Understanding Cultural Landscapes
Published on 27. November 2025
300 pages
978-1-040-46829-6 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding Cultural Landscapes provides an introduction to the range of approaches characterising the study of landscape and culture. This textbook discusses the origins, underpinnings, and practical applications of social science and humanities scholarship concerning landscape and its theorisation.
The book offers an easy-to-digest introduction to relevant approaches and ideas in the study of landscape. The text includes practical, real-world examples drawn from a range of social science and humanities disciplines to showcase the interpretation of landscape by different means and to different ends. "Pauses for thought" encourage the reader to reflect and connect ideas and debates to examples encountered in their own life and work. Suggested activities support independent study and aid the design and delivery of university teaching. Each chapter also includes suggested readings, and the textbook includes discussion of research methods for those developing their own research projects.
This book will be valuable for both students and educators encountering, or teaching, the study of landscape within the humanities and social sciences for the first time. The incorporation of practical exercises and suggested reading enables the book to supplement independent study or be used as a teaching aid.
The book offers an easy-to-digest introduction to relevant approaches and ideas in the study of landscape. The text includes practical, real-world examples drawn from a range of social science and humanities disciplines to showcase the interpretation of landscape by different means and to different ends. "Pauses for thought" encourage the reader to reflect and connect ideas and debates to examples encountered in their own life and work. Suggested activities support independent study and aid the design and delivery of university teaching. Each chapter also includes suggested readings, and the textbook includes discussion of research methods for those developing their own research projects.
This book will be valuable for both students and educators encountering, or teaching, the study of landscape within the humanities and social sciences for the first time. The incorporation of practical exercises and suggested reading enables the book to supplement independent study or be used as a teaching aid.
Reviews / Votes
"In times of increasing socio-environmental conflicts and crises, landscape has become a crucial but also contested terrain for exploring our interplay with the material world. Understanding Cultural Landscapes provides a unique and insightful guide into the ever more complex field of cultural landscape studies, spanning from traditional approaches within human geography to its current critics and the most recent theoretical explorations in the field. With its clear structure and pedagogic layout, it offers a much needed introduction into the field."Professor Mattias Qvistroem, Professor at the Department of Urban and Rural Development; Landscape architecture Spatial planning, SLU the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
"This excellent, wide-ranging and accessible text is a joyous celebration of landscape's 'unruliness'. It guides the reader through landscapes for analysis, landscapes in process, landscapes felt, experienced and lived. Drawing on an impressive variety of geographers, historians, philosophers, poets, literary critics, feminist thinkers, decolonial theorists and more, this book will help any student think differently about and with landscape."
Dr. Pauline Couper, Associate Professor in Geography, Associate Head: Geography and Liberal Arts, York St John University
"Understanding Cultural Landscapes is a significant statement of renewal. It considers why a key concept continues to matter in human geography and cognate fields. Its co-authors have compiled an open and searching treatment of landscape, demonstrating a readiness to unsettle as much as secure what is known. The insights and challenges they offer make this a critical text for students and educators alike."
Professor Hayden Lorimer, Chair of Human Geography, University of Edinburgh
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
21 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
File size
156,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-46829-6 (9781040468296)
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Rachel Hunt | Ben Garlick
Understanding Cultural Landscapes
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Rachel Hunt | Ben Garlick
Understanding Cultural Landscapes
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11/2025
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Persons
Rachel Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Geography in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Ben Garlick was a Senior Lecturer in Geography at York St John University from January 2017 to October 2024, during which time he taught a module on 'Culture and Landscape'.
Ben Garlick was a Senior Lecturer in Geography at York St John University from January 2017 to October 2024, during which time he taught a module on 'Culture and Landscape'.
Content
Introduction: Understanding Cultural Landscapes 1. A Landscape Perspective 2. Landscape as a Way of Seeing 3. Landscape and Labour 4. The Landscape as a Text 5. Moral Landscapes 6. Landscape and Empire 7. Decolonising Landscape 8. Bodies in the Landscape 9. Feeling the Landscape 10. Vital Landscapes 11. Hauntings and Absence 12. Therapeutic Landscapes 13. Into the Landscape
