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- Title
Visualizing the Contested Countryside: A Photographic Study of the Rural Landscape in Southern Oregon.
- Authors
McKinnon, Innisfree
- Abstract
Recent research has pointed to the postproductivist countryside as a place in which the rural landscape itself becomes a commodity packaged to satisfy the imaginings of ever increasing numbers of urban elites. Contradictorily, this form of globalization reinforces the pastoral idyll while being produced by the urbanization of rural societies. The visual characteristics of the landscape are obviously key in the production of these hybrid forms, yet geographers have little explored the ways in which these changes can actually be seen. This paper examines a case study in southern Oregon, a region that has experienced rapid growth through amenity migration over the past forty years. By photographing collaboratively with local informants, it explores visual aspects of the globalized countryside. Rather than assuming that such places continue to "look" rural while their function changes, this paper argues that photography can be used to explore shifting visual discourses, revealing changes in form and function.
- Subjects
RURAL geography; LANDSCAPES; PHOTOGRAPHY in geography
- Publication
Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2013, Vol 75, p207
- ISSN
0066-9628
- Publication type
Abstract