Envisioning landscapes, making worlds : geography and the humanities / edited by Stephen Daniels [and others].

Other author Daniels, Stephen.
Other author American Association of Geographers.
Format Book
Publication InfoMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Descriptionxxxii, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Why America is called America / Franco Farinelli -- Above the dead cities / Derek Gregory -- Digital cartographies and medieval geographies / Keith D. Lilley -- Mapping the taboo / Gunnar Olsson -- Choros, chora and the question of landscape / Kenneth R. Olwig -- Thematic cartography and the study of American history / Susan Schulten -- Do places have edges? a geo-philosophical inquiry / Edward S. Casey -- Race, mobility and the humanities: a geosophical approach / Tim Cresswell -- The world in plain view / J. Nicholas Entrikin -- Courtly geography: nature, authority and civility in early eighteenth-century France / Michael Hefferman -- Darwinian landscapes / David Livingstone -- Travel and the domination of space in the European imagination / Anthony Pagden -- The good inherit the earth / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Putting Pablo Neruda's Alturas de Macchu Picchu in its places / Jim Cocola -- Great balls of fire: envisioning the brilliant meteor of 1783 / Stephen Daniels -- Reading landscapes and telling stories: geography, the humanities and environmental history / Diana K. Davis -- Participatory historical geography? Shaping and failing to shape social memory at an Oklahoma monument / Dydia DeLyser -- Still-life, after-life, nature morte: W.G. Sebald and the demands of landscape / Jessica Dubow -- The texture of space: desire and displacement in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman of the dunes / Matthew Gandy -- Restoration: synoptic reflections / David Lowenthal -- Overlapping ambiguities, disciplinary perspectives, and metaphors of looking: reflections on a landscape photograph / Joan M. Schwartz -- Inverting perspective: icons' performative geographies / Veronica della Dora -- Literary geography: the novel as a spatial event / Sheila Hones -- Materializing vision: performing a high-rise view / Jane M. Jacobs, Stephen Cairns, and Ignaz Strebel -- Technician of light: Patrick Geddes and the optic of geography / Fraser MacDonald -- Deserted places, remote voices: performing landscape / Mike Pearson -- Photography and its circulations / Gillian Rose -- Beyond the power of art to represent? Narratives and performances of the Arctic in the 1630s / Julie Sanders -- Navigating the Northwest Passage / Kathryn Yusoff.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010028082
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