Geographical Perception Research Articles

The influence of geographic perception on shaping geopolitical codes: the case of the People’s Republic of China

The influence of geographic perception on shaping geopolitical codes: the case of the People’s Republic of China

Mapping Secular Choirs in Sweden

Abstract The role of religion in Western societies has gained renewed attention in recent years. While choirs have been studied to varying extents in the social sciences, the geography of choirs has received little attention, particularly in human geography. Using questionnaire responses from secular choir members, this exploratory study examines the possible differences and/or similarities of secular choir’s sacral and/or secular activity in urban and rural spaces in Sweden. The study reveals two primary findings. First, it reveals that secular choir members engage in a mixture of secular and sacred activities, suggesting that these activities can be considered postsecular. Second, the data challenges the geographical perception of rural environments as more sacred/traditional, as they have a high proportion of secular activities. Likewise, the results questions the geographical perception of urban environments as secular/modern, as they demonstrate an even distribution of sacred activities.

Turning the invisible into the visible: exploring consumers’ perceptions towards sustainable water consumption

PurposeThis study aims to elaborate on the interface between water scarcity and consumption and, specifically to focus on, how consumers’ perceptions and views towards (un)sustainable water consumption can inform the development of sustainable water practices and environmental policies.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative methodology was adopted, consisting of 34 in-depth interviews with consumers, in four cities in the United Kingdom (UK). The semi-structured interviews sought to examine sustainable water consumption practices in more depth within an unexplored context, and secondary data were also used to explore the phenomenon in more depth.FindingsThe findings provide novel theoretical and empirical insights around the invisibility and imperceptibility of (un)sustainable water consumption. The findings suggest how interdisciplinary and collaborative practices can enhance more responsible and sustainable consumption of water resources in the UK.Practical implicationsThe study can inform marketing strategies on community engagement with localised water sustainable actions and encourage policymakers to develop concrete marketing communications and increased public awareness regarding water scarcity.Social implicationsConsidering the slow growth of water scarcity, the findings can prompt marketing scholars to explore similar phenomena, within seemingly unaffected countries, urban centres, industries and marketplaces.Originality/valuePrevious studies focused on the measurement of household water consumption in the water-scarce context of the Southern Hemisphere. Challenging geographical perceptions of water shortage, this study focuses on the UK and highlights how the multidimensional, finite and invisible nature of water consumption requires collaborative efforts in tackling water scarcity.

Physiognomy and Geosophy of Pergamon according to Aelius Aristeides

Geographical depictions in ancient texts are often personal, biased, subjective, and sometimes imaginative. Therefore, the concept of geosophy coined by J. Kirtland Wright is important in terms of examining the geographical narratives and expressions in historical texts. According to him, geosophy is the study of geographical information in all respects and covers both true and false geographical ideas of all manner of people. Hence, Wright emphasizes that intuitive, imaginative and subjective thoughts are also valuable in geographical perception and should be taken into consideration. Examining all kinds of information related to the geographical perception in the texts from past to present brings the concept of geosophy closer to history as a discipline. In this study, physiognomic and geographical definitions of Aelius Aristeides, an orator and sophist of the 2nd century CE, about Pergamon, which is the most important ancient settlement of Kaikos Valley, and its surroundings are examined in terms of geosophical subjectivity and imagining categories. Thus, it is revealed that the examination of the narratives of ancient texts on terrestrial space from the geosophical point of view can offer new perspectives in studies on ancient history and historical geography.

INVENTION OF “ROMAN”, IMAGINATION OF “BARBARIAN”: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMPERIAL IDENTITY OF ROME IN THE LATER TEXTS OF OVID

