David Matle
Biographic Data
| ID | 84610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Matle |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Matle |
| SIGNATURE | MATLE D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 418 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
About England
Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic
The Anthroposcenic
This paper presents the ‘Anthroposcenic’ as a geographical contribution to debates around the Anthropocene, deploying the insights of cultural and historical geography to ask how thinking through landscape and time might shape understanding. The paper begins by elaborating on the term ‘Anthroposcenic’, foregrounding the ways in which landscape becomes emblematic of environmental transformation, and reflects further on geological wordplay in scien…
In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads
A regional conversation
Describing Landscape: Regional sites
Nature voices
Landscape, mobility, practice
This paper is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on 'Landscape, Mobility and Practice' which was held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference in September 2006. In the paper the panel engage with the work of geographers and others who have been drawing upon theories of practice to explore issues of mobility and how we encounter, apprehend, inhabit and move through landscapes. The con…
A geography of ghosts: The spectral landscapes of Mary Butts
The paper considers the writings of Mary Butts (1890-1937) to explore a geography of ghosts. After examining earlier geographical engagements with the spectral and magical, and outlining the terms of recent scholarly debate concerning spectrality, the paper introduces Butts' life and work, focussing on her ghostly writings in stories, novels, journals, autobiography and an essay on the supernatural in fiction. Butts' discussion of magic and place…
Encountering soviet geography: Oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945–1991
This paper considers the history of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991, presenting material from a research project which has included thirty-two oral history interviews. Oral history is an especially fruitful research methodology in this context due to the distinct issues of formality and informality involved in researching the Soviet bloc. After discussing the nature of the subdiscipline and the Cold War conte…
Properties of ancient landscape: The present prehistoric in twentieth-century Breckland
Geographies of Local Life: Marietta Pallis and Friends, Long Gores, Hickling, Norfolk
This paper concerns a group of educated women of independent means and their relationship to a Norfolk village and its people in the early 20th and mid-20th century. The focal figure is Marietta Pallis (1882-1963), ecologist and artist, who rented and then owned the marshland property of Long Gores, Hickling. In this paper we consider Pallis and friends' engagement with land and its management, their relationship to the locality as residents and …
Animal landscapes: Otters and wildfowl in England 1945–1970
The paper considers otter hunting and wildfowling in England between 1945 and 1970, showing how arguments over human conduct in relation to the animal were linked to scientific studies of populations, moral arguments over cruelty and the abilities of field sports to restyle themselves as modern. If wildfowling restyles itself as a new conservationist practice, otter hunting is increasingly regarded as a form of landed barbarism. Detailed studies …
Sonic geography in a nature region
This paper considers the sonic geography of a region since the late nineteenth century, taking material from the Norfolk Broads, a wetland region in eastern England. This area has been defined through competing cultures of nature and leisure, with the presence, absence and nature of sound a key concern. The theme of sonic geography is set within debates concerning the nature of regional identity, moral geographies of conduct in landscape, and use…
Original theories: Science and the Currency of the Local
In 1960 the Royal Geographical Society published The making of the Broads: a reconsideration of their origin in the light of new evidence. This monograph, the work of an interdisciplinary team, argued that the shallow lakes of the Norfolk Broads in eastern England had their origins in the medieval peat-digging industry. This paper shows how the origins work can be understood in terms of debates and tensions concerning the cultural authority of sc…
Benign ecology: Marietta Pallis and the floating fen of the delta of the Danube, 1912-1916
This paper considers the work of the ecologist Marietta Pallis (1882-1963), retracing the fieldwork associated with her 1916 paper on 'The structure and history of Plav', the floating fen of the Danube delta. Attending to links between field and home, politics and ecology, the paper explores how field cultures are implicated in the mutual and imaginative constitution of nature and society. The paper examines the scientific culture within which Pa…
