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Oilscapes of Louisiana

Neopragmatic Reflections on the Ambivalent Aesthetics of Landscape Constructions

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Authors:
  1. Olaf Kühne

    1. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  2. Lara Koegst

    1. Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  3. Karsten Berr

    1. Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  • This book highlights the meaning of the petrochemical industry in Louisiana in a landscape theoretic context
  • This book offers new insights into landscape aesthetic contexts
  • This Book provides a contribution to neopragmatic research in the context of complex spatial synthesis

Part of the book series: RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft (RFSRL)

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Oilscapes are to be understood as an aestheticized synthesis of objects of extraction, distribution, processing, and consumption of petroleum and petroleum-derived products. Based on the concept of neopragmatic landscape research, this book addresses questions of the social construction of the relationship between the petrochemical industry and the landscape, as well as individual interpretations and evaluations in this regard. The particular focus is on exploring the possibilities and limits of aesthetic experience of oilscapes as well as the categorizations, interpretations, and evaluations of these aesthetic outcomes. In recourse to the neopragmatic tradition, to the thinking of Richard Rorty, the engagement with ‘sensory induced cognition' is carried out from the stance of irony, directed in particular at the discourse community possessing 'expert special knowledge', with a special focus on methods of representation that are innovative in the context of spatial science. The study area for assessing this approach is Louisiana (United States), which – being spatially quite diverse – has been intensively shaped for more than a century by the activities of the petrochemical industry, as well as its unintended health and ecological side effects.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 1-11

  3. Landscape Theory Approaches—The Theory of Three Landscapes and Neopragmatic Landscape Research

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 13-40

  4. Aesthetics and Aisthesis of Landscape

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 41-88

  5. Neopragmatic Synthesis

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 89-102

  6. Crude Oil and Natural Gas—Formation, Extraction, Distribution, and Processing

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 103-113

  7. Oilscapes—First Conceptual Approaches

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 115-117

  8. Oilscapes of Louisiana

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 119-186

  9. Media Representations of Oilscapes—An Exemplary Approach

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 187-197

  10. Experiencing the Oilscapes in Mode A and Mode B

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 199-210

  11. Contingent Oilscapes—Of Aesthetic Redescriptions and Inverted Landscapes

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 211-239

  12. Oilscapes—A Second and More Differentiated Conceptual Version

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 241-245

  13. Conclusion

    • Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr
    Pages 247-255
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Olaf Kühne

  • Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr

About the authors

Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne is Professor for Urban and Regional Development at the Tübingen University.

Lara Koegst, MA, is a research associate in the Urban and Regional Development Group at the Tübingen University.

Dr. Karsten Berr is a research associate in the Urban and Regional Development Group at the Tübingen University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Oilscapes of Louisiana

  • Book Subtitle: Neopragmatic Reflections on the Ambivalent Aesthetics of Landscape Constructions

  • Authors: Olaf Kühne, Lara Koegst, Karsten Berr

  • Series Title: RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43396-3

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-43395-6Published: 05 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-43396-3Published: 05 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2625-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-7009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 255

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural Geography, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general

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