Geographical Imagination and the Authority of Images by Denis Cosgrove

Geographical Imagination and the Authority of Images by Denis Cosgrove

Geographical imagination and the authority of images collects three papers and an interview on the themes presented and discussed during the 2005 Hettner lectures. Cosgrove examines the roles that vision and imagination have played in shaping material and represented landscapes at scales ranging from the local and regional to the global and cosmic. The book presents substantive studies of cosmographic and global mapping, the picturesque tradition and suburban Los Angeles, and the use of 'Transpennine' England as a geographical art gallery. Embedded in these are theoretical and ethical reflections on the ways that we come to know the world, ourselves and each other through geographical engagements, especially when these are mediated through graphic images. The interview locates these themes within the context of Denis Cosgrove's development as a geographer and his response to debates within the discipline about the roles of imagination, culture and representation within geographies's humanities tradition.

Cosgrove, Denis: - Denis Cosgrove is professor in the department of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of many books, including Mappings, Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes, and High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice. William L. Fox is a writer, independent scholar, and poet. He is also the author of Approaching Nowhere, Observing in an Occupied Wilderness and Oblivion.

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ISBN 13	9783515088923
ISBN 10	351508892X
Title	Geographical Imagination and the Authority of Images
Author	Denis Cosgrove
Series	Hettner-Lectures
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Year published	2006-06-23
Number of pages	104
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