Topographic Culture: Nikolaus Pevsner and the Buildings of England
Journal Article Topographic Culture: Nikolaus Pevsner and the Buildings of England Get access David Matless David Matless Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2002, Pages 73–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/54.1.73 Published: 01 January 2002
Bodies made of grass made of earth made of bodies: Organicism, diet and national health in mid-twentieth-century England
Action and Noise Over a Hundred Years: The Making of a Nature Region
This article explores the cultures of nature and the body in the Norfolk Broads region of eastern England, where relations of body and nature are central to culture and economy. Themes of moral geography and history are shown to run through the production of Broadland as a nature region over the past 100 years. The article discusses the contrasting presentation of the region as a space of improving and non-improving pleasure, the assertion of the…
Landscape and Englishness
The Place of Music
Moral geographies of english landscape
This paper uses the theme of moral geographies to address the cultures of landscape and leisure. Focusing on material from England in the 1930s and 1940s, it argues that questions of leisure in the countryside were presented in terms of citizenship, with intellectual, spiritual and physical cultures of landscape being combined as a means to ‘improve’ the citizen. Always, however, these definitions of citizenship worked in relation to the figure o…
Effects of History
In The geographical tradition, Livingstone (1992, 29), arguing against a reductionist approach to the history of ideas whereby the meaning of a text is exhausted by its socio-political context, calls for an engagement with 'the reciprocity of text and context'. Livingstone's work though remains very much driven by the intellectual text. The geographical tradition is a rich history of ideas, taking ideas off their academic pedestal, mocking preten…
A Solo Ecology: The Erratic Art of Andy Goldsworthy
Moral Geography in Broadland
Landscape, mobility, practice
This paper is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on 'Landscape, Mobility and Practice' which was held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference in September 2006. In the paper the panel engage with the work of geographers and others who have been drawing upon theories of practice to explore issues of mobility and how we encounter, apprehend, inhabit and move through landscapes. The con…
Sonic geography in a nature region
This paper considers the sonic geography of a region since the late nineteenth century, taking material from the Norfolk Broads, a wetland region in eastern England. This area has been defined through competing cultures of nature and leisure, with the presence, absence and nature of sound a key concern. The theme of sonic geography is set within debates concerning the nature of regional identity, moral geographies of conduct in landscape, and use…
Moral geographies of english landscape
This paper uses the theme of moral geographies to address the cultures of landscape and leisure. Focusing on material from England in the 1930s and 1940s, it argues that questions of leisure in the countryside were presented in terms of citizenship, with intellectual, spiritual and physical cultures of landscape being combined as a means to ‘improve’ the citizen. Always, however, these definitions of citizenship worked in relation to the figure o…
Animal landscapes: Otters and wildfowl in England 1945–1970
The paper considers otter hunting and wildfowling in England between 1945 and 1970, showing how arguments over human conduct in relation to the animal were linked to scientific studies of populations, moral arguments over cruelty and the abilities of field sports to restyle themselves as modern. If wildfowling restyles itself as a new conservationist practice, otter hunting is increasingly regarded as a form of landed barbarism. Detailed studies …
An Occasion for Geography: Landscape, Representation, and Foucault's Corpus
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 …
A geography of ghosts: The spectral landscapes of Mary Butts
The paper considers the writings of Mary Butts (1890-1937) to explore a geography of ghosts. After examining earlier geographical engagements with the spectral and magical, and outlining the terms of recent scholarly debate concerning spectrality, the paper introduces Butts' life and work, focussing on her ghostly writings in stories, novels, journals, autobiography and an essay on the supernatural in fiction. Butts' discussion of magic and place…
In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads
The Anthroposcenic
This paper presents the ‘Anthroposcenic’ as a geographical contribution to debates around the Anthropocene, deploying the insights of cultural and historical geography to ask how thinking through landscape and time might shape understanding. The paper begins by elaborating on the term ‘Anthroposcenic’, foregrounding the ways in which landscape becomes emblematic of environmental transformation, and reflects further on geological wordplay in scien…
