New PDF release: Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters

By Elizabeth Straughan,Harriet Hawkins

ISBN-10: 1138546925

ISBN-13: 9781138546929

ISBN-10: 1409448010

ISBN-13: 9781409448013

Geographical Aesthetics locations the phrases 'aesthetics' and 'geography' lower than serious query jointly, responding either to the expanding calls from inside of geography to advance a 'geographical aesthetics', and a resurgence of interdisciplinary curiosity in conceptual and empirical questions round geoaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, in addition to the spatialities of the classy. regardless of taking on an identifiable position in the geographical mind's eye and sensibilities for hundreds of years, and having what's arguably a key position within the making of the trendy self-discipline, aesthetics is still a comparatively under-theorized box inside of geography. throughout 15 chapters Geographical Aesthetics brings jointly well timed commentaries via overseas, interdisciplinary students to transform historic family members among geography and aesthetics, and re-evaluate the way it is we'd comprehend aesthetics. In renewing aesthetics as a website of research, but additionally an analytic item wherein we will be able to take into consideration worldly encounters, Geographical Aesthetics provides a remodeling of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic.

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