The bog in our brain and bowels: Social attitudes to the cartography of Icelandic wetlands
This paper discusses the social history, attitudes, and understanding of approaches to the utilisation of wetlands, their drainage, preservation, management, and research. The analysis is in two phases; the manifestation of wetlands in map making in Iceland; and the social history of wetlands. Both...
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ftunivwagenin:oai:library.wur.nl:wurpubs/564201 2024-02-04T10:01:31+01:00 The bog in our brain and bowels: Social attitudes to the cartography of Icelandic wetlands Huijbens, Edward H. Pálsson, Gísli 2009 text/html https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/the-bog-in-our-brain-and-bowels-social-attitudes-to-the-cartograp https://doi.org/10.1068/d9508 en eng https://edepot.wur.nl/521668 https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/the-bog-in-our-brain-and-bowels-social-attitudes-to-the-cartograp doi:10.1068/d9508 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Wageningen University & Research Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27 (2009) 2 ISSN: 0263-7758 Life Science info:eu-repo/semantics/article Article/Letter to editor info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2009 ftunivwagenin https://doi.org/10.1068/d9508 2024-01-10T23:23:35Z This paper discusses the social history, attitudes, and understanding of approaches to the utilisation of wetlands, their drainage, preservation, management, and research. The analysis is in two phases; the manifestation of wetlands in map making in Iceland; and the social history of wetlands. Both phases focus on the 20th century until the present. Maps and the history of mapmaking are used as a heuristic devise to gauge and set the scene for the perception and experience of wetlands in the thinking of people. In order to illustrate this development, examples are taken from literature and travel accounts. Current endeavour in the utilisation of land and biotopic classification, best demon-strated in maps today, foregrounds the nature of the striations, making maps, and drainage ditches. Thus wetlands are viewed differently today, but nonetheless lingering traces of the modernist logic of progress remain, as we aim to demonstrate. The lines that form the tufts on the Icelandic maps are thus never stable, the striation never an end but constantly motile. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre): Digital Library Endeavour ENVELOPE(162.000,162.000,-76.550,-76.550) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27 2 296 316 |
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This paper discusses the social history, attitudes, and understanding of approaches to the utilisation of wetlands, their drainage, preservation, management, and research. The analysis is in two phases; the manifestation of wetlands in map making in Iceland; and the social history of wetlands. Both phases focus on the 20th century until the present. Maps and the history of mapmaking are used as a heuristic devise to gauge and set the scene for the perception and experience of wetlands in the thinking of people. In order to illustrate this development, examples are taken from literature and travel accounts. Current endeavour in the utilisation of land and biotopic classification, best demon-strated in maps today, foregrounds the nature of the striations, making maps, and drainage ditches. Thus wetlands are viewed differently today, but nonetheless lingering traces of the modernist logic of progress remain, as we aim to demonstrate. The lines that form the tufts on the Icelandic maps are thus never stable, the striation never an end but constantly motile. |
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