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- Title
The trees of Huế.
- Authors
Vo, Ylan
- Abstract
The politics of nature in central Vietnam today reflects a history of encounters between European imagination and local landscape practices. This essay explores a series of vignettes that range from domestic gardening of citrus trees and urban pine groves, to green hills in Hue's environs and the forests at its mountainous western border. While relating to contemporary frameworks of ecological conservation and restoration, these examples also foreground production of heritage, the city's idenity, and its cultural and aesthetic values. Huế's development as a UNESCO world heritage site and tourist destination sustains the dominance of global forces, but is also an opporunity to reclaim local knowledge and decolonize histories of landscape renewal in the present.
- Subjects
HUE (Vietnam); VIETNAM; UNESCO; WORLD Heritage Sites; URBAN trees; ORNAMENTAL trees; AESTHETICS; CULTURAL values; URBAN agriculture; CITRUS
- Publication
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 2021, Issue 55, p229
- ISSN
1756-9575
- Publication type
Article