A Modern Stream: Water, Landscape, Modernism, and Geography
In this paper a conjunction of geography, environmental thought, and modernism in the early twentieth century is discussed, around the metaphor of 'a modern stream'. It is focused on the work of Patrick Geddes and Vaughan Cornish. After an outline of Geddes's conceptions of human and environmental evolution and progress, the focus is on the writings of Geddes, Cornish, and Lewis Mumford on nature, technology, and electricity are discussed. Cornis…
Action and Noise Over a Hundred Years: The Making of a Nature Region
This article explores the cultures of nature and the body in the Norfolk Broads region of eastern England, where relations of body and nature are central to culture and economy. Themes of moral geography and history are shown to run through the production of Broadland as a nature region over the past 100 years. The article discusses the contrasting presentation of the region as a space of improving and non-improving pleasure, the assertion of the…
A Solo Ecology: The Erratic Art of Andy Goldsworthy
Original theories: Science and the Currency of the Local
In 1960 the Royal Geographical Society published The making of the Broads: a reconsideration of their origin in the light of new evidence. This monograph, the work of an interdisciplinary team, argued that the shallow lakes of the Norfolk Broads in eastern England had their origins in the medieval peat-digging industry. This paper shows how the origins work can be understood in terms of debates and tensions concerning the cultural authority of sc…
Bodies made of grass made of earth made of bodies: Organicism, diet and national health in mid-twentieth-century England
Moral Geography in Broadland
Encountering soviet geography: Oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945–1991
This paper considers the history of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991, presenting material from a research project which has included thirty-two oral history interviews. Oral history is an especially fruitful research methodology in this context due to the distinct issues of formality and informality involved in researching the Soviet bloc. After discussing the nature of the subdiscipline and the Cold War conte…
Describing Landscape: Regional sites
Properties of ancient landscape: The present prehistoric in twentieth-century Breckland
Geographies of Local Life: Marietta Pallis and Friends, Long Gores, Hickling, Norfolk
This paper concerns a group of educated women of independent means and their relationship to a Norfolk village and its people in the early 20th and mid-20th century. The focal figure is Marietta Pallis (1882-1963), ecologist and artist, who rented and then owned the marshland property of Long Gores, Hickling. In this paper we consider Pallis and friends' engagement with land and its management, their relationship to the locality as residents and …
Nature voices
Benign ecology: Marietta Pallis and the floating fen of the delta of the Danube, 1912-1916
This paper considers the work of the ecologist Marietta Pallis (1882-1963), retracing the fieldwork associated with her 1916 paper on 'The structure and history of Plav', the floating fen of the Danube delta. Attending to links between field and home, politics and ecology, the paper explores how field cultures are implicated in the mutual and imaginative constitution of nature and society. The paper examines the scientific culture within which Pa…
Effects of History
In The geographical tradition, Livingstone (1992, 29), arguing against a reductionist approach to the history of ideas whereby the meaning of a text is exhausted by its socio-political context, calls for an engagement with 'the reciprocity of text and context'. Livingstone's work though remains very much driven by the intellectual text. The geographical tradition is a rich history of ideas, taking ideas off their academic pedestal, mocking preten…
Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic
Geography and Postmodernism
A regional conversation
An Occasion for Geography: Landscape, Representation, and Foucault's Corpus
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 …
A Modern Stream: Water, Landscape, Modernism, and Geography
In this paper a conjunction of geography, environmental thought, and modernism in the early twentieth century is discussed, around the metaphor of 'a modern stream'. It is focused on the work of Patrick Geddes and Vaughan Cornish. After an outline of Geddes's conceptions of human and environmental evolution and progress, the focus is on the writings of Geddes, Cornish, and Lewis Mumford on nature, technology, and electricity are discussed. Cornis…
Geography and Postmodernism
Moral Geography in Broadland
Effects of History
In The geographical tradition, Livingstone (1992, 29), arguing against a reductionist approach to the history of ideas whereby the meaning of a text is exhausted by its socio-political context, calls for an engagement with 'the reciprocity of text and context'. Livingstone's work though remains very much driven by the intellectual text. The geographical tradition is a rich history of ideas, taking ideas off their academic pedestal, mocking preten…
