ABSTRACT

Discourses of landscape and justice entail tensions, claims and conflicts over landed rights and identities; they reveal how landscape comes into being through land stewardship that responds to these tensions and interactions. This article critically traces the drivers of custom and change, and their impact on the land in the context of community life in Greece, starting from, and referring back to, landscape. The relationship of Greeks to land and landscape tends to defy standard legal ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ regarding sustainable and democratic stewardship of landscape as a common good; it is rather shaped through the negation of top-down legislation of various sorts, creating room for anarchic landscapes, that may contribute to community-building, but are also often wrought by narrowly defined, short-term interests. Such practices may operate to the detriment of social needs and to rights, but also claim room and prospect for community survival, under dire conditions of contemporary socio-economic crisis.

摘要

风景和正义的话语引发了对土地权利和身份的紧张、主张和冲突；它们揭示了景观是如何通过应对这些紧张局势和相互作用的土地管理而形成的。本文批判性地追溯了习俗和变化的驱动因素，以及它们在希腊社区生活背景下对土地的影响，从景观开始并回溯到景观。希腊人与土地和景观的关系往往违背标准的法律“理性”和“逻辑”，即景观的可持续和民主管理是一种共同利益；它是通过否定各种自上而下的立法来塑造的，为无政府主义的景观创造空间，这可能有助于社区建设，但也往往是由狭隘的短期利益造成的。