Reaproaching landscape

John Wylie (2005): Walking around the South West Coast path, he wrote about his own experience walking along the path, mentioning areas with different connections to people such as places known for suicide etc. Controversial at the time as it was seen as self-indulgent

Hayden Lorimer: Running the world
Essay about his run around the world and describing the sense of geography that comes from it such as through:

• Senses, emotions, feelings

• Movements through the landscape

• Bodies in space- ‘embodiment’

B: Non-representational theory

Embodiment: This idea, central to the approach of phenomenologists like Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61)and to the recent work of some cultural geographers, argues that the distinction drawn between self and body primarily in the west is artificial and unsustainable.

Non-representational theory:
Emphasis on the significance of embodied knowledge, of connecting with the world through our senses, and celebrating feelings (in both senses of the word), finds its strongest expression in Nigel Thrifts’s

Geographies of performance and practises

Take 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony = performance is also part of geography as it is a representation of an idea, or in 2012, representation of UK history.

Erwin Goffman:
The presentation of self in everyday life (1959)
-Thinks about how everyday life is like theatre. We take on roles, and act identities in social interactions.

Everyday life as performance.

Wider interest in practises - in what we do, how we behave, as well as our representations in words and images of the world around us.

Think of restaurants etc.

Geographies of Movement - the ‘Mobilities Paradigm’

Tim Cresswell On the Move (2006), p1: The slippery and intangible nature of mobility makes it an elusive object of study. Mobility is central to what it is to be human, it is a fundamental geographical facet of existence, for example:

Automobility - car cultures

Danny Miller Car Cultures (2001, p.1): Think of cars through the lens of an alien, people never leaving without a car, cars being everywhere and mass produced. → Big identity of people and (Western culture?)

Aeromobility:

The impact of the development of aeroplanes and how they have had a similar impact on mobility as cars as well as the geographies that come from it

Geographies of movement, not of settlement