Purpose. The author in the presented article considers the late texts of Ovid, presented by Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto. The purpose of the article is to analyze how the texts reflect the processes of formation of the imperial political culture and identity.
 Research novelty. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the late texts of Ovid not as literary, but as political narratives that inspired the transformation of Roman identity, contributing to the actualization of the concepts of Self and Otherness.
 Materials and methods. Methodologically, the article is based on the principles of interdisciplinarity proposed in the framework of studies of nationalism, intellectual and cultural history, transplanted into the contexts of the literary history of Rome in the 1st century AD.
 Results. The article analyzes 1) Ovid’s attempts to form an ideal and positive image of power, 2) Ovid’s contribution to the development of Roman ideas about barbarians, 3) peculiarities of Ovid’s geographical perception of the formation of Roman territory as an imperial heterogeneous space. The contribution of the later texts of Ovid, represented by Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto and written in exile, to the formation of political imperial culture and identity is shown. The results of the study suggest that 1) Ovid was one of the first Roman authors who textualized the transformations of political power, contributing to the genesis of the cult of imperial power as an element of political culture; 2) in the formation and imagination of the images of the barbarians, Ovid continued the earlier tendencies of hierarchization and idealization of the inhabitants of the peripheral provinces: 3) the later texts of Ovid, written in exile, became a contribution to the development of the cultural geography of the emerging Roman Empire, based on the glorification and positive idealization of Italy through the prism of its opposition to the provinces.

Views of the islands: The geographical perception of the Balearic Islands among graduate students in primary education

Geographic literacy is a field of research with a great tradition. This area was first developed in the British and North American academic circles in the 1980s and 1990s, and research has continued until the present day. The analysis of perception and knowledge of geography has focused on the enclaves (toponyms) mentioned in the mental maps (place location knowledge) prepared by university undergraduate students of the primary education teaching major. However, this focus is also on an approach where few studies have been made, yet it has been facilitated by the incorporation of modern geographic information technologies. The authors test a methodology for surface area and perimeter size analysis on the mental maps of the Balearic Islands made by future teachers, comparing their distortions in relation to the real model. After analyzing the results, the most notable common pattern describing the insular students’ perception of the isles is ethnocentrism, which undoubtedly has important implications in the field of geographic education.

ALMA Digital Atlas of the Ancient Jewish World: An Introductory Essay

The “spatial turn” in the humanities has led to increased exploration of spatial perspectives. This shift inspired the ALMA Digital Atlas of the Ancient Jewish World project, which aims to develop a comprehensive digital-analytical atlas. It is intended to serve as a tool for geographical and comparative research on ancient Jewish geography, spanning the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. The atlas builds on two elemental entity types: place, which pertains to regions or settlements, and source, which addresses pertinent historical texts, archaeological finds, or both, allowing for the robust comparison of geographical information from various sources. This project seeks not only to address existing historical and geographical questions but also to raise new ones, offering fresh insights into geographical perception in antiquity.

BRİTANYA ADALARI’NIN TARİHİ COĞRAFYASI VE İLK HALKLARI

The historical geography of Britain and its first peoples are discussed with the geographical perspective provided by the concepts of "Atlantic Europe" and "Western Europe". Humbly, this study aims to contribute to the expansion of the geographical perception of England through the axis of Western European historical geography in Turkish historiography by using the light of studies on the prehistoric period. Throughout the centuries, the British Isles served as an important transit station for the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea routes as a nodal point in the north of the European mainland. In this context, Britain’s regional geography has been scrutinized by centered on the strategic location of the Island within the transportation networks. Secondly, The Celts -first known settled community of the British Isles- provided the opportunity to evaluate the population of the island through the phenomenon of migration in the prehistory period from the upper scale perspective of regional geography. The Celts, who were adept at processing iron, maintained their settlements in the British Isles for many years under the influence of this tool-equipment power that determined the superiority of other communities. Furthermore, Celts have been the subject of ethnic origin studies since the age of Nationalism. In the light of the findings, the Celts genetically influenced the red-haired tough-looking breed in Ireland and western Scotland with their dark, curly-haired typologies. It was concluded that most of the blond population in the British population came from Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian ancestors. The extensive presence of the Celts in Western Europe helps us to perceive Britain’s regional geography and reveals the historical phenomenon of geographical transitivity.

