Professor, Geography and Tourism Studies
PhD (Queen’s University)
MA (University of British Columbia)
BA (University of British Columbia)
Office: MC C331
Phone: 905-688-5550 x 4416
Email: michael.ripmeester@brocku.ca
New book co-edited by Michael Ripmeester and Matthew Rofe (University of South Australia).
Geographers – and others – have been long aware that landscapes are neither natural or neutral. This is particularly true of landscapes of memory. Powerful groups inscribe such landscapes with both a preferred vision of the past and with sets of idealized societal values, and morays. Yet, and despite the authoritative weight such landscapes carry, they can be challenged. Even before the monument topplings of 2020, groups across the globe were challenging official memory discourses. This volume offers case studies of what might be considered global iconoclasm. Drawing upon original international case studies, this monograph critically engages with and reveals the dynamics of landscape contestation. From the Tsunami Museum of Banda Aceh to the echoes of Mussolini’s Fascist Italy by way of the decolonization of sites in Australia, New Zealand, Colombia and Africa the processes of landscape contestation are innovatively teased out by established and newly emerging scholars.
See more: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-43691-9
Affiliations:
- Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI)
- Niagara Community Observatory
- MA in Popular Culture
Field: Historical Geography/Cultural Geography
- Geographies of popular memory
- Geography and ethnohistory
- Historical and cultural geography
- Historical geographies of First Nations in Ontario
- Historical Geographies of Native – Euro – Canadian relationships in 19th century Canada
- Landscape and Identity
- geographies of private green space
- mnemonic landscapes
- wine and identity
- culture and economy
- Ripmeester, M. and M. Rofe (2024) Global Iconoclasm: Contesting “Official” Mnemonic Landscapes (Cham: Springer Nature).
- Johnston, R. and M. Ripmeester (2024) Meaningful Pasts: historical narratives, heritage landscapes, and everyday lives in Niagara (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
- Ripmeester, M. and R. Johnston (2024) “Do we need to topple Watson? Global Iconoclasm: Contesting “Official” Mnemonic Landscapes” in M. Ripmeester and M. Rofe (eds.) Global Iconoclasm: Contesting “Official” Mnemonic Landscapes (Cham: Springer Nature).
- Rofe, M. and M. Ripmeester, (2024) Guest editing journal special issues: triumphs, tribulations and tips to maximise the former and minimise the latter in I. Hay, G. Butler, and G. Szil. How to Edit and Manage a Successful Scholarly Journal (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar): 47-58.
- Rofe, M. and M. Ripmeester, (2023) Memorial landscapes and contestation: destabilising artefacts of stability. Landscape Research 48(4)5: 609-614.
- Rofe, M. and M. Ripmeester, (Guest Editors) (2023) Special Issue: Memorial Landscapes and Contestation. Landscape Research 48.5.
- M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (eds.) (2013) The World of Niagara Wines (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
- M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (2013) Introduction in M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (eds.) The World of Niagara Wines(Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
- Ripmeester, M and R. Johnson (2013) New wine in old wineskins: marketing wine as agricultural heritage in M. Ripmeester, P. Mackintosh, and C. Fullerton (eds.) The World of Niagara Wines (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
- Ripmeester, M. (2013) Eroded by policy: the demise of manufacturing, the rise of creativity, and the intangible culture of working people in St. Catharines, ON. Sharing Cultures – Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Sérgio Lira, Rogério Amoêda, Cristina Pinheiro (eds.) (Greenlines Institute: Barcelos, Portugal).
- Ripmeester, M. (2011) Obliterating intangibles: deindustrialization, the creative economy and the erasure of blue collar identity in St. Catharines, ON.Sharing Cultures 2011, S. S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro (eds.) (Greenlines Institute, Barcelos: Portugal) 541-551.
- Ripmeester, M. (2010) Missing memories, missing spaces: the Missing Plaques Project and Toronto’s public past, City, Culture and Society 1(4) 185-191.
- Johnston, R. and M. Ripmeester (2010) “That big statue of whoever: memory, landscape, and identity in the Niagara region. Placing Memory / Remembering Place, J. Opp and J. Walsh (eds.) (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).
- Johnston, R, and M. Ripmeester (2010) A Promise Set in Stone: St. Catharines honours a Common Soldier in Niagara in Pieces, Barry Grant and Joan Nicks (eds.) (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press) 25-43.
- Ripmeester, M and Russell Johnston (2010) New wine into old narratives: constructing wine as intangible heritage in the Niagara Region, Canada,Constructing Intangible Heritage . S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro, and F. Olivera (Greenlines Institute: Barcelos, Portugal).
- Ripmeester, M. and R. Johnston (2010) Sustaining Identity: Heritage Development and Identity Construction in the Niagara Region, Canada.”HERITAGE 2010. S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro, and F. Olivera. (Greenlines Institute, Barcelos, Portugal).
- Johnston, R. and M. Ripmeester (2009) Awake anon the tales of valour: The career of an urban war memorial. The Canadian Geographer 53(4) 404-426.
- Ripmeester, M. (2009) The Lawn. Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. R. Hutchinson and M. Crang (eds.) Sage Publications.
- Ripmeester, M. and R. Johnston (2009) Wine as intangible heritage: preliminary thoughts on meaning and landscape in the Niagara Region, Canada. Sharing Cultures 2009, S. Lira, R. Amoeda, C. Pinheiro, and F. Olivera (Greenlines Institute, Barcelos, Portugal) 585-593.
- Johnston, R and M. Ripmeester. (2007) A monument’s work is never done: the Watson monument, memory, and forgetting in a small Canadian city.International Journal of Heritage Studies. 13(2) 117-135.
GEOG 1F90 Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 2P06 Cultural and Historical Geography
GEOG 3F97 Vancouver Field Course
GEOG 4P50 Critical Analysis of Urban and Economic Geographies
GEOG 4P71 Research Themes in Cultural and Social Geography
GEOG 5P02 Methodologies for the Critical Examination of Geographical Issues
- Authors explore contested monuments at workshop led by Brock researcher. The Brock News
- As downtown renewal continues, Brock forum lets residents weigh in on future steps. The Brock News
- Downtown discussions. The Brock News
- Off the Rack: Ideas, July 8, The Toronto Star
- Decaying Statue Stirs Debate, The St. Catharine Standard
- Authors chronicle Niagara’s wine industry, The St. Catharines Standard
- CCOVI lecture examines Niagara attitudes about wine, The Brock News
- Research Q & A: Heritage, identity and the Niagara Grape and Wine Industry, CCOVI News
- CCOVI Lecture Series: Memory in a Bottle: Heritage, Identity and Wine in Niagara