The Meanings Of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Landscape, philology, and the environmental
	Just ask Alice
	Landscape’s double meaning and the spatial appropriation of place and nature
	Place and space
	The “nature” of landscape
	The perspective of natural science
	The perspective of art and theater and the prospect of modernity’s nature
	The organization of the book
	Recovering the philological foundations of the environmental (geo)humanities
	The chapters in brief
	Note
Chapter 1: Recovering the substantive nature of landscape
	Personal preface
	Introduction
	The duplicitous meaning of landscape
	The “territorial” meaning of landscape
	Landschaft as territory and community
	Landschaft, social estate, and community justice
	The Landschaft as a body politic
	The land and law in Landschaft
	Landschaft art
	Landscape and country in England
	Landschaft and country
	Nature, custom, and landscape
	Natural law and landscape
	Palladian landscape
	The landscaping of Landschaft
	Fascist landscape
	The morphology of geography’s Landschaft
	Rethinking the substantive meaning of landscape
	Notes
Chapter 2: Landscape, place, and the state of progress
	Prologue
	Introduction
	Progressive custom
	The political landscape
	Court vs. country, lord vs. landscape
	Landscape as the scene of state
	The progress of landscape
	The materialization of the landscape of progress
	The transformation of progress
	The stages of progress
	Revolutionary progress
	The non-place of modernity
	Custom vs. modern progress
	Conclusion: From utopianism to topianism
	Notes
Chapter 3: Choros, place, and the spatialization of landscape
	Introduction
	The Platonic chora
	The substantive choros of the Greek polis
	Ptolemaic chorography and landscape as scenic space
	Plato, Ptolemy, chorography, and chora
	Platonic cosmology and landscape
	Space, place, region, and choros/chora
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: Are islanders insular? A personal view
	Preface
	Prologue: A personal tale of two islands
	Is no man not unto an island? Islandic civilizational primacy
	The noninsularity of the insular
	Ptolemaic navigation
	Islecentricism?
	In the mind’s isle
	Notes
Chapter 5: The case of the “missing” mask: Performance, theater, ætherial space, and the practice of landscape/architecture
	Prologue a tale of two cities
	Landscape/architecture and theatrical practice
	The case of the missing mask
	Substantial masks versus ætherial performance space
	Ætherial versus spatial scenery
	Personifying Britain as landscape
	Turning the substantive place of the theater “outside in” and then “inside out”
	An expostulation with Inigo Jones
	Landscape and Pygmalion
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6: Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape: Perambulatory practice, sight, and the sense of belonging
	Performing upon landscape versus doing landscape
	Sensing landscape and the sense of belonging
	Herd animals and the doing of the pedestrian landscape
	Doing and practicing landscape
	Doing custom versus performing tradition
	“All we like sheep …”
	Conclusion
Chapter 7: Heidegger, Latour, and the reification of things: The inversion and spatial enclosure of the substantive landscape – The Lake District case
	Preface
	Introduction
	Part 1: The concept of thing – Heidegger and Latour
	The reified thing
	Thing studies
	Defining things in the substantive landscape
	The enclosure and inversion of the landscape of things
	The European Landscape Convention
	Part 2: Betwixt and between landscapes – The Lake District vs. the Yorkshire Dales
	Community vs. nature’s space
	Concluding discussion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
Chapter 8: Transcendent space, reactionary modernism, and the “diabolic” sublime: Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and the landscape origins of modern spatial science and planning
	Prelude
	Perspectival space and the origins of the sublime
	The space of Christaller’s reactionary modern models
	Christaller and the bordering of a borderless Germany
	Edgar Kant’s “landscapic” regions
	Postlude
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
Chapter 9: Geese, elves, and the duplicitous, “diabolical” landscaped space and wild nature of reactionary modernism: Holgersson, Hägerstrand, and Lorenz
	Duplicitous landscape
	Nils Holgersson’s Swedish journey
	Holgersson and geographical science
	Holgersson and the two landscapes
	The modern time-space geography of Holgersson
	Nils Holgersson, Konrad Lorenz, and biological reactionary modernism
	Fictional lies and real geese and Nazis
	Holgersson’s “natural” landscape and ethnic cleansing
	Goosey miscegenation, racial hygiene, and euthanasia
	Past and contemporary non-Nazi reactionary modern parallels: Edward O. Wilson and George Monbiot
	Rewilding landscape
	Conclusion: Diabolic thought and reactionary modernism
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
References
Index