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 […]