Progressive Geographies

A new open-access e-journal Literary Geographies is under construction:

Literary Geographies is an interdisciplinary open-access e-journal designed to support and encourage collaboration in the area of literary/geographical studies. Set up in response to the rapid expansion of work in literary geography in recent years, Literary Geographies is a refereed journal designed to provide a platform for work that combines themes and methods from literary studies, cultural geography, cartography and spatial theory. Recognising that the term ‘literary geography’ itself (along with its variants in other languages) has multiple meanings and is practised in a variety of ways within different academic traditions, the journal takes a broad view of its subject matter. The journal was founded and is currently managed by an editorial collective whose members have primary affiliations in literary studies, geography, and area studies and are variously based in the UK, Finland, and Japan. It welcomes submissions from scholars at…

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Tim Ingold is a preeminent anthropologist, Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and author of numerous books on anthropology. Taking an unconventional view of his discipline. Professor Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, looking at the ways in which environments are perceived, shaped, and understood.