ENVISIONING LANDSCAPES, MAKING WORLDS The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of geography now permeate literature, philosophy, and the arts. Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping and territory have become pervasive as conceptual frame- works and core metaphors in recent publications by humanities scholars and well-known writers. Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds contains over 25 contributions from leading scholars who have engaged this vital intellectual project from various perspectives, both inside and outside of the fi eld of geography. The book is divided into four sections representing different modes of examining the depth and complexity of human meaning invested in maps, attached to landscapes, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life. The topics covered range widely and include interpretations of space, place, and landscape in literature and the visual arts, philosophical refl ections on geographical knowledge, cultural imagination in scientifi c exploration and travel accounts, and expanded geographical understanding through digital and participatory methodologies. The clashing and blending of cultures caused by globaliza- tion and the new technologies that profoundly alter human environmental experience suggest new geographical narratives and representations that are explored here by a multidisciplinary group of authors. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and interested general readers seeking to understand the new synergies and creative interplay emerging from this broad intellectual engagement with meaning and geographic experience. Stephen Daniels is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham, UK. Dydia DeLyser is Associate Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University, USA. J. Nicholas Entrikin is Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Douglas Richardson is Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers, USA. “This book provides powerful evidence of geography’s intellectual and moral affi liations with the humanities. It boasts an impressive cast of contributors, with elegant and compelling essays that show why creativity, imagination and refl ection matter to geographers, and why the insights of geography matter to the humanities as never before.” Professor Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. “For geography, this book vigorously promotes the signifi cance of the powers of spatial and visual representation in evoking landscapes and places. For the humani- ties, it elegantly maps the variety of ways in which geographical concepts are helping respond to the so-called crisis of representation by grounding texts, performances, and visual art in landscapes and places.” Professor John Agnew, UCLA, USA. ENVISIONING LANDSCAPES, MAKING WORLDS Geography and the humanities Edited by Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin and Douglas Richardson First published 2011 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2011 Selection and editorial matter, Association of American Geographers; individual chapters, the contributors The right of the Association of American Geographers to be identifi ed as authors of the editorial material and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Envisioning landscapes, making worlds/Association of American Geographers. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Human geography. 2. Landscape assessment. I. Association of American Geographers. GF41.E556 2010 304.2ʹ3–dc22 2010028082 ISBN: 978-0-415-58977-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-58978-9 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-83928-7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of contributors xii Foreword xix Converging worlds: geography and the humanities Douglas Richardson Prologue xxii Geography within the humanities Denis Cosgrove Introduction xxvi Envisioning landscapes, making worlds Stephen Daniels, Dydia DeLyser, J. Nicholas Entrikin and Douglas Richardson PART I Mapping 1 1 Why America is called America 3 Franco Farinelli 2 Above the dead cities 12 Derek Gregory 3 Digital cartographies and medieval geographies 25 Keith D. Lilley vi Contents 4 Mapping the taboo 34 Gunnar Olsson 5 Choros, chora and the question of landscape 44 Kenneth R. Olwig 6 Thematic cartography and the study of American history 55 Susan Schulten PART II Refl ecting 63 7 Do places have edges? a geo-philosophical inquiry 65 Edward S. Casey 8 Race, mobility and the humanities: a geosophical approach 74 Tim Cresswell 9 The world in plain view 84 J. Nicholas Entrikin 10 Courtly geography: nature, authority and civility in early eighteenth-century France 94 Michael Heffernan 11 Darwinian landscapes 106 David Livingstone 12 Travel and the domination of space in the European imagination 118 Anthony Pagden 13 The good inherit the earth 127 Yi-Fu Tuan PART III Representing 141 14 Putting Pablo Neruda’s Alturas de Macchu Picchu in its places 143 Jim Cocola Contents vii 15 Great balls of fi re: envisioning the brilliant meteor of 1783 155 Stephen Daniels 16 Reading landscapes and telling stories: geography, the humanities and environmental history 170 Diana K. Davis 17 Participatory historical geography? Shaping and failing to shape social memory at an Oklahoma monument 177 Dydia DeLyser 18 Still-life, after-life, nature morte : W.G. Sebald and the demands of landscape 188 Jessica Dubow 19 The texture of space: desire and displacement in Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman of the dunes 198 Matthew Gandy 20 Restoration: synoptic refl ections 209 David Lowenthal 21 Overlapping ambiguities, disciplinary perspectives, and metaphors of looking: refl ections on a landscape photograph 227 Joan M. Schwartz PART IV Performing 237 22 Inverting perspective: icons’ performative geographies 239 Veronica della Dora 23 Literary geography: the novel as a spatial event 247 Sheila Hones 24 Materializing vision: performing a high-rise view 256 Jane M. Jacobs, Stephen Cairns, and Ignaz Strebel 25 Technician of light: Patrick Geddes and the optic of geography 269 Fraser MacDonald viii Contents 26 Deserted places, remote voices: performing landscape 280 Mike Pearson 27 Photography and its circulations 287 Gillian Rose 28 Beyond the power of art to represent? Narratives and performances of the Arctic in the 1630s 293 Julie Sanders 29 Navigating the Northwest Passage 299 Kathryn Yusoff Index 311 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 10.1 Title page of the Cours . 97 10.2 Jean Audran’s image of Louis XV in the Cours . 101 15.1 Track of the Meteor of 18 August 1783 and Main Sites of Observation. 157 15.2a Henry Robinson, An Accurate Representation of the Meteor which was seen on Aug 18, 1783 (1783). 158 15.2b The Meteor of Aug. 18th, 1783, as it appeared from the NE Terrace, at Windsor Castle (1783). 159 17.1 The completed statue of Nannita Daisey, Leaping into History showing her mythic jump from the cowcatcher, here with petticoats fl ying. 179 19.1 Woman of the dunes [Suna no onna], 1964. 200 19.2 Woman of the dunes [Suna no onna], 1964. 202 19.3 Woman of the dunes [Suna no onna], 1964. 204 21.1 The Wigwam, a Canadian Scene at Penllergare. 231 24.1 The Red Road estate, Glasgow. 257 24.2 William Ross, then Secretary of State for Scotland, and his wife at a Red Road window. 261 24.3 The talking and showing of a Red Road view. 264 25.1 The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh. 270 25.2 Geddesian Sociology, Le Play’s “place-work-folk” triad, 1976. 276 29.1 National Ice Core Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado 2007. 304 x List of illustrations Colour Plates (Between pp. 160-161) I RAF zone map of Dresden. II RAF target map. III Dresden , elin o’Hara slavick, 1945. IV (a) Britain mapped in National Grid coordinate space, (b) Gough Map distortion grid derived using Euclidean trans- formation, (c) Gough Map distortion grid clipped coastline. V New towns of Edward I compared. VI Le Sahara, by Gustave Guillaumet, 1867. VII Au Pays de la soif, by Eugène Fromentin, 1869. VIII “Icons stare back”. Icon of the Panaghia Theosképaste-, Holy Monastery Panaghias Theoskepástou, Sochos, Greece. IX Sacred space is confi gured and enacted through perform- ance. Icon of the Mother of God, Holy Monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos. X The “wrapping effect” of icons’ inverse perspective. Katholikón of Docheiariou Monastery, Mount Athos, 1568. XI The “transfi gured” and “transfi guring” landscape. Katholikón of Docheiariou Monastery, Mount Athos,