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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
As the Desire Paths Flickr Pool makes the rounds, I thought I’d point to Matt’s recent article, Accepting Invitations: Desire Lines as Earthly Offerings
I would like to suggest that desire lines are not merely the product of a human-desiring, nor are they merely a material expression of some aspect of the human imagination; rather, desire [...]
Martin Jacques in The Guardian writes of a geopolitical sea change marked for Britain by the nationalization of Northern Rock, a UK bank and in the US by the sub-prime mortgages and home repossession crisis and worldwide by major banking losses such as UBS quarterly loss of GBP5.8B.
As the ’30s marked the [...]