Mountains, Mobilities and Movement

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kakalis, Christos (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Goetsch, Emily (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Human geography.; Environmental sociology.; Philosophy of nature.; Landscape architecture.; Human Geography.; Environmental Sociology.; Philosophy of Nature.; Landscape Architecture.

This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms. In highlighting the fluid attributes of mountains the authors offer an alternative to the traditional approach of the sciences and the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.