Published today! Understanding Cultural Landscapes, by Rachel Hunt & Ben Garlick. Priveleged to have had a preview of this, and very pleased to recommend it! #geography #Landscape #CulturalGeography www.routledge.com/Understandin...

Understanding Cultural Landsca...
Understanding Cultural Landscapes

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

Routledge & CRC Press

📖 The journal Geographies published a paper by a group of members of the #FIREUSES project on "Pyrostories", ie, Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative.

🔓 #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies4040039

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#Histodons #LiteraryStudies #LiteraryLandscapes #Portugal #Wildfires #ModernHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #HistóriaAmbiental #PaisagensLiterárias #Fogos #GeografiaCultural #CulturalGeography #Incêndios

A #booklist for #bookstodon in these dark times, from my own reading list. #politics #usa #uspol #CulturalGeography

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Giridharadas

A People's History of the United States by Zinn

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow

Economics: A User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang

Lakota Woman by Mary Brave Bird

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Engendering Development by Trauger and Fluri

The FORGOTTEN KING of the STRANGERS

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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic unearthed in Syrian dig. The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations… #Writing #Language #Script #Archeology #Anthropology #CulturalGeography
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient-alphabet-discovered-syria/
Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city

Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries

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Time capsule discovered under San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid
#SFBA #History #Architecture #CulturalGeography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPlNU15zGe8
Time capsule discovered under San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid - EXCLUSIVE

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If you’re prepping for #AAG2024—or just love geography as much as we do—check out the treasure trove of resources on our American Association of Geographers conference hub. You’ll find links to help you navigate the event, as well as interviews and exciting new books to fuel your curiosity.

https://ideasonfire.net/aag/

#Geographers #CulturalGeography #HumanGeography #BlackGeographies #ElevateGeo #AmericanAssociationOfGeographers #IdeasOnFire #IoFAuthors

American Association of Geographers conference

Ideas on Fire's virtual hub for the 2024 American Association of Geographers conference, with critical geography books, interviews, and more.

Ideas on Fire
Paper worth reading: Pre-individual affects: Gilbert Simondon and the individuation of relation by Thomas Keating: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474474018824090 #culturalgeography

New book day!

I've been looking forward to reading this one for a while.

Going all city: Struggle and survival in LA's graffiti subculture
By Stefano Bloch @StefanoBloch
https://www.goingallcity.com/

#graffiti #UrbanGeography #CulturalGeography #LosAngeles #Subculture

Going All City | Stefano Bloch

A book on cultural geography and urban ethnography I Graffiti in Los Angeles.

Going All City