Beschreibung
This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geographys resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene Gendlins philosophical and methodological work to stimulate geographical thinking and practice, and explores its disciplinary potential through innovative practice-based research into artistic spatial experience. Gendlins philosophy and techniques for articulating the pre-reflective are explained and illustrated using artists accounts of their practices, both retrospectively and during their practice. The geographical implementation of research methods informed by those techniques is detailed and critiqued. Diverse and potentially contradictory findings, and potentially problematic methodological choices, are discussed, accounted for, and reframed through Gendlins ideas. Significant geographical potential within Gendlins workphilosophical, conceptual and methodologicalis identified and described, and avenues and challenges for further investigation are highlighted. This first step towards a Gendlin-informed geography invites further engagement with his work.
Autorenporträt
Janet Banfield is a lecturer in human geography at Hertford College, Oxford University, UK. With publications in both geography (Cultural Geographies) and psychology (Journal of Phenomenological Psychology), Janets research integrates interdisciplinary understandings and practices. Her research focuses on the generation of space and identity during cultural practices, and on methodological innovation within this field.
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Springer Verlag GmbH
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E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
