Maurice Ronai picks up where he left with his follow up to his earlier article ‘Paysages’. Appearing in the same journal, the author sticks to the short titles, opting for ‘Paysages. II’ this time. Unsurprisingly, he reiterates some of the key insights from the previous landscape article. These need not be repeated, so I will […]
Maurice Ronai covers various aspects of landscape in his plainly titled article ‘Paysages’. He addresses landscape through ‘géoscopie’ (126-133), ‘géographie’ (133-139), ‘géosémie’ (139-153) and ‘géophilie’ (153-159). Ronai also discusses space, a related concept, and what is understood as the objective reality is referred to as the real or real space. The first part on ‘géoscopie’ […]
In ‘La forêt loisir, un équipement de pouvoir: L’exemple de la forêt de Fontainebleau’, Bernard Kalaora and Valentin Pelosse discuss forests as landscapes. They use the Fontainebleau forest, a national park located southeast of Paris, as an example. They (92) start by pointing out that when one is situated in a forest, one does not […]
Landscape was successfully reintroduced and perhaps more importantly reconceptualized in the 1970s by humanistic geographers who opposed what had marginalized landscape research: the scientific method, more specifically positivism and quantitative methods. In my first post, I pointed out that I started out with Donald Meinig’s ‘The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays’. It stands in […]
Landscape research is typically nested in cultural geography, which is in turn nested in human geography, opposite of physical geography. This is of course a broad generalization and by no means manages to capture the diversity of landscape research, which includes multiple disciplines, not only geography. To name some, these include anthropology, architecture, art and […]
Before moving on to the main course, landscape and discourse, it’s wise to start off with something small. I started working on a PhD a couple years ago, focusing on linguistic landscapes. I opted to do something different, something unexplored for my PhD rather than playing it safe. I didn’t want to end up a […]