Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities

by Stephen Daniels (Editor), Dydia DeLyser (Editor), J. Nicholas Entrikin (Editor)

This volume examines digital and participatory geographies, reflections on space and place in literature and the visual arts, geography's interactions with philosophy and history, and scientific exploration.

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

360 pages, Paperback

First published May 2, 2011

About the author

Stephen Daniels is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham where he has worked since 1980; since 2005 he has been Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's programme in Landscape and Environment. He has published widely on the history and theory of landscape imagery and design. His books include The Iconography of Landscape (1988) co-edited with Denis Cosgrove, Fields of Vision (1992) and Humphiy Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (1999), and the exhibition catalogues Art of the Garden (2004) and Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain (2009).

Reviews

[Julien Luebbers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good essays in here on humanities and human geography. Some that I didnt like as much. Didnt read every one but Im counting this as complete

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting look at how various divisions of geography intersect with humanities disciplines. Read this for an upper-level graduate course in the digital humanities, and it brought many valuable insights to the table, especially about how forms of visual representation can bear ideological weight. Fascinating discussions about how philosophy and spatial analysis can potentially converge in productive ways. Many nuanced arguments and/or descriptions of creative projects that demonstrate how theory and practice can functionally intersect. Worth reading if you're creating a deep map, as we were for my course, although a great anthology to read if you're simply curious about current humanities-based geographical inquiry.