Special Topic in Advanced Geography: Half Year / Special Topic II

Topics

• Ideas
• Did you like phenomenology? (read Tuan and Ingold). Were you intrigued by the discussions of race and landscape
• through the history of academia? (read Semple’s Environmental Determinism from the 1920s, then more recent authors
• being used and newly theorized today for biodiversity conservation and also for economics (like the slow food
• US/Mexico border as example)
• Earth? Cosgrove). Or you could explore theories around how cultural landscapes change with time
• Examples of Cultural Landscape Theories
• economics – trade, geography of trade)
• Feminism (gender or other division of activities like age, ethnicity, of power structure, changes through time)
• Phenomenology – the sensory experience of living in Chaco canyon – What was naturally present, what sensory
• experiences were manipulated (visual, auditory etc.) and how was it used for cultural ends?
• of the case study aspect of cultural landscape -example given for agriculture below
• farm there? Or did food come from elsewhere? What technology did they have to increase crop production and thus
• free up more time for ceremonial labour?