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Zusatztext 'Geographical Aesthetics burns and blisters. A startling collection of essays centered on aesthetics and space! the book ignites! showering sparks and little fires of provocation for a more lively aesthetics to take hold. The essays are historically aware and politically attuned! indeed! the book is a thorough treatment of the historical and political! a distribution of space! time and politics in encounters! engagements! movements and creative practices. The chapters engage a variety of topics ranging from cosplay to border activism; landscape art; disability; geologies; science; and agriculture. In this! Hawkins and Straughan have expertly brought together fascinating interrogations of the tissues! textures! tendrils! surfaces! depths! volumes and atmospheres of the imagination! creative expression! and the sensible.' Peter Adey! Royal Holloway University of London! UK 'This carefully-crafted work interrogates how aesthetics is politicized! spatialized! thought! and felt. Seamlessly! synthetically! Hawkins! Straughan and colleagues critically and creatively analyse elements of the aesthetic in geographical encounters that reinvigorate a geography of surfaces. The effect is to demonstrate the importance and utility of a richly geo-aesthetic understanding of the world.' Elaine Stratford! University of Tasmania! Australia Informationen zum Autor Harriet Hawkins is a Senior Lecturer in Historical and Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway University of London, UK and Elizabeth Straughan is an Honorary Research Associate in Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. Klappentext Bringing together timely commentaries by international, interdisciplinary scholars, Geographical Aesthetics is the first volume to make questions of geographical aesthetics a substantive concern. It reworks the historical relations between geography and aesthetics, and reconsiders how it is we might understand aesthetics. It then reaffirms the value of aesthetics in relation to key intellectual concerns within Geography and explores the geographies of the aesthetic, in particular the spatialities and imaginaries that mark its theorisations. In renewing aesthetics as a site of investigation, but also an analytic object through which we can think about the encounters, the meetings and minglings of the world, what also emerges is powerful reworking of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction: for geographical aesthetics, Harriet Hawkins and Elizabeth Straughan. Section 1 Towards a Lively Aesthetics: On aisthA*sis, 'inner touch' and the aesthetics of the moving body, Mark Paterson; Anime cosplay as love-sublimation, Paul Kingsbury; Activist pedagogies through Ranciere's aesthetic lens, Naomi Millner; Relational urban int...
