Abstract
Abstract This article is based on a combination of anthropological and geographic approaches to seascape as an aspect of the cultural landscape. Following McCall Howard, Wickham-Jones, Ingold, and Arnason, we understand the term seascape as a “holistic term to describe the depth and complexity of human relations with the sea, the modes of human habitation of the sea, the importance of the sea to maintaining livelihoods, and the connections between land and sea.” We analyze the cartographic materials chronologically from the Franziscean Cadaster to present day and determine how the use of the Canal of St. Bartholomew has changed through time. Once a part of saltpans, providing salt water for salt production and a transport route, it is now a scenic place for leisure and a protected area. As a part of the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, the canal was poorly managed and is now a liminal site of nonregulated berths for pleasure vessels. For these reasons, this contested seascape is represented as “Texas,” an ecological disgrace, and a boat cemetery. This area is used for many contested activities, which at the same time contribute to environmental vulnerabilities and the destruction of natural and cultural heritage.
Highlights
This article is based on a combination of anthropological and geographic approaches to seascape as an aspect of the cultural landscape
Bartholomew as a cultural landscape with several different usages of the area, which triggered a series of disputes over the last quarter of the century
The anthropological fieldwork combines participant observation, informal interviews, as well as analysis of visual images and the discourses of several actors published in virtual space and on social media, which give us a reflection of contemporary and historical constructions of the Canal of St
Summary
Abstract: This article is based on a combination of anthropological and geographic approaches to seascape as an aspect of the cultural landscape. As a part of the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, the canal was poorly managed and is a liminal site of nonregulated berths for pleasure vessels For these reasons, this contested seascape is represented as “Texas,” an ecological disgrace, and a boat cemetery. This contested seascape is represented as “Texas,” an ecological disgrace, and a boat cemetery This area is used for many contested activities, which at the same time contribute to environmental vulnerabilities and the destruction of natural and cultural heritage. It was the first time after 28 years of warnings about the situation in the canal (such as poor management of the canal and the failure to arrange proper bicycle lanes) that representatives of the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial planning and the Water and Investments Directorate visited the inhabitants of the contested area in the company of Piran’s mayor. Shipwrecks were transported to Austria because Slovenia does not have a landfill that could be used in compliance with environmental
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