I'm actually working on landscape representation and I am in a dead end definition with the term "institution".
I'm trying to shed ligth on a geographical approach of the relation between insitutional actors' representation of lanscape and other type of actors' representation of landscape. But what's fit in "institution" groups and what is outside this classification?
I think "Institution" is not appropriate but to be shure I have to define this term deeply.
Sociology and Social Anthropology. It is an important structural component of a society, A society is characterised by social organization with rules and regulations that the memebers of the soceity adhere, respect, give value and cooperate to make it functional. Very simple example; Marriage is an institution and etc.,
Possibly some what complicated term geographico-social institution might refer to variation in terms of structure and function of an institution (you can take the same example marraige or any other) that vary among different sectoin of the society across geographical space or even one can talk abouot spacio-temporal aspects of institution as well.
Have you read K. Olwig's papers on landscape? I think they may prove helpful regarding "the relation bet. institutional and other actors" In particular:
'Representation and alienation in the political land-scape' in Cultural Geographies
2005, 12:19-40
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