ABSTRACT
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, cultural and technological factors.
Issues of definition are illustrated through a variety of sensuous geographies. Focusing on postmodern concerns with representation, the book brings insights from individual perceptions and cultural observations to an analysis of the senses, challenging us to reconsider the role of the sensuous as not merely the physical basis of understanding but as an integral part of the cultural definition of geographical knowledge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
Sense and Geography
chapter 1|7 pages
Sensuous Geography
chapter 2|15 pages
Perception Theory and the Senses
chapter 3|14 pages
The Character of Sense
part II|104 pages
Sense, Space, Place
chapter 4|20 pages
Haptic Geographies
chapter 5|21 pages
Olfactory Geographies
chapter 6|33 pages
Auditory Geographies
chapter 7|28 pages
Visual Geographies
part III|37 pages
Sense and Reality