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A landscape cannot be a homeland

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What is the problem for which landscape is the answer? In this paper, I offer a response to this question, first posed at a meeting of landscape researchers in Brussels in 2011. I argue that the problem can be defined as ontopology, or what I call here homeland thinking, and I propose that a landscape cannot be a homeland. The salience of landscape as a critical term instead involves modes of thinking and feeling that chafe against invocations of homeland as a site of existential inhabitation, as a locus of sentiment and attachment, and a wellspring of identity. The paper explores the connections between ideas of landscape and homeland through discussions of the European Landscape Convention, phenomenology and the term homeland itself. I conclude by arguing that a landscape must be understood as a kind of dislocation or distancing from itself. There are, after all, no original inhabitants.

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  • John Wylie, 2016. "A landscape cannot be a homeland," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 408-416, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:41:y:2016:i:4:p:408-416
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2016.1156067
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    1. Steven Shuttleworth, 2017. "Editorial annex: key findings and recommendations from the HERCULES research project, and the need for a landscape approach to enviromental governance," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(8), pages 819-830, November.

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