Greg Niedt | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
While the role of time and emotion have been acknowledged in linguistic and semiotic landscapes research, the
particular qualities of tempo and affect have rarely been discussed directly. This case study from an Italian-American festival in
South Philadelphia, a diverse and changing urban neighborhood, demonstrates how the two qualities work together to influence the
discursive construction of identity for residents as they interact with the space. Ethnographic observation and photographs from
the two days of the festival, as well as interviews with locals, frame the discussion of how to explore the landscape through this
lens. The paper encourages researchers to devote more attention to the abstract qualities of landscapes, and serves as a starting
point for critical examinations of a place and the distribution of capital among its occupants.
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