Mountains, mobilities and movement. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christos Kakalis, Emily Goetsch, editors.
• Editors: Kakalis, Christos; Goetsch, Emily
• Contents: Preface; Tim Ingold.- Introduction; Emily Goetsch and Christos Kakalis.- Part 1 Performativity.- Chapter One: Deep and Dark Play in the Alps: Daring Acts and their Retelling; Jonathan Pitches.- Chapter Two: In the Shadow of the Mountain: Tracing the Hesychast Inhabitation of Mount Athos; Christos Kakalis.- Chapter Three: Reading Mountains: Performative Visual Language in 10th century Northern Iberian Monastic Communities; Emily Goetsch.- Chapter Four: 'Ecosophic Cartographies' of Mount Pentelicon; Maria Mitsoula.- Part 2 Changing Perspectives.- Chapter Five: Climbing the Invisible Mountain: The Apse Mosaics at St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai and their Sixth Century Viewers; Andrew Paterson.- Chapter Six: How can be a 'Montagnard'? Social and Political Expressions of Modern Imaginaries of Territoriality; Bernard Debarbieux.- Chapter Seven: A Difficult Line. The Aesthetics of Mountain Climbing 1871 - Present; Anja-Karina Nydal.- Chapter Eight: Untimely Mountains / Entangled Matter; Kim W. Wilson.- Part 3 Mobility.- Chapter Nine: Mountains as a way of seeing: From Mount of Temptation to Mont Blanc; Veronica della Dora.- Chapter Ten: Representing the Landscape of the Sierra Nevada (Granada): A 'Translated' Mountain of Reception of the 19th Century Alpine Geographical Imaginations; Carlos Cornejo-Nieto.- Chapter Eleven: 'I Lift up My Eyes to the Hills…'; George Pattison.- Chapter Twelve: Mountains Run Mad: Picturesque Signatures in the Dolomites; William Bainbridge.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (290 pages)
• Subjects: 551.432; Social sciences; Mountains; Land use -- Social aspects; Mountains in art; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Philosophy -- Reference; Architecture -- Landscape; Sociology; Philosophy; Landscape art & architecture; Human Geography; Environmental sociology; Philosophy of nature; Architecture; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137586353
• Related ISBNs: 9781137586346
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