Overview

Exploring John Berger’s political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critically engage with his work as a writer, critic, collaborator, playwright, filmmaker and artist. The contributors connect Berger’s work to cultural geography, including through a photo essay that articulates personal encounters with place, as well as discussion of his notion of “confabulation” and what it offers for writing cultural geographies. Each chapter delves into themes like Berger’s interest in questions of representation, migration, ethics and the limits of political action. Garlick and Sekulic underline Berger’s enduring relevance and resonance for contemporary academic, conceptual and worldly developments. In doing so, contributors – hailing from both within and beyond the ‘discipline’ of geography – emphasise and celebrate the value of cross-disciplinary dialogue, collaboration, and experimentation that crosses boundaries, begets conversations, and offers novel insights into our lived worlds and their processes.

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Author:   Ben Garlick (Independent Scholar) ,  Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art) ,  Dr. Leila Dawney ,  Dr. Joe Gerlach
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9781666947182

ISBN 10:   1666947180
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 July 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Preface: John Berger: A Geo-biography, Tom Overton Introduction: Geography with John Berger, Ben Garlick (Independent Scholar) and Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK) 1. The Geography of the Image: ‘Between Here and There’ – A Photo Essay, Agata Lulkowska (University of Staffordshire, UK) 2. Confabulations: A Geography without Clauses, Joe Gerlack and Thomas Jellis (University of Bristol, UK) 3. Out of Context: Place, Transcultural Communication, Decolonialism, and John Berger, Agata Lulkowska (University of Staffordshire, UK) 4. “A Question of Geography”: John Berger and the Limits of Place, Ben Garlick (Independent Scholar) 5. A Seventh Man as a Critical Spatial Praxis, Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK) 6. On Intellectual Generosity: John Berger’s Ethics, Leila Dawney (University of Exeter, UK) Index

Reviews

This sensitive and insightful companion to the work of John Berger brings his lifelong engagement with the experience of place into contact with contemporary theoretical debates. If geography is a field that 'multiplies our views onto the world', then this collection generously and often unexpectedly multiplies our understanding of Berger's work. * Joshua Sperling, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media, Oberlin College and Conservatory, USA *

Author Information

Ben Garlick is an independent scholar and formerly was senior lecturer in Cultural Geography at York St. John University, UK. Dubravka Sekulic is Senior Tutor and Programme Lead of MA City Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK.

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