Tender Maps

Author : Alice Maddicott
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781914613333

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Tender Maps by Alice Maddicott Pdf

'Of all the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin for me, bluebell woods are first among them.' Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to place, this extraordinary book explores the author's relentless travelling, from the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical approach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with landscape that is the very essence of human creativity. From seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo Calvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and eighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, Tender Maps is a beautifully evocative book of travel, culture and imagination that transports readers in time and place. 'A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.' - Travis Elborough, author of Atlas of Vanishing Places

Author : Giuliana Bruno
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 1133 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786633231

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Atlas of Emotion by Giuliana Bruno Pdf

Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emphasises that "sight" and "site" but also "motion" and "emotion" are irrevocably connected. In so doing, Giuliana Bruno touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Message, the film making of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, the origins of the movie palace and its precursors, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.

Author : Martin Dodge,Rob Kitchin,Chris Perkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134043859

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Rethinking Maps by Martin Dodge,Rob Kitchin,Chris Perkins Pdf

Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers a contemporary assessment of the diverse forms that mapping now takes and, drawing upon a number of theoretic perspectives and disciplines, provides an insightful commentary on new ontological and epistemological thinking with respect to cartography. This book presents a diverse set of approaches to a wide range of map forms and activities in what is presently a rapidly changing field. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach to important contemporary mapping practices, with chapters written by leading theorists who have an international reputation for innovative thinking. Much of the new research around mapping is emerging as critical dialogue between practice and theory and this book has chapters focused on intersections with play, race and cinema. Other chapters discuss cartographic representation, sustainable mapping and visual geographies. It also considers how alternative models of map creation and use such as open-source mappings and map mash-up are being creatively explored by programmers, artists and activists. There is also an examination of the work of various ‘everyday mappers’ in diverse social and cultural contexts. This blend of conceptual chapters and theoretically directed case studies provides an excellent resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, GIScience and cartography, visual anthropology, media studies, graphic design and computer graphics. Rethinking Maps is a necessary and significant text for all those studying or having an interest in cartography.

Author : Jeffrey N. Peters
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0874138477

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Mapping Discord by Jeffrey N. Peters Pdf

Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated, Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky.

Author : Professor Stuart C Aitken
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409488095

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The Awkward Spaces of Fathering by Professor Stuart C Aitken Pdf

Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent. This book seeks to explore the spaces and movements of men-as-fathers. Weaving together theories of space, sexuality and political identity with the stories of fathers from a range of sources, including popular culture, it discusses the way in which geographies of space can disconnect and disempower fathers, while societal notions marginalize and disassociate them from raising children. It explores how fathering identities are shaped by family and community spaces and aims to move the definition of 'fathering' beyond its definition in opposition to 'mothering'. In doing so, it provides insights into the contradictory nature of father's lives and argues that, rather than moving away from the traditional notions of masculine roles, that the emotional work of fathering in itself is an heroic act.

Author : Tristan J. Tarwater
Publisher : Back That Elf Up
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Valley of Ten Crescents (Box Set: Books 1-3) by Tristan J. Tarwater Pdf

THE VALLEY OF TEN CRESCENTS SERIES Book 1: Thieves at Heart Born in poverty, a half-elf in a human city, Tavera lives in a world where she doesn't belong -- until the day she meets Derk. Initiated into the elite group of self-made scoundrels known as the Cup of Cream, Tavera must choose between loyalty to her father and a place as one of the THIEVES AT HEART. Book 2: Self-Made Scoundrel Dershik Cartaskin's life is one of power, wealth, privilege... and lies. Son to an ambitious father, husband to a wife he cannot love, and father to a child who is not his own, Dershik has everything, and yet nothing to call his own. When the price of power and the weight of lies grow too great for him to bear, Dershik decides to leave everything he's ever known behind, and makes a deadly choice that will irrevocably alter his future. Rejecting his former life, Dershik takes on a new name and a new identity, and sets out to forge his legacy as Derk -- member of the band of thieves known as the Cup of Cream, and SELF-MADE SCOUNDREL. But soon Derk finds that even a dishonest man can't hide from the truth... Book 3: Red Moon Rising The rise of a deadly cult threatens life in the Valley of Ten Crescents. Alone, betrayed, and on the run from the law, Tavera finds herself charged with rescuing Kella, a priestess with a powerful secret who has been kidnapped by the cult. Tavera finds she can no longer be a little girl lost, but must become a leader and a savior if she is to survive the RED MOON RISING. Bonus: Little Girl Lost Tavera is a child passed from hand to hand as a source of cheap labor in the underworld of the Valley. When she finds herself at the mercy of the vicious sausage maker, the elderly Madame Greswin, she discovers secrets from the woman's past and the consequences leave Tavera fighting for her life.

