1st Edition

Sensuous Geographies Body, Sense and Place

By Paul Rodaway Copyright 1994
210 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

The contemporary challenge of postmodernity draws our attention to the nature of reality and the ways in which experience is constructed. Sensuous Geographies explores our immediate sensuous experience of the world. Touch, smell, hearing and sight - the four senses chiefly relevant to geographical experience - both receive and structure information. The process is mediated by historical,... Read more
Part 1 Sense and Geography; Chapter 1 Sensuous Geography; Chapter 2 Perception Theory and the Senses; Chapter 3 The Character of Sense; Part 2 Sense, Space, Place; Chapter 4 Haptic Geographies; Chapter 5 Olfactory Geographies; Chapter 6 Auditory Geographies; Chapter 7 Visual Geographies; Part 3 Sense and Reality; Chapter 8 Sensuous Geography and Transformation; Chapter 9 Images, Themes and Postmodern Geographies; Chapter 10 Sense and Hyper-Reality;

Biography

Rodaway, Paul