Last week I visited a friend of mine, Luke, who lives in a co-op in New Cross, South London. The Sanford Co-op has been around since the early 1970s and is known for its sustainable energy use and communal atmosphere.
Up until last week everyone has claimed a bike parking space next to a tree, […]
Filed under: city, gardens, future, caves, environmental planning on June 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
UNDERGROUND
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference November 6-7, 2008
Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Call for Papers
I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be
kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for
forty years and never open […]
Filed under: caves, goals on June 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
As discussed earlier, psychological ownership can exist in the absence of legal ownership and occurs in an often lengthy and iterative process involving investing the self and making personal sacrifices on behalf of a cave. When an individual’s sense of self is closely linked to the place, a desire to maintain, protect, or enhance that […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
In caving, stewardship is an ethic that embodies cooperative planning and management of environmental resources with cave conservancies, communities, individual cavers and caving groups to actively engage in the prevention of cave damage and the promotion of conservation.
Overall, environmental stewardship research tends to focus on it as a relationship between people and objects, and less […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Commercial cave tours are mostly walk through, dramatically lit and impressive rooms meant to inform visitors of the value in caves. Although caving is not a widely commercial venture it does have a small percentage of “wild cave tours”. These type of tours cost upwards of US$50 a person and are geared towards physically fit […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Meanings are not inherent in the nature of objects. The symbols and meanings that comprise landscapes reflect what people in cultural groups define to be proper and improper relationships among themselves and between themselves and the physical environment. For non-cavers in the United States, symbols and meanings related to caves may arise from Plato’s allegory, […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the past year I have interviewed and interacted with people who explore caves in the northeastern United States. This grounded theory research originally began with a broad question and a sub-question, respectively: How do cavers think and feel about caving, access to caves and the practice of caving by others? How does the physical […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
