The 'construction' of landscape : a case study of the Otago Peninsula, Aotearoa / New Zealand
dc.contributor.author | Read, Marion | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-08T02:20:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.description.abstract | This project has sought to answer the question 'How is landscape made?’ by examining the landscape of the Otago Peninsula on the east coast of the South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. By taking a social constructionist approach, an in depth case study has been completed using ethnographic methods combined with discourse analysis. The theoretical framework adopted led to the research question being refined and divided into two parts. The first seeks to determine the discourses that construct the landscape of the Otago Peninsula. Those identified include discourses of Mana Whenua, agriculture, environmentalism, gardening, heritage, neo-liberalism and the picturesque. These discourses interact and resist one another through networks of power. Thus the second part of the research question seeks to understand these networks and the distributions of power through them. The agricultural discourse is the most powerful, albeit under strong challenge from the environmental discourse and from the impacts of neo-liberalism. Mana Whenua discourses have gained significant power in recent decades, but their influence is tenuous. The picturesque discourse has significant power and has been utilised as a key tool in District planning in the area. Thus, the landscape is seen to be made by the dynamic interactions of discourses. This has two consequences, the first, an emphasising of the dynamism of the landscape - it is a process which is under constant flux as a consequence of both the human interactions with and within it, and the biophysical processes which continue outside of human ken. The second consequence is to stress that the landscape is not a unitary object and that this needs to be recognised in the formulation of policy and landscape management. | en |
dc.format.extent | 1-346 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10182/1604 | |
dc.identifier.wikidata | Q112867378 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Lincoln University | |
dc.publisher.place | Canterbury | en |
dc.subject | landscape architecture | en |
dc.subject | Aotearoa New Zealand | en |
dc.subject | landscape | en |
dc.subject | Otago Peninsula | en |
dc.subject | discourse | en |
dc.subject | discourse analysis | en |
dc.subject | power | en |
dc.subject.marsden | Marsden::370109 Environmental Sociology | en |
dc.subject.marsden | Marsden::310104 Landscape planning | en |
dc.title | The 'construction' of landscape : a case study of the Otago Peninsula, Aotearoa / New Zealand | en |
dc.type | Thesis | |
lu.contributor.unit | Lincoln University | |
lu.contributor.unit | Faculty of Environment, Society and Design | |
pubs.publication-status | Published | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Lincoln University | en |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
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