Landscape biography

  • Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives.
  • The series explicitly focuses on: – the interactions between physical and material aspects of landscapes and landscape experiences, meanings and representations.
  • Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives.

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    Landscape biography

    A landscape biography tells the layered life story of a landscape: how it has developed in the continuous interaction between humans and nature. It comprises an in-depth exploration of the genesis of a landscape over time, involving both physical and immaterial dimensions and integrating knowledge from a variety of disciplines.

    From the start in the Centre for Global Heritage and Development has been active in developing and promoting the methodology.  Landscape Biographies was launched in We offered several lectures and workshops in the Netherlands and abroad, and launched a (Dutch) course in   An English edition of the course is scheduled for We also published several articles on LB and even made a short documentary!

    In the coming year we are planning much more LB activities! Subscribe to our newsletter to stay tuned. 

    If you are interested to have a Landscape Biography made for your project, or attend a course, please contact us! 

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    Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes

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    Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'. In Landscape Biographies, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and

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    Landscape Biographies

    Title
    Landscape Biographies

    Subtitle
    Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes

    Editors
    Rita Hermans
    Jan Kolen
    Hans Renes

    Price
    € ,00 excl. VAT

    ISBN

    Format
    Hardback

    Number of pages

    Language
    English

    Publication date
    07 - 05 -

    DOI

    Dimensions
    x cm

    Open Access
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    Series
    Landscape and Heritage Studies

    Category
    Diachronic

    Discipline
    History, Art History, and Archaeology

    Table of Contents
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    Preface Jan Kolen & Johannes Renes: Landscape Biographies: Key Issues Edward H. Huijbens & Gisli Palsson: The marsch of Modernity: The Bog in our Brains and Bowels Jan Kolen: Biographies of Biotopes Edward Huijbens & Karl Benediktsson: Automobile Authorship of Landscapes: A Biographical Vignette of Iceland's Interior Mark Gillings and Joshua Pollard: Authenticity, Artifice, an