Geographies of Disorientation

2018 Geographical perception

Author : Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
Release : 2018
Genre : Geographical perception
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Download or read book Geographies of Disorientation written by Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial disorientation is of great relevance in the current era of globalization, provoking deep questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Addressing questions such as: How do we orient ourselves? and What are the cognitive and cultural instruments that we use to move through space?, this book points to the web of relations implicit in the notion of disorientation. The book explores getting lost as a practice while discussing direct and indirect observation, wayfinding performances and the different technological tools we use to find our position in space, as well as employing disorientation as a metaphor for the contemporary era.

Geographies of Disorientation

2017-08-10 Science

Author : Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
Release : 2017-08-10
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 281/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Geographies of Disorientation written by Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg. This book was released on 2017-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial disorientation is of key relevance to our globalized world, eliciting complex questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Viewed more broadly, disorientation is a profoundly geographical theme that concerns our relationship with space, places, the body, emotions, and time, as well as being a powerful and frequently recurring metaphor in art, philosophy, and literature. Using multiple perspectives, lenses, methodological tools, and scales, Geographies of Disorientation addresses questions such as: How do we orient ourselves? What are the cognitive and cultural instruments that we use to move through space? Why do we get lost? Two main threads run through the book: getting lost as a practice, explored within a post-phenomenological framework in relation to direct and indirect observation, wayfinding performances, and the various methods and tools used to find our position in space; and disorientation as a metaphor for the contemporary era, used in a broad range of contexts to express the difficulty of finding points of reference in the world we live in. Drawing on a wide range of literature, Geographies of Disorientation is a highly original and intruiging read which will be of interest to scholars of human geography, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cognitive science, information technology, and the communication sciences.

Dissident Geographies

2016-07-08 Science

Author : Alison Blunt
Release : 2016-07-08
Genre : Science
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Download or read book Dissident Geographies written by Alison Blunt. This book was released on 2016-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilize what counts as geographical knowledge. Second, the book shows how the production of geographical knowledge is tied to politics and struggles outside as well as within the academy. In each chapter, case studies illustrate the spatiality of political practice and the politics of geographical thought. In this way Dissident Geographies reveals the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge.

Geographies of Displacement/s

2023 Displacement (Psychology)

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Release : 2023
Genre : Displacement (Psychology)
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Download or read book Geographies of Displacement/s written by . This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for another or the unconscious transfer of intense feelings or emotions; activities occurring outside their normal context; and replacements of one thing by another. The COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization in 2020, produced new displacements and intensified existing patterns of displacement and dispossession. At the same time, socionatural displacements - floods, fires, droughts, hurricanes, sea-level rise, species loss, and dislocation - were the backdrop to the displaced and deferred hopes of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The chapters in this volume contend with how we as geographers conceptualize and theorize displacements; the range of sites, spaces, processes, affects, scales, and actors we study with to understand them; and what is at stake politically in how we research displacements. It is also a pandemic archive of academic labor, in which we find traces of displacements within and beyond the academic discipline of geography. Geographies of Displacement/s will be of particular interest to students, scholars and researchers of Geography including those interested in human geography, socio-natural displacements, and the politics of migration and displacement. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers."--Publisher.

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