Jos Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 5129785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jos Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jos |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing Faculty of Humanities University of East Anglia Norwich UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3826-6416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The New Nature Writing
Review essay
Vibrant localism: The lure of Common Ground
This paper explores the emergence of the arts and environmental charity Common Ground and their association with authors such as John Fowles and Alice Oswald. Drawing on the background of its founding members in environmental activism of the 1970s, it suggests a relationship between the charity’s response to the Thatcherite 1980s and the aesthetic strategies of the postmodern novel. But is also traces this into more recent preoccupations with an …
Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project
Scepticism about the value of parochialism and local belonging has been a persistent feature of geographical scholarship, which has advocated a relational account of place and a cosmopolitan worldview. This paper revisits the Parish Maps project that was instigated in 1987 by UK arts and environment charity Common Ground, which led to the creation of thousands of maps across the UK and beyond, and was appraised in 1996 by Crouch and Matless in th…
Coastal Works
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland, the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many artists, coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island r…
‘Felt Routes’: Culture of the Atlantic Edge
In ‘Ode’ (1935), Louis MacNeice writes of the necessity to ‘become the migrating bird following felt routes...And without soaring or swerving win by ignoring / The endlessly curving sea and so come to one’s home’. Much has been written about MacNeice’s search for ‘home’, his fraught relationship with Ulster, Ireland, and England, and about the difficulty of his ‘place’ within either Irish or English literary traditions. John Kerrigan has suggeste…
The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as ‘The New Nature Writing’. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment–focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary ene…
Anticipating Deep Mapping: Tracing the Spatial Practice of Tim Robinson
There has been little academic research published on the work of Tim Robinson despite an illustrious career, first as an artist of the London avant-garde, then as a map-maker in the west of Ireland, and finally as an author of place. In part, this dearth is due to the difficulty of approaching these three diverse strands collectively. However, recent developments in the field of deep mapping encourage us to look back at the continuity of Robinson…
The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as ‘The New Nature Writing’. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment–focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary ene…
Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project
Scepticism about the value of parochialism and local belonging has been a persistent feature of geographical scholarship, which has advocated a relational account of place and a cosmopolitan worldview. This paper revisits the Parish Maps project that was instigated in 1987 by UK arts and environment charity Common Ground, which led to the creation of thousands of maps across the UK and beyond, and was appraised in 1996 by Crouch and Matless in th…
Anticipating Deep Mapping: Tracing the Spatial Practice of Tim Robinson
There has been little academic research published on the work of Tim Robinson despite an illustrious career, first as an artist of the London avant-garde, then as a map-maker in the west of Ireland, and finally as an author of place. In part, this dearth is due to the difficulty of approaching these three diverse strands collectively. However, recent developments in the field of deep mapping encourage us to look back at the continuity of Robinson…
Coastal Works
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland, the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many artists, coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island r…
‘Felt Routes’: Culture of the Atlantic Edge
In ‘Ode’ (1935), Louis MacNeice writes of the necessity to ‘become the migrating bird following felt routes...And without soaring or swerving win by ignoring / The endlessly curving sea and so come to one’s home’. Much has been written about MacNeice’s search for ‘home’, his fraught relationship with Ulster, Ireland, and England, and about the difficulty of his ‘place’ within either Irish or English literary traditions. John Kerrigan has suggeste…
The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as ‘The New Nature Writing’. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment–focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary ene…
Vibrant localism: The lure of Common Ground
This paper explores the emergence of the arts and environmental charity Common Ground and their association with authors such as John Fowles and Alice Oswald. Drawing on the background of its founding members in environmental activism of the 1970s, it suggests a relationship between the charity’s response to the Thatcherite 1980s and the aesthetic strategies of the postmodern novel. But is also traces this into more recent preoccupations with an …
Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns: Revisiting Common Ground's Parish Maps project
Scepticism about the value of parochialism and local belonging has been a persistent feature of geographical scholarship, which has advocated a relational account of place and a cosmopolitan worldview. This paper revisits the Parish Maps project that was instigated in 1987 by UK arts and environment charity Common Ground, which led to the creation of thousands of maps across the UK and beyond, and was appraised in 1996 by Crouch and Matless in th…
The New Nature Writing
Review essay
Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Localism (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archipelagic state (2 works)