Textures Of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies

✍ Scribed by Paul Adams

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 496
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Geography/ Cultural Studies Essays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography. 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 iconography-to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos. Contributors: Anne Buttimer, U College Dublin; Edward S. Casey, SUNY Stony Brook; Denis Cosgrove, UCLA; Tim Cresswell, U of Wales, Aberystwyth; Michael Curry, UCLA; Dydia DeLyser, Louisiana State U; James S. Duncan, U of Cambridge; Nancy G. Duncan, U of Cambridge; J. Nicholas Entrikin, UCLA; William Howarth, Princeton U; John Paul Jones III, U of Kentucky; David Ley, U of British Columbia; David Lowenthal, U College London; Karal Ann Marling, U of Minnesota; Patrick McGreevy, Clarion U; Kenneth R. Olwig, U of Trondheim, Norway; Marijane Osborn, UC Davis; Gillian R. Overing, Wake Forest U; Edward Relph, U of Toronto; Miles Richardson, Louisiana State U; Robert D. Sack, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Jonathan M. Smith, Texas A&M U; Yi-Fu Tuan, U of Wisconsin, Madison; April R. Veness, U of Delaware; and Wilbur Zelinsky, Pennsylvania State U. Paul C. Adams is assistant professor of geography at Texas A & M University. Steven Hoelscher is assistant professor of American studies and geography at the University of Texas, Austin. Karen E. Till is assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
PLACE IN CONTEXT: Rethinking Humanist Geographies......Page 14
Part I. LANDSCAPES OF DOMINANCE AND AFFECTION......Page 36
INTRODUCTION: Landscapes of Dominance and Affection......Page 38
FANTASIES IN DARK PLACES: The Cultural Geography of the American Movie Palace......Page 43
WHEN LESS IS MORE: Absence and Landscape in a California Ghost Town......Page 59
SENSE OF PLACE AS A POSITIONAL GOOD: Locating Bedford in Space and Time......Page 76
READING THE WETLANDS......Page 90
MAKING A PET OF NATURE......Page 119
LANDSCAPE AS A CONTESTED TOPOS OF PLACE, COMMUNITY, AND SELF......Page 128
Part II. SEGMENTED WORLDS AND SELVES......Page 154
INTRODUCTION: Segmented Worlds and Selves......Page 156
THE WORLD AND ITS IDENTITY CRISIS......Page 164
THE CRITICAL DESCRIPTION OF CONFUSED GEOGRAPHIES......Page 185
MAKING UP THE TRAMP: Toward a Critical Geosophy......Page 202
PERIPATETIC IMAGERY AND PERIPATETIC SENSE OF PLACE......Page 221
THE FRAGMENTED INDIVIDUAL AND THE ACADEMIC REALM......Page 242
Part III. MORALITIES AND IMAGINATION......Page 256
INTRODUCTION: Moralities and Imagination......Page 258
PLACE, POWER, AND THE GOOD......Page 267
ATTENDING TO THE VOID: Geography and Madness......Page 281
THE GIFT OF PRESENCE: The Act of Leaving Artifacts at Shrines, Memorials, and Other Tragedies......Page 292
REIMAGINING NATIONAL IDENTITY: "Chapters of Life" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin......Page 308
MORAL MAPS AND MORAL PLACES IN THE WORK OF FRANCIS PARKMAN......Page 335
Part IV. COSMOS VERSUS HEARTH......Page 352
INTRODUCTION: Cosmos versus Hearth......Page 354
GEOGRAPHY'S COSMOS: The Dream and the Whole Round Earth......Page 361
BONE-CRONES HAVE NO HEARTH: Some Women in the Medieval Wilderness......Page 375
BUT IT'S (NOT) SUPPOSED TO FEEL LIKE HOME: Constructing the Cosmopolitan Hearth......Page 390
CONVERSING DIVERSITY: Provincial Cosmopolitanism and America's Multicultural Heritage......Page 410
BODY, SELF, AND LANDSCAPE: A Geophilosophical Inquiry into the Place-World......Page 438
GEOGRAPHER AS HUMANIST......Page 461
Contributors......Page 476
B......Page 482
C......Page 483
D......Page 484
F......Page 485
H......Page 486
I......Page 487
L......Page 488
M......Page 489
N......Page 490
P......Page 491
R......Page 492
S......Page 493
T......Page 494
W......Page 495
Z......Page 496

✦ Subjects

Науки о Земле;География;Гуманитарная география;