Author : Giuliana Bruno
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786633224

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Atlas of Emotion by Giuliana Bruno Pdf

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between “sight” and “site” and “motion” and “emotion.” In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois, the filmmaking of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, media archaeology and the origins of the museum, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno’s book opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IIED
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Digital mapping
ISBN : 9781843696056

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Mapping for Change by Anonim Pdf

Participation in spatial information management and communication. A combined CTA and IIED issue

Author : Christina Ljungberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273222

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Creative Dynamics by Christina Ljungberg Pdf

How do readers make sense of a picture, a photograph, or a map in literary narratives in which visual signs play a critical role? How do authors accomplish their various objectives in constructing such complex texts? What strategies and techniques do they use to project fictional worlds and to provide their readers with the means for orienting themselves there? This book investigates the dynamics of the imaginary diagrams created by cartographers, photographers, and writers of narratives, giving ample evidence of how mapping practices have inspired the imagination of a vast number of authors from Thomas More up to contemporary writers. A special focus is on the effects created by the projection of photographs into the narrative space, and how our seemingly effortless interpretation of photographs and even maps masks complex cognitive processes. The theoretical horizon of this study encompasses the fields of cartography, mental maps, iconicity research, and the spatial turn in cultural studies.

Author : Neil Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783480845

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Affective Critical Regionality by Neil Campbell Pdf

Investigates the concept of affective critical regionality to demonstrate how it deepens our sense of and relations to place.

Author : Magdalena Diering
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031564673

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Advances in Manufacturing IV by Magdalena Diering Pdf

Author : Meghan Cope,Sarah Elwood
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781446244562

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Qualitative GIS by Meghan Cope,Sarah Elwood Pdf

Geographic Information Systems are an essential tool for analyzing and representing quantitative spatial data. Qualitative GIS explains the recent integration of qualitative research with Geographical Information Systems With a detailed contextualising introduction, the text is organised in three sections: Representation: examines how researchers are using GIS to create new types of representations; working with spatial data, maps, and othervisualizations to incorporate multiple meanings and to provide texture and context. Analysis: discusses the new techniques of analysis that are emerging at the margins between qualitative research and GIS, this in the wider context of a critical review of mixed-methods in geographical research Theory: questions how knowledge is produced, showing how ideas of 'science' and 'truth' inform research, and demonstrates how qualitative GIS can be used to interrogate discussions of power, community, and social action Making reference to representation, analysis, and theory throughout, the text shows how to frame questions, collect data, analyze results, and represent findings in a truly integrated way. An important addition to the mixed methods literature, Qualitative GIS will be the standard reference for upper-level students and researchers using qualitative methods and Geographic Information Systems.

Author : Liliane Louvel
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 140940031X

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Poetics of the Iconotext by Liliane Louvel Pdf

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available the theories of the respected French text/image specialist Professor Liliane Louvel and introduces English readers to the most current thinking in French text/image theory and visual studies. Situated within the most significant recent debates in text/image studies, Louvel's work presents a sophisticated new typology of text-image relations that enable readers to think at once more precisely and more inventively about texts, images, and the intersections between the two.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10518763

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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Michael Dear,Jim Ketchum,Sarah Luria,Doug Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136883477

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GeoHumanities by Michael Dear,Jim Ketchum,Sarah Luria,Doug Richardson Pdf

In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty cutting edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and scientists. This book explores the humanities’ rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices. It is no coincidence that the geohumanities are forcefully emerging at a time of immense intellectual and social change. This book focuses on a range of topics to address urgent contemporary imperatives, such as the link between creativity and place; altered practices of spatial literacy; the increasing complexity of visual representation in art, culture, and science and the ubiquitous presence of geospatial technologies in the Information Age. GeoHumanties is essential reading for students wishing to understand the intellectual trends and forces driving scholarship and research at the intersections of geography and the humanities disciplines. These trends hold far-reaching implications for future work in these disciplines, and for understanding the changes gripping our societies and our globalizing world.