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CFP: AEROGRAPHIES (AAG 2009, Las Vegas, March 22-27)

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Mark Jackson (U of Bristol) has alerted me to a terrific-sounding session on the theme of air and materialities to be held at the 2009 meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Las Vegas.
CFP: ‘Aerographies’: re-thinking unthought elemental and metaphysical assumptions in recent human geographies
AAG 2009, Las Vegas, March 22nd-27th.
“…our concepts have [...]

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Hurricane Season in New Orleans

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Following on our issue of Space and Culture, the first refereed publication on Hurricane Katrina, and recent anthology What is a City? The Urban after Katrina (University of Georgia Press 2008) edited by Philip Steinberg and Rob Shields, one of the contributors, Jordan Flaherty, reports on the recent evacuation of the city for Hurricane Gustav [...]

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Book Review: Knowing Places: The Inuinnait, Landscapes and the Environment

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Knowing Places: The Inuinnait, Landscapes and the Environment, Béatrice Collignon. Translation of Les Inuit : ce qu’ils savent du territoire. Translation and scientific editing by Linna Weber Müller-Willie. Circumpolar Research Series No.10,  CCI Press, University of Alberta: Edmonton, Canada, 2006. ISSN 0838133X.

The points become fewer, the lines fade out as fewer and fewer people travel along [...]

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Les espaces de la lavande

Friday, June 27, 2008

Paysage de champs colorés près de Sarraud, Vaucluse, France (44°01’ N – 5°24’ E)
Mr. Cassan and his family cultivate more than 600 acres of both traditional or ‘true’ lavender and lavendin, a sterile, hardier and much more prolific hybrid with a cruder, industrial, camphor scent. His great-grandfather was among the first lavender middlemen in France, [...]

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Flow and the capacity to exceed form

Monday, April 7, 2008

Rivers as artifacts by Matt Edgeworth
For the most part rivers tend to be regarded as more or less natural features of a landscape or townscape … Yet a river and its flow of water is actually often as culturally re-shaped, used and re-used, as any artifact or building … Are rivers natural or cultural? Rivers [...]

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