published in a special issue of Landscape Research. It was developed through research funded by a PhD Teaching Scholarship from the University of Edinburgh. The output builds upon two key theoretical and epistemological explorations of assemblage theory (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, Delanda 2006) and performativity (Butler 2010, Woods 2010) by interpreting heritage not as coherent wholes, but rather as ‘detritus’, developing an ‘unforgetting’ (Stewart 1996, Ross 2009, Harrison 2012) of landscape. It argues that the “detritus, chemicals and unseen spaces” can reveal an “alternative form of heritage“. This fragmentary heritage works within a limited literature (DeSilvey 2011, Gordillo 2015) adding to the ongoing debate.
The research followed the principles of ethnographic and auto-ethnographic research, including fieldwork, ‘walk-and-talks’, “quotidian tales, gossip, speculations, rumours and memories” (through recorded conversations with local residents following an oral history methodology). It also includes original photographs taken by the author. The narratives were analysed using thematic analysis to encourage connections not only within the narratives but across multiple narratives. Detailed historical and theoretical research provided the foundations for the creative and sensory methods used to understand the landscape (Harrison 2012, DeSilvey 2011, Law 2004). It argues for a new understanding of how heritage is ‘performed’ and allows for the development of new perspectives within landscape theory and heritage.
The article has been in the public domain for over two years now and is cited in a new book Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures (Carter, Harvey & Jones, 2019), as well as by Perez & Zurtia, 2020 and Edensor, 2017. Carter et al. 2019 recognise the significance of the ‘hidden heritage’ within the developing discourse of heritage, as is also discussed by Edensor.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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