КУЛЬТУРНО-ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ ОБРАЗ СИБИРИ В ЯЗЫКОВОМ СОЗНАНИИ РОССИЙСКИХ СТУДЕНТОВ: ДИАХРОНИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ

Statement of the problem. This article traces the dynamics of the stereotypical component of the cultural and geographical image of Siberia in the linguistic consciousness of different generations of Russian students, which is conducted by benchmarking the data of free-associative experiments. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the cultural and geographical image of Siberia in the linguistic consciousness of Russian students in order to reveal its possible dynamics. Methodology (materials and methods). Reconstruction of the cultural and geographical image of Siberia is conducted with the support of the free-associative experiment method with the utilization of three dictionaries of associative norms and data of the in-house experiment. Research results. Comparison of the associative fields’ main zones of the stimulus “Siberia” demonstrated a presence of not only certain concurrences but also significant changes in the content of association directions as well as their presence/absence in the linguistic consciousness of different generations of students. Conclusions. With the consistency of merely geographical perceptions of Siberia revealed among different generations of students, a notable dynamic of their culturological knowledge and phycological perception enclosed in the comprehensive cultural and geographical image of Siberia was distinguished. Authors’ contribution. The concept of the article, its theoretical comprehension and experimental implementation belongs to the authors of the article.

Cricket Playing in America: Real and Imagined Places of New York in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland

Abstract In his novel Netherland, Joseph O’Neill discusses several issues that arise for a contemporary wanderer or immigrant, namely, issues of adjustment, cultural transition, becoming visible, etc. The search for a new home is accompanied by the idea of a new place and the memory of the native place. Immigrants provide a particular perspective of the city from the position of an outsider. New York is the city that allows seeing the correlation between a geographic perception and the idea of a place that is formed by an immigrant. Real places of New York and their fictional representations in O’Neill’s novel become the focus of this study. The geocritical approach is employed as a productive tool for the analysis of New York spatiality and myth-making.

Assessment of the Occurrence of Forest Fires in Pandemic Period by COVID-19 in Chile. Preliminary Backgrounds.

The spatial and temporal behavior of the occurrence of forest fires in Chile was evaluated in the presence of COVID-19 and mobility restrictions. The fire period from 2015–2016 to 2020–2021 was considered and statistics on mobility restrictions were granted by the Government of Chile. The analysis was developed at different scales of geographic perception. At the national and regional levels, the global behavior of the occurrence was determined, and later at the communal level, the political territorial unit, to determine internal variations attributable to the mobility dynamics in the quarantine period. In the process, the meteorological background of the fire activity was also considered. The results indicate that it is possible to rule out a meteorological effect, based on the variation of the moisture content of fine fuel. There was also no statistical association between the humidity of the fuel and the variation in the occurrence of fires. It is concluded that the communes that presented the greatest mobility of people before the pandemic were those that obtained the greatest reduction in fires. The variation in mobility, the product of restriction measures, is a statistical predictor of the increase or decrease in fires.

‘松島開拓願’ 관련 “제4기 최종보고서”의 주장 비판

Shimane Prefecture's "Takeshima Issue Research Group", which was launched in 2005, has released the 4th term "Final Report on Investigation on the Takeshima Issue" this time. This paper contains a review and criticism on the content related to ‘Matsushima pioneering request(松島開拓願)’ contained in the report. The investigation of the people related to Ishibashi and Matsuzawa's 'Matsushima pioneering request' in the report examines the Japanese people's perception of Ulleungdo and Dokdo during the period from the early Meiji period to the beginning of Ulleungdo pioneering. It can be seen that the intention is to reinforce the argument. However, looking at the process of processing “Matsushima pioneering request” submitted to the Japanese government at the time, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was clearly aware that Ulleungdo was Korean territory. It is clear that he had However, in the 4th report, the intention to rationalize it is clearly revealed by arguing that the people related to “Matsushima pioneering request” at the time were not aware that “Matsushima(松島)” or “Takeshima(竹島)” were “Ulleungdo”. As such, the report not only discusses the territorial sovereignty over Dokdo based on the inaccurate geographical perception of Ulleungdo, but also describes the incorrect interpretation of the ‘Dajo-kan Directive’, which denies the Meiji government's state governance. Therefore, it can be seen that these studies by the Japanese side are only repeating the deterrence claim over Dokdo's sovereignty.

