Summary
Contents
Subject index
The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge is a critical inquiry into how Geography as a field of knowledge has been produced, re-produced, and re-imagined. It comprises three sections on Geographical Orientations, Geography’s Venues, and Critical Geographical Concepts and Controversies. The first provides an overview of the genealogy of ‘geography.' The second highlights the types of spatial settings and locations in which geographical knowledge has been produced. The third focuses on venues of primary importance in the historical geography of geographical thought.
Landscape
Landscape
Introduction
‘Vernacular’ landscapes
The landscape: what is it? In due course this chapter will give one specialist answer to this question, by focusing upon how landscape has been defined and used by human geographers. However, to contextualise this, and to offer a particular point of entry for readers, I'd like to begin with some more general, expansive observations. From the reading I've done, and from the many conversations about landscape I've had over the years, with colleagues from geography and other disciplines, with cohorts of geography students, and, importantly also, with friends, family and various passing strangers, I've come to the conclusion (at least for now) that ‘landscape’ is usually and most often understood in three different ways. I am conscious that these may seem obvious ...
- Loading...
