tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61895209429823321312024-02-19T05:13:20.527-08:00Mapping Landscape OwnershipsA conversation to do with placedness and the cultural dynamics that shape places and our cultural realitiesREDtreeWATCHERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06660755779941840090noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189520942982332131.post-2124982625534668072009-04-25T17:42:00.000-07:002009-04-27T22:11:52.211-07:00Stakes, Shares & Ownerships<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR15XEYISWKzJ_1f_Jbmxug07OrT5WBie3f7ksgjqKjCYf8EBWRNp6OLDB3H6iNGpiWBNevVTu6yJjZfdL20AUNVF_Q_8NNZklSldBjvxhU6YlCgs-4X4_WJLcDd1W3r5QVsR0pyioT7Q/s1600-h/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_5.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR15XEYISWKzJ_1f_Jbmxug07OrT5WBie3f7ksgjqKjCYf8EBWRNp6OLDB3H6iNGpiWBNevVTu6yJjZfdL20AUNVF_Q_8NNZklSldBjvxhU6YlCgs-4X4_WJLcDd1W3r5QVsR0pyioT7Q/s320/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_5.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328845697282090066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Click on an image to enlarge</span></span><br /></div>In the 1970s it was fashionable to start to consider <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“stakeholders” </span>in planning and management processes. Back then it was intended to be an inclusive notion but very quickly some of these stakeholders began to assert precedence over others <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">– they demanded ranking and privileges to match.</span> Very quickly their concerns were accommodated and as a consequence before anyone could be considered a stakeholder they needed to demonstrate a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">‘legitimate interest’ </span><span style="font-style: italic;">– a pecuniary interest, an ownership, a potential loss of something, whatever</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Stakeholdership</span></span></span> quite quickly became at once an elastic concept and an idea in retreat – <span style="font-style: italic;">more often than not, one that served some more than others</span>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyr6uZdo09EpgljZGEnEh07Wj86zK36NxzdaBcMBaixGQkrRW1CSjfxJnQTg3VAR0QJ1yeHsJM3YEKLPdxh5ZxNKxZmCXXWRteU2unD3GuvQoqbnU3hLRJrXsUCx3HwQeLh6FZUYLdCg/s1600-h/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_4.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyr6uZdo09EpgljZGEnEh07Wj86zK36NxzdaBcMBaixGQkrRW1CSjfxJnQTg3VAR0QJ1yeHsJM3YEKLPdxh5ZxNKxZmCXXWRteU2unD3GuvQoqbnU3hLRJrXsUCx3HwQeLh6FZUYLdCg/s320/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_4.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328845691840249842" border="0" /></a>Rarely does the idea of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">‘obligation’ </span>come into the stakeholder equation but <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">‘rights’ </span>are regularly asserted <span style="font-style: italic;">– albeit so often self defined</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Stakeholdership</span></span></span> is an untidy and contentious idea to say the least! It is especially so if you are left out of the loop.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However there is another way, and more inclusive way, to think about all this. If we think about landscapes as having <span style="font-weight: bold;">Communities of Ownership and Interest</span><span style="font-style: italic;">– layers of cognitive owners including stakeholders – </span>we might then begin an interesting conversation with each other in regard to resource management.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sXyLeDl6qitIWCLFxPxxR4J2x32OastpW2fjDm2VQJu8vhBh9qr5zE4RfXHf8ArGwifXoxVFc0qAOQz-aGu0WVZDnSzrPJaGPteiysA003t_I4n8CpEFlnXMByEygLUYYZ5en11zxOo/s1600-h/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_3.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sXyLeDl6qitIWCLFxPxxR4J2x32OastpW2fjDm2VQJu8vhBh9qr5zE4RfXHf8ArGwifXoxVFc0qAOQz-aGu0WVZDnSzrPJaGPteiysA003t_I4n8CpEFlnXMByEygLUYYZ5en11zxOo/s320/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_3.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328845682755097218" border="0" /></a>We do not need to invent and then market this idea as if it were some new idea as clearly landscapes have an extraordinary Communities of Ownership and Interest <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">(<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">COI</span></span></span>).</span> All that really needs to be done is identify the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">COI</span></span></span>, acknowledge its presence and begin the conversation! That might seem to be a job for a consultant but not really <span style="font-style: italic;">– they have not delivered yet.