Textures of place : exploring humanist geographies / Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Paul C.

Hoelscher, Steven D.

Till, Karen E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Place in context : rethinking humanist geographies / Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till

Introduction : landscapes of dominance and affection / David Ley

Fantasies in dark places : the cultural geography of the American movie palace / Karal Ann Marling

When less is more : absence and landscapes in a California ghost town / Dydia DeLyser

Sense of place as a positional good : locating Bedford in space and time / James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan

Reading the wetlands / William Howarth

Making a pet of nature / David Lowenthal

Landscape as a contested topos of place, community, and self / Kenneth R. Olwig

Introduction : segmented worlds and selves / John Paul Jones III

World and its identity crisis / Wilbur Zelinsky

Critical description of confused geographies / Edward Relph

Making up the tramp : toward a critical geosophy / Tim Cresswell

Peripatetic imagery and peripatetic sense of place / Paul C. Adams

Fragmented individual and the academic realm

Michael Curry

Introduction : moralities and imagination / Anne Buttimer

Place, power, and the good / Robert D. Sack

Attending to the void : geography and madness / Patrick McGreevy

Gift of presence : the act of leaving artifacts at shrines, memorials, and other tragedies / Miles Richardson.

Reimagining national identity : "Chapters of Life" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin / Karen E. Till

Moral maps and moral places in the work of Francis Parkman / Jonathan M. Smith

Introduction : cosmos versus hearth / Yi-Fu Tuan

Geography's cosmos : the dream and the whole round earth / Denis Cosgrove

Bone-crones have no hearth : some women in the medieval wilderness / Marijane Osborn and Gillian R. Overing

But it's (not) supposed to feel like home : constructing the cosmopolitan hearth / April R. Veness

Conversing diversity : provincial cosmopolitanism and America's multicultural heritage / Steven Hoelscher

Body, self, and landscape : a geophilosophical inquiry into the place-world / Edward S. Casey

Geographer as humanist / J. Nicholas Entrikin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0816637563

0816637571

OCLC:

44446546