Open AccessMAPAS, IMAGINARIOS Y MEMORIA AMBIENTAL EN ARGENTINA / Maps, imaginary and environmental memory in Argentina
Author(s) -
Verónica Hollman
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
geografares/geografares : revista do mestrado e do departamento de geografia, centro de ciências humanas e naturais, universidade federal do espirito santo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-3709
pISSN - 1518-2002
DOI - 10.7147/geo17.8057
Subject(s) - humanities , geography , philosophy
While research on social ideas of nature focused on the discursive side of environmental rhetoric during the last decade\udof the twentieth century, the visual turn has introduced the analysis of its visual facet: the study of the visual representation\udof nature in photographs, films, paintings and media among many other image-based media. However, scarce\udattention has received the study of what is provoked by environmental images as well as how they shape our imagination\udand memory of environmental issues.\udBased on the analysis of mental maps created by 215 subjects -all of them students of the undergraduate programs of\udthe Faculty of Humanities at Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Province (Argentina) in\ud2013- as the starting point to identify images that have become constitutive environmental memory, the article discusses\udthe role of environmental images in shaping both our ways of looking to nature and our understanding of environmental\udissues