</span> It <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">isn</span></span></span>’t rocket science! It is simply about making a list and being prepared to continually add to it and act upon it.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYM8j3jQ1USpy3JLTyaPbIUEigQ40CmQw7XjL5QtbGjKOg6N4sZE4axu2MIvKRH28-ZdqWJRiWsJdSno5-iyj9jbCHzOPG-E7sydv_8j8qyNOIUwlwW3u8lK0VwvFcDVVvnfZw_ENwBCA/s1600-h/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_2.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYM8j3jQ1USpy3JLTyaPbIUEigQ40CmQw7XjL5QtbGjKOg6N4sZE4axu2MIvKRH28-ZdqWJRiWsJdSno5-iyj9jbCHzOPG-E7sydv_8j8qyNOIUwlwW3u8lK0VwvFcDVVvnfZw_ENwBCA/s320/CULTURALlandscapeTAZ_2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328845677614385906" border="0" /></a>Mapping the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">‘ownerships’ </span>shared in landscapes – <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">cultural landscapes </span>– enriches them rather than diluting or downgrading them. Nonetheless the tensions between Freehold Property, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">'The Crown',</span> Cultural Property and the Public Domain will not dissolve but they may be managed in more productive ways when these layers of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">‘ownerships’ </span>are acknowledged alongside all others in the cognitive ownership layering.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Do landscapes shape culture or do our cultural realities shape our landscapes?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGO2cLHDVhQphMXOEYyjt4csvihB-0EuBx60EPWr-A-BetRd5y_q_pxwAvbc1-85_eHyWmInYEpFnJ2O5UmQRawWIAcWM37ycvCAUKFuLZBH3R1ER3LxDqEaTwK8h8O8cZOqVg9njW_c/s1600-h/CULTURElandscapeTAZ_1.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGO2cLHDVhQphMXOEYyjt4csvihB-0EuBx60EPWr-A-BetRd5y_q_pxwAvbc1-85_eHyWmInYEpFnJ2O5UmQRawWIAcWM37ycvCAUKFuLZBH3R1ER3LxDqEaTwK8h8O8cZOqVg9njW_c/s320/CULTURElandscapeTAZ_1.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328845672450958738" border="0" /></a>Acknowledging a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">COI</span></span></span> is a cultural mindset. It is not a bureaucratic process – <span style="font-style: italic;">rather it</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">participatory</span> process</span>. The cognitive ownership model demonstrates the richness of places –<span style="font-style: italic;"> landscapes here </span>– as an alternative to the poverty of perspective embedded in adversarial and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">unconsultative</span></span></span> bureaucratic planning processes.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">An audit of cognitive ownerships would reveal the confluences and conflicts in ownership claims. If we abandon the notion that there can be a <span style="font-weight: bold;">hierarchical structure </span>to the ownership of place, – <span style="font-style: italic;">landscapes here again</span> – it is possible that managers of cultural property can begin:<br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >• </span>To work towards accommodating claims in the context of coexistent cognitive ownerships;<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >• </span>To resolve conflicts and tensions over usage and access; and<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >• </span>To establish appropriate planning processes and management systems.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who are these cognitive owners? </span>The simple answer is almost everyone but a list of them must be inclusive rather than exclusive or privileged and it must be an <span style="font-style: italic;">‘open list’</span>. More important than knowing <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">'who'</span> is knowing what their interest and ownerships are and the cultural context in which an ownership is claimed. Knowing that allows for the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">accommodation</span> of inclusive and holistic planning and management processes.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ray Norman 2008<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">IMAGE SOURCE GOOGLE</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">earth</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">YOU TOO CAN VISIT <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">CONTESTED</span> LANDSCAPES VIA </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">GOOGLE</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">earth</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Comment Welcomed </span></span><br /></div></div>REDtreeWATCHERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06660755779941840090noreply@blogger.com0