Extraction and submersion, surface and depth. Using photographic practice to explore literary and folkloric imaginings of post-industrial landscape.

提取和浸没、表面和深度。

• 批准号: 2887438
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887438
• 关键词: Extraction; submersion; surface; depth.; Using

This project is a crea>ve and cri>cal enquiry into the buried and submerged post-industrial landscapes ofMid-Wales and the West Midlands, linked through the wri>ngs of author Francis BreF Young (1884-1954). Driven by a concern with the now inaccessible landscape, submerged by water in reservoir sites inthe Welsh areas of Vyrnwy, Tryweryn and Elan, buried through in-fill in mines in Dudley, the enquiry willexplore how their histories and absences are made visible, traversing these con>ngent landscapesthrough archival research, literary and folkloric inves>ga>on, and photographic prac>ce.Francis BreF Young wrote a series of 'Mercian' novels set along the aqueduct route from the Elan Valleyto Birmingham, having witnessed the vast work in progress as a child, with fic>onalised accounts of thedam build in two novels (Young & Young, 1913, Young 1932). The Elan reservoirs made by theBirmingham Corpora>on, 1893-1904, evidence one of many instances of water collec>on in Wales byEnglish ci>es, from the 1890s through to the controversial compulsory flooding of Tryweryn in the 1960s.Each instance of flooding led to the displacement of communi>es and fundamental changes to thelandscape, offering an enquiry into the rela>onship between capitalist produc>on and picturesque andsublime landscape. Young's novels are notable in their evoca>ve and specific landscapes, a non-humanperspec>ve opening an understanding of the post-human landscape (McCully, 1996). Young's asser>onthat the building of the reservoir creates a doubling of the natural beauty of the landscape, in themirrored expanse of surface water, highlights the complexi>es of meaning in a technologically producedshi]ing landscape, now tourist site, whose ends and beginnings point to our current ecological crisis.Whilst there has been some enquiry into the geographies of his Black Country novels (Jay, 1975) and ashort chapter on the haunted landscapes of Undergrowth and others (Valen>ne, 2017), these lack closereading, with no geographic inves>ga>on into the dam novels, which provide a rich basis for place-basedenquiry.

这个项目是对威尔士中部和西米德兰兹被掩埋和淹没的后工业景观的一个创造性和批判性的调查，通过作家弗朗西斯布里夫杨（1884-1954）的作品联系起来。由于对现在无法进入的景观的关注，威尔士地区的Vyrnwy，Tryweryn和Elan的水库被水淹没，通过达德利的矿井填充物被掩埋，调查将探索他们的历史和缺席是如何变得可见的，通过档案研究，文学和民俗研究穿越这些令人信服的历史，弗朗西斯·布雷夫·扬写了一系列“麦西亚”小说，故事发生在沿着从伊兰谷到伯明翰的输水管道上，他小时候目睹了大量的工程建设，在两部小说中对大坝的建设进行了虚构的描述（Young & Young，1913，Young，1932）。伯明翰公司在1893-1904年建造的埃兰水库，是从19世纪90年代到20世纪60年代有争议的Tryweryn强制性洪水泛滥期间，英国人在威尔士收集水资源的众多实例之一。每一次洪水泛滥都导致社区的迁移和景观的根本变化。探讨了资本主义生产与风景如画的壮丽景观之间的关系。杨的小说以其独特的意象和景观而著称，这种非人性的视角开启了对后人类景观的理解（麦卡利，1996）。扬断言，水库的修建使地表水的广阔无垠增加了一倍的自然景观之美，这突出了一个由技术创造的航运景观的复杂意义，现在是旅游景点，其终点和起点指向我们当前的生态危机。（杰伊，1975）和矮树丛和其他人闹鬼的风景的短章（瓦伦，2017），这些缺乏细读，没有地理研究到大坝小说，这为基于地点的调查提供了丰富的基础。