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Author:   Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Dydia DeLyser (Louisiana State University, USA) ,  J. Nicholas Entrikin (UCLA, USA) ,  Doug Richardson (Association of American Geographers, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9780415589772

ISBN 10:   0415589770
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   28 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Mapping 1. Why America is Called America 2. Above the Dead Cities 3. Digital Cartographies and Medieval Geographies 4. Mapping the Taboo 5. ‘Choros, Chora’ and the Question of Landscape 6. Thematic Cartography and the Study of American History Part 2: Reflecting 7. Do Places Have Edges? A Geo-Philosophical Inquiry 8. Race, Mobility and the Humanities: A Geosophical Approach 9. The World in Plain View 10. Courtly Geography: Nature, Authority and Civility in Early Eighteenth Century France 11. Darwinian Landscapes 12. Travel and the Domination of Space in the European Imagination 13. The Good Inherit the Earth Part 3: Representing 14. Putting Pablo Neruda’s ‘Alturas de Machu Picchu’ In Its Places 15. Great Balls of Fire: Envisioning the Brilliant Meteor of 1783 16. Reading Landscapes and Telling Stories: Geography, the Humanities and Environmental History 17. Participatory Historical Geography? Shaping and Failing to Shape Social Memory at an Oklahoma Monument 18. Still-Life, After-Life ‘Nature Morte’: W.G. Sebald and the Demands of Landscape 19. The Texture of Space: Desire and Displacement in Hiroshi Teshigahara’s ‘Woman of the Dunes’ 20. Restoration: Synoptic Reflections 21. Overlapping Ambiguities, Disciplinary Perspectives and Metaphors of Looking: Reflections on a Landscape Photograph Part 4: Performing 22. Inverting Perspective: Icons’ Performative Geographies 23. Literary Geography: The Novel as a Spatial Event 24. Materialising Vision: Performing a High-Rise View 25. Technician of Light: Patrick Geddes and the Optic of Geography 26. Deserted Places, Remote Voices: Performing Landscape 27. Photography and Its Circulations 28. Beyond the Power of Art to Represent?: Narratives and Performances of the Arctic in the 1630s 29. Navigating the Northwest Passage

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This book provides powerful evidence of geography's intellectual and moral affiliations with the humanities. It boasts an impressive cast of contributors, with elegant and compelling essays that show why creativity, imagination and reflection matter to geographers, and why the insights of geography matter to the humanities as never before. Professor Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. This book strikes a chord in geography by vigorously promoting the significance of the powers of spatial and visual representation in evoking landscapes and places. For the humanities, it elegantly maps the variety of ways in which geographical concepts are helping respond to the so-called crisis of representation by grounding texts, performances, and visual art in landscapes and places. Professor John Agnew, UCLA, USA. Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities is a remarkable and timely edited volume. George F. Roberson and Richard W. Wilkie, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Author Information

Stephen Daniels is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK. Dydia DeLyser is Associate Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University, USA. J. Nicholas Entrikin is Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization at the University of Notre Dame. Douglas Richardson is Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers, USA.

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