Svalbard's Haunted Landscapes
Cultural landscapes represent social structures, interests, and values. At the same time, the observer can derive, interpret, reinterpret, and inscribe new meanings to the landscape. Landscapes that are saturated with ideologically charged symbols dictate to the viewer what can and cannot be seen an...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b5991c2715324dca866f6a3f4c56e118 2023-05-15T15:05:05+02:00 Svalbard's Haunted Landscapes Nadir Kinossian 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5028 https://doaj.org/article/b5991c2715324dca866f6a3f4c56e118 EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5028 https://doaj.org/toc/0809-1668 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-2086 doi:10.7557/13.5028 0809-1668 1503-2086 https://doaj.org/article/b5991c2715324dca866f6a3f4c56e118 Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, Iss 45 (2020) Landscape Svalbard Arctic haunting ghost heritage Norwegian literature PT8301-9155 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/13.5028 2022-12-31T02:09:26Z Cultural landscapes represent social structures, interests, and values. At the same time, the observer can derive, interpret, reinterpret, and inscribe new meanings to the landscape. Landscapes that are saturated with ideologically charged symbols dictate to the viewer what can and cannot be seen and derived from them. On the other hand, landscapes that are abandoned, ruined, partly erased, and deprived of actors, activities, and political context present a different sort of setting. What can be derived from them? What or whom do they represent? Can the current conceptualisations help to capture their meanings? This paper attempts to expand the debate on cultural landscapes, by exploring the linkages to the concepts of haunting and ghosts. It uses the Russian settlements of Barentsburg, Pyramiden and Grumant, located in Svalbard (Norway), as an example. The paper argues that ruined and abandoned landscapes are ‘haunted’, and that the viewer can engage with a haunted landscape through interactions with ‘ghosts’ – fictitious agents that fulfil two roles: i) allowing the viewer to associate with the ghost, and ii) reminding the viewer of the bygone actors, forces, and contexts that shaped the landscape. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Barentsburg Grumant Pyramiden Svalbard Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Svalbard Norway Barentsburg ENVELOPE(14.212,14.212,78.064,78.064) Pyramiden ENVELOPE(-3.817,-3.817,-72.283,-72.283) Nordlit 45 |
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Cultural landscapes represent social structures, interests, and values. At the same time, the observer can derive, interpret, reinterpret, and inscribe new meanings to the landscape. Landscapes that are saturated with ideologically charged symbols dictate to the viewer what can and cannot be seen and derived from them. On the other hand, landscapes that are abandoned, ruined, partly erased, and deprived of actors, activities, and political context present a different sort of setting. What can be derived from them? What or whom do they represent? Can the current conceptualisations help to capture their meanings? This paper attempts to expand the debate on cultural landscapes, by exploring the linkages to the concepts of haunting and ghosts. It uses the Russian settlements of Barentsburg, Pyramiden and Grumant, located in Svalbard (Norway), as an example. The paper argues that ruined and abandoned landscapes are ‘haunted’, and that the viewer can engage with a haunted landscape through interactions with ‘ghosts’ – fictitious agents that fulfil two roles: i) allowing the viewer to associate with the ghost, and ii) reminding the viewer of the bygone actors, forces, and contexts that shaped the landscape. |
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