TY - BOOK AU - Johannessen,Lene M. TI - Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Lessons T2 - Spatial Practices SN - 9789004438002 AV - B105.P53 U1 - 304.2/309794 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - Brill | Rodopi, KW - Aesthetics KW - Place (Philosophy) KW - Place attachment KW - California KW - Space and time KW - Historical geography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Sojourn aesthetics : literary chorography -- The time of loss : Chavez Ravine : sonic excavations -- The time of ghosts : Chinese camp : Staging Chinese Camp -- The time of hope : letters from a 49er everyman : "will be home as soon as I can" -- The time of desire : the Winchester House : "this little world" -- The time of romance : Fort Ross : the "eventmentality" of Fort Ross -- Interrupted : nostalgia and time out of time -- Conclusion : tangled figurations : entangled figurations as site-specific history N2 - "This binary also speaks more generally to how we tend to conceive of the relation between place and space: As many scholars have pointed out, place often comes valued as "the sphere of the everyday, or real and valued practices," or "a locus of denial" trailing ideas of the "closed, coherent, integrated as authentic, as 'home', a secure retreat" (Massey 2005, 5-6). Doreen Massey's descriptions speak to our perceptions of a center, of a core toward which energy flows, and in so doing marking, in Michel de Certeau's words, "an instantaneous configuration of positions"-- UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004438002 ER -