Open this publication in new window or tab >>2022 (English)In: Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops, Informa UK Limited , 2022, p. 157-176Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
From 1880 to 1964, many expeditions crossed seas and borders and climbed the highest mountains of the world, generating spaces which varied in accordance with the purpose of the journey and the interests of the explorers. This vast array of spatial re-productions is the realm of geography. Building upon the etymology of geo- and graphein (earth writing), this contribution analyses landscapes as products of geography by adopting emerging approaches in the environmental humanities (EH). Combining environment and humanities entails a mutual transformation: on the one hand, we recognise a landscape as constituted by stories other than materiality; on the other hand, the text - the object of interest par excellence in the humanities - involves a corporeal subject, not only a written or oral entity. If we deem the geography of a place the material translation of practices, discourses, and representations, EH offers the interpretative space and analytical tools to read (and re-write) the complex text of landscape. Given that power relations shape cultural and historical aspects of representations, which is to say geography, reassessments of geographical texts through EH can take on the status of a decolonising practice.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Informa UK Limited, 2022
National Category
History Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-328951 (URN)10.4324/9781003095965-11 (DOI)2-s2.0-85141543855 (Scopus ID)
Note
QC 20230614
2023-06-142023-06-142023-06-14Bibliographically approved