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Transoptic Landscape Analysis: Multidimensional Landscapes Of A Multinational Wales, Mark Rhodes
Transoptic Landscape Analysis: Multidimensional Landscapes Of A Multinational Wales, Mark Rhodes
Michigan Tech Publications
In this article I propose a novel extension to landscape analysis through multidimensional understandings, including—yet reaching beyond—tangible and into more-than-representational understandings of landscape. This "transoptic" approach to landscape, breaking away from strictly searching for visual representations of culture, allows for sonic, experiential, and emotional layers of meaning embedded in landscapes to emerge from their plural cultural and historical contexts. Memory, and the production and experience of that memory in the landscape, benefit from this transoptic understanding. Utilizing memory work, which includes both memory production and consumption, in Wales as a case study, I employ a transoptic landscape analysis to approach …