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Florida Geographer

College

Science

Department

Geosciences

Keywords

cultural imagination, place relations, sense of place, human–environment, South Florida, Biscayne Bay, Everglades, climate change, sea level rise, king tides, urbanization, multiculturalism, migration, detention, environmental change, regional identity, landscape photography, visual culture

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

A multitude of Floridas exist in the collective, cultural imagination. Our relationships with each are complex and varied. From hikers wading waist deep with gators in the Fakahatchee Strand to suburban yards dotted with plastic pink flamingos, the people of Florida possess myriad, ever-evolving relationships to place. Nowhere is this more apparent than in South Florida, where high rises tower above Biscayne Bay and the Wall Street of the South while the land sinks below the weight of climate change and king tides. Imagine the multicultural tango that is the Magic City juxtaposed with the outflow of the River of Grass and an immigrant detention facility. What, exactly, is this place, and, what, exactly, has it arisen from? Two Florida artists have recently published photo journals that work to answer these questions, bringing the dynamics of the human and environmental struggles that shape South Florida to light.

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