Discursive Construction of Geography in Populist Mobilization: Superority or Victimhood

The article argues that geographies are discursive constructs, designed to mobilize the crowd through the collective sense made by political leaders. Accordingly, this study seeks to examine the ways in which the leaders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) have mobilized voters by means of re-instituting geography during election campaigns. It contributes to investigating the political mobilization of the AKP by appealing to attachment of geography. The findings demonstrate three main narratives: the construction of geographical perception, place satisfaction, and the imagination of place identity with the “chameleonic nature” of populism. In brief words, the article explores the ways in which the AKP leaders have leveraged geographic beliefs, stimulating the “we-ness,” in mobilizing.

Gestão territorial e zoneamento ambiental na Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Coruripe-AL: embates territoriais e perspectivas geográficas

RESUMO: O presente artigo resulta de um recorte da dissertação de mestrado defendida em março de 2020 no Programa em Dinâmicas Territoriais e Cultura (PRODIC) da Universidade Estadual de Alagoas-Uneal, o qual tem como objeto de estudo a Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Coruripe-AL. O Zoneamento ambiental apresenta-se em detrimento do uso e ocupação do solo, calcado na apropriação de recursos naturais numa bacia hidrográfica, enquanto fator de análise e instrumento de gestão territorial no contexto das características geoambientais de uma bacia hidrográfica possui, com vistas a sistematizar as principais atividades desenvolvidas no campo socioambiental, potencializando o desenvolvimento socioeconômico, com enfoque no planejamento e gestão territorial. Tal estudo propõe um zoneamento ecológico-econômico (ZEE), embutido na acepção do decreto 4.297/2002 à luz dos direitos humanos e ambientais, com base em instrumentos adotados na caracterização da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Coruripe (BHRC) em Alagoas, os quais baseam-se em percepções geográficas dos recursos naturais existentes .Para tanto, o estudo teve como parâmetro metodológico e de conceitos abordados, trabalhos realizados sobre Bacias Hidrográficas, a exemplo de: Carvalho (2006), Cunico (2007), Pereira (2010), Lopes (2013), Peres (2016), Santos (2018), Jacó (2019), entre outros. Para a identificação dos impactos socioambientais, foram utilizados inicialmente imagens obtidas via satélite em sites à confecção de mapas elaborados pelo softaware Qgis, no qual o uso e ocupação do solo é enfatizado na BHRC, trazendo áreas de destaques provenientes de antropização por parte do uso das terras. A Bacia do Rio Coruripe, por sua vez, apresenta uma variação de cultivos, distribuídos nos mais de 19 municípios por onde se estendem seus leitos e margens. Para tal análise do mau uso das terras foram analisados os elementos naturais:geolologia e geomorfologia. Essas influenciadas, consubstancialmente, pela topografia e por fatores de ordem geoclimática e antrópica. Os principais problemas de impactos socioambientais, decorrem necessariamente da emissão de: resíduos sólidos, de esgoto in natura jogados ao rio e aos afluentes, das pastagens na criação do gado e do pisoteio em áreas próximas às nascentes, culturas em uso das águas do rio, do assoreamento dos mananciais, tudo isso indicando a vulnerabilidade socioambiental da BHRC.
 PALAVRAS-CHAVE: eutrofização, vulnerabilidade socioambiental, reflorestamento.

조선 후기 주기적 울릉도 수토와 울릉도 인식 양상에 대한 연구

조선 후기 주기적 울릉도 수토와 울릉도 인식 양상에 대한 연구

INTELLIGENT SERVICE PUSH METHOD BASED ON ACTIVE GEOGRAPHIC PERCEPTION

Abstract. In view of the lack of consideration of user behavior motives in traditional personalized precision service systems, the accuracy of service content is not high.In order to solve this problem, research on personalized accurate service push method based on active geographic perception. By constructing a geographic feature information model, get the characteristics of the user's destination in real time, and then infer the user's behavioral motivation. Focusing on active geographic awareness technology and personalized precision service methods, the concept, principle, process and key technologies of active geographic sensing are studied, determined the main research content of active geographic perception and the relationship. Then analyze and discuss the construction method of active geographic awareness architecture, developed a geographic feature content system and studied its extraction and weight calculation methods. By the way, according to the characteristics of active geo-sensing, an active awareness API conforming to high efficiency and real-time is designed. Then explored the personalized accurate service push method based on active geographic perception,designed three processes of geographic awareness, service retrieval and service push, a service retrieval and delivery method is proposed. Finally, a personalized precise service system based on active geographical perception is designed. By adding geographic features to the personalized precision service, it can make up for the lack of service personalization and lack of precision caused by ignoring user motivation, which provides a new idea for more accurate and personalized service push.

