Walking, landscape and environment

Borthwick, D, Marland, P and Stenning, A, eds. (2019) Walking, landscape and environment. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138630109

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Abstract

This book explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts, emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking. This edited collection of essays from leading figures in the field presents an enquiry into, and a critique of, the methods and results of cutting-edge ‘walking research’. Walking negotiates the intersections between the human self, place and space, offering a cross-disciplinary collaborative method of research which can be utilised in areas such as ecocriticism, landscape architecture, literature, cultural geography and the visual arts. Bringing together a multitude of perspectives from different disciplines, on topics including health and wellbeing, disability studies, social justice, ecology and gender, this book provides a unique appraisal of the humanist perspective on landscape. In doing so, it challenges Romantic approaches to walking, applying new ideas in contemporary critical thought and alternative perspectives on embodiment and trans-corporeality.

Item Type: Book
Divisions: School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities
Date Deposited: 07 Jan 2020 14:59
Last Modified: 15 Aug 2021 09:54
URI / Page ID: https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/13005
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