Landscape Versus Region – Part II

Agnew, John A. (Herausgeber:in) / Duncan, James S. (Herausgeber:in) / Mathewson, Kent (Autor:in)

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Human Geography ; 130-145

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

08.04.2011

16 pages

9781405189897 , 9781444395839

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395839.ch8

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

spatial science in command ‐ “Exceptionalism in Geography ‐ A Methodological Examination, ” Annals of the Association of American Geographers , Preston E. James' presidential address ‐ Association of American Geographers in 1951, that “The regional concept constitutes the core of geography” , landscape versus region ‐ landscape and region at mid‐century , landscape as concept, entangled ‐ estranged twin of regional method and construct , mid‐century American academic geography ‐ harboring a chorologic or regional approach, running its most recent course , landscape, making one of its periodic (re)appearances ‐ joining the ongoing and equally distinctive approach, tended by Sauer at Berkeley , non‐representational theory by Nigel Thrift (1996) ‐ cited as a major influence on this approach , Derwent Whittlesey, chorologist and senior geographer at Harvard ‐ contributing the lead Chapter, “The Regional Concept and the Regional Method” , regionalism writ large, outside of academia ‐ the transfer from realist/regional to abstract/international aesthetics, taking place in the landscape , Hartshorne and “The Assassination of Landscape” ‐ after the publication of The Nature of Geography