Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist GeographiesPaul C. Adams, Steven D. Hoelscher, Karen E. Till U of Minnesota Press - 461 էջ A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos. |
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... Association of American Geographers . Although the sessions were organized on the occasion of Yi - Fu Tuan's retirement , the pa- pers presented there and the contents of this book are far removed from the usual " festschrift " fare of ...
... Association of American Geog- raphers 66 ( 1976 ) : 266-76 . More recently , Tuan has described his perspective as " systematic humanistic geography . " See Yi - Fu Tuan , xxviii Paul C. Adams , Steven Hoelscher , and Karen E. Till.
... Association of American Geographers 37 ( 1947 ) : 1-15 . It should also be mentioned that , as Mark Billinge pointed out , turgidity became the hallmark of more than one writer . Mark Billinge , " The Mandarin Dialect : An Essay on ...
... Association of American Geographers 86 ( 1996 ) : 1-20 . See also the very useful appraisal and call for greater attention to narrative in Stephen Daniels , " Arguments for a Humanistic Geography , " in The Future of Geography , ed ...
... American Studies , " in Mapping Ameri- can Culture , ed . Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner ( Iowa City ... Association of American Geographers , 1939 ) , 428-31 . This point is presented by a number of the essays in J. Nicholas ...
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Part II SEGMENTED WORLDS AND SELVES | 119 |
Part III MORALITIES AND IMAGINATION | 221 |
Part IV COSMOS VERSUS HEARTH | 317 |
Contributors | 441 |
INDEX | 447 |