Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409448013)

Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding both to the increasing calls from within geography to develop a 'geographical aesthetics', and a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in conceptual and empirical questions around geoaesthetics, environmental aesthetics, as well as the spatialities of the aesthetic. Despite taking up an identifiable role within the geographical imagination and sensibilities for centuries, and having what is arguably a key place in the making of the modern discipline, aesthetics remains a relatively under-theorized field within geography. Across 15 chapters Geographical Aesthetics brings together timely commentaries by international, interdisciplinary scholars to rework historical relations between geography and aesthetics, and reconsider how it is we might understand aesthetics. In renewing aesthetics as a site of investigation, but also an analytic object through which we can think about worldly encounters, Geographical Aesthetics presents a reworking of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic.

Author: Elizabeth Straughan
ISBN-10: 1409448010
ISBN-13: 9781409448013
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d