An Occasion for Geography: Landscape, Representation, and Foucault's Corpus
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Vol. 10 (1), 41-56
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d100041
Abstract
After it is outlined why this paper is not geared around the term ‘postmodernism’, approaches within Geography and without to the representation of landscape are considered, and a way of analysing representation from the writings of Michel Foucault is developed. Foucault's ideas on power, knowledge, discourse, truth, and genealogy are discussed, and the paper is concluded with an examination of how such ideas might be employed in relation to key themes of geographical enquiry such as nature and place identity, and to the discipline of geography itself.Keywords
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