A name etched in the smooth, black stone of a war memorial, a crowd of peasants captured
in oil paint, a ghost town arrested intentionally in its decay, the planet we call home seen …

A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a
fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global …

Geographical description has been made surprisingly difficult by the confusions of
postmodernity. Cultures, landscapes, and styles are being mixed up and redeposited like …

Independent Scholar, New York ncouraged, no doubt, by Derek Gregory's belief that “human
geography has E much to learn from... aesthetics....”(p. 124), by his eagerness “to draw on …

In the face of several recent proposals for rematerializing social and cultural geography this
paper argues that we should look to the 'new'urban geography for inspiration. Because of its …

The historical mind surveys the expanding horizon, the intertwining of values and
landscape, enthralled by the connections that open before it but finding them within a …

For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried the study of humanistic geography—what
John K. Wright early in the twentieth century called _geosophy_, a blending of geography …

There is no word for what I do, for what I passionately profess. I identified myself as a
geographer at an early age and have accepted a series of qualifying labels over the years …

Humanistic geographers study topics such as the cultural construction of place and
landscape, the cartography of everyday life, the power of language and meaning to create …

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further
broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a …