Blurred Boundaries: Ethnofiction and Its Impact on Postwar Japanese Cinema

This article explores the use of ethnofiction, a technique emerging from the field of visual anthropology, which blends documentary and fiction filmmaking for ethnographic purposes. From Imamura Shōhei’s A Man Vanishes (Ningen jōhatsu, 1967) to Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Cafe Lumieré (Kōhi jikō, 2003), Japanese cinema, including Japan-set and Japan-associated cinema, has employed ethnofiction filmmaking techniques to alternately exploit and circumvent the structural barriers to filmmaking found in everyday life. Yet the dominant understanding in Japanese visual ethnography positions ethnofiction as an imported genre, reaching Japan through Jean Rouch and French cinema-verité. Blending visual analysis of Imamura and Hou’s ethnofiction films with an auto-ethnographic account of my own experience of four years of visual anthropology in Kansai, I interrogate the organizational barriers constructed around geographical perception and genre definition to argue for ethnofiction as a filmmaking technique that simultaneously emerged in French cinema-verité and Japanese feature filmmaking of the 1960s. Blurring the boundaries between Japanese, French, and East Asian co-production films, and between documentary and fiction genres, allows us to understand ethnofiction as a truly global innovation, with certain regional specificities.

Історико-географічні уявлення і національна ідентичність. Рецензія на монографію: Трубчанінов С. В. Конструювання національного простору: історико-географічні уявлення в українській науковій і суспільно-політичній думці 1830–1930-х рр.: Монографія. Кам’янець-Подільський: Оіюм, 2019. – 480 с

Історико-географічні уявлення і національна ідентичність. Рецензія на монографію: Трубчанінов С. В. Конструювання національного простору: історико-географічні уявлення в українській науковій і суспільно-політичній думці 1830–1930-х рр.: Монографія. Кам’янець-Подільський: Оіюм, 2019. – 480 с

Hittite Geographers: Geographical Perceptions and Practices in Hittite Anatolia

AbstractHittite archives are remarkably rich in geographical data. A diverse array of documents has yielded, aside from thousands of geographical names (of towns, territories, mountains, and rivers), detailed descriptions of the Hittite state’s frontiers and depictions of landscape and topography. Historical geography has, as a result, occupied a central place in Hittitological research since the beginnings of the field. The primary aim of scholarship in this area has been to locate (precisely) or localize (approximately) regions, towns, and other geographical features, matching Hittite geographical names with archaeological sites, unexcavated mounds, and—whenever possible—with geographical names from the classical period. At the same time, comparatively little work has been done on geographical thinking in Hittite Anatolia: how and for what purpose(s) was geographical information collected, organized, and presented? How did those who produce the texts imagine their world and their homeland, “the Land of Hatti?” How did they characterize other lands and peoples they came into contact with? Concentrating on these questions, the present paper aims to extract from Hittite written sources their writers’ geographical conceptions and practices. It is argued that the acquisition and management of geographical information was an essential component of the Hittite Empire’s administrative infrastructure and that geographical knowledge was central to the creation of a Hittite homeland.

Uniqueness Perception and Willingness to Buy Protected Geographical Origin Versus Doppelgänger Brands

This study explores what drives consumers’ judgments and decisions – uniqueness perception of a foreign product with protected geographical origin cue or uniqueness perception of a domestic doppelgänger product. We find that uniqueness perception of domestic brands has greater impact on willingness to buy domestic brands compared with the uniqueness perception of the brand holding geographical origin labels. Next, our data shows that uniqueness perception of domestic doppelgänger brands has influence not only on willingness to buy such brands (positive influence) but also negative influence on willingness to buy true and unique brands denominated by protected origin. Thus, by perceiving the uniqueness of a domestic brand positively, consumers discount the original, unique and legally protected brand and are less willing to buy such a brand. The study offers theoretical implications for ingroup positivity and outgroup negativity research as well as managerial implications for managers and policy makers indicating how to improve marketing efforts and regulatory support to geographical origin labels.