Geographical Aesthetics

Download or read book Geographical Aesthetics written by Dr Harriet Hawkins and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together timely commentaries by international, interdisciplinary scholars, Geographical Aesthetics is the first volume to make questions of geographical aesthetics a substantive concern. It reworks the historical relations between geography and aesthetics, and reconsiders how it is we might understand aesthetics. It then reaffirms the value of aesthetics in relation to key intellectual concerns within Geography and explores the geographies of the aesthetic, in particular the spatialities and imaginaries that mark its theorisations. In renewing aesthetics as a site of investigation, but also an analytic object through which we can think about the encounters, the meetings and minglings of the world, what also emerges is powerful reworking of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic.