Category Archives: Gunnar Olsson

Gunnar Olsson, Arkography: A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted – University of Nebraska Press, May 2020

Gunnar Olsson, Arkography: A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted – University of Nebraska Press, May 2020 In this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene’s blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates … Continue reading

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Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought _ U Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson

Christian Abrahamsson, Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought – University of Nebraska Press, 2018, with preface by Gunnar Olsson In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live … Continue reading

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Gunnar Olsson in Philomag (in French)

Fait exceptionnel, cet article expose les idées d’un auteur quasi inconnu, le géographe suédois Gunnar Olsson, dont le grand œuvre, “Abysmal”, n’a pas été traduit en français. Pourquoi ? Parce que cet homme, à force de scruter des cartes, a forgé … Continue reading

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GO: On the Geographies of Gunnar Olsson

Interesting looking (though expensive) collection on the work of Gunnar Olsson – one of geography’s most original voices. Since the early 1960s, the internationally acclaimed and highly distinguished Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson has made substantial contributions to his own discipline. … Continue reading

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Gunnar Olsson on Reading Kant’s Geography

A detailed and very generous review (which becomes much more) of Reading Kant’s Geography by Gunnar Olsson in Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography (requires subscription): So hot are the connections between the geography/anthropology courses and Kant’s overall philosophy that the … Continue reading

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