A Solo Ecology: The Erratic Art of Andy Goldsworthy
Moral geographies of english landscape
This paper uses the theme of moral geographies to address the cultures of landscape and leisure. Focusing on material from England in the 1930s and 1940s, it argues that questions of leisure in the countryside were presented in terms of citizenship, with intellectual, spiritual and physical cultures of landscape being combined as a means to ‘improve’ the citizen. Always, however, these definitions of citizenship worked in relation to the figure o…
Landscape and Englishness
The Place of Music
Action and Noise Over a Hundred Years: The Making of a Nature Region
This article explores the cultures of nature and the body in the Norfolk Broads region of eastern England, where relations of body and nature are central to culture and economy. Themes of moral geography and history are shown to run through the production of Broadland as a nature region over the past 100 years. The article discusses the contrasting presentation of the region as a space of improving and non-improving pleasure, the assertion of the…
Bodies made of grass made of earth made of bodies: Organicism, diet and national health in mid-twentieth-century England
Topographic Culture: Nikolaus Pevsner and the Buildings of England
Journal Article Topographic Culture: Nikolaus Pevsner and the Buildings of England Get access David Matless David Matless Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, AUTUMN 2002, Pages 73–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/54.1.73 Published: 01 January 2002
Original theories: Science and the Currency of the Local
In 1960 the Royal Geographical Society published The making of the Broads: a reconsideration of their origin in the light of new evidence. This monograph, the work of an interdisciplinary team, argued that the shallow lakes of the Norfolk Broads in eastern England had their origins in the medieval peat-digging industry. This paper shows how the origins work can be understood in terms of debates and tensions concerning the cultural authority of sc…
Benign ecology: Marietta Pallis and the floating fen of the delta of the Danube, 1912-1916
This paper considers the work of the ecologist Marietta Pallis (1882-1963), retracing the fieldwork associated with her 1916 paper on 'The structure and history of Plav', the floating fen of the Danube delta. Attending to links between field and home, politics and ecology, the paper explores how field cultures are implicated in the mutual and imaginative constitution of nature and society. The paper examines the scientific culture within which Pa…
Animal landscapes: Otters and wildfowl in England 1945–1970
The paper considers otter hunting and wildfowling in England between 1945 and 1970, showing how arguments over human conduct in relation to the animal were linked to scientific studies of populations, moral arguments over cruelty and the abilities of field sports to restyle themselves as modern. If wildfowling restyles itself as a new conservationist practice, otter hunting is increasingly regarded as a form of landed barbarism. Detailed studies …
Sonic geography in a nature region
This paper considers the sonic geography of a region since the late nineteenth century, taking material from the Norfolk Broads, a wetland region in eastern England. This area has been defined through competing cultures of nature and leisure, with the presence, absence and nature of sound a key concern. The theme of sonic geography is set within debates concerning the nature of regional identity, moral geographies of conduct in landscape, and use…
Encountering soviet geography: Oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945–1991
This paper considers the history of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991, presenting material from a research project which has included thirty-two oral history interviews. Oral history is an especially fruitful research methodology in this context due to the distinct issues of formality and informality involved in researching the Soviet bloc. After discussing the nature of the subdiscipline and the Cold War conte…
Properties of ancient landscape: The present prehistoric in twentieth-century Breckland
Geographies of Local Life: Marietta Pallis and Friends, Long Gores, Hickling, Norfolk
This paper concerns a group of educated women of independent means and their relationship to a Norfolk village and its people in the early 20th and mid-20th century. The focal figure is Marietta Pallis (1882-1963), ecologist and artist, who rented and then owned the marshland property of Long Gores, Hickling. In this paper we consider Pallis and friends' engagement with land and its management, their relationship to the locality as residents and …
Landscape, mobility, practice
This paper is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on 'Landscape, Mobility and Practice' which was held at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference in September 2006. In the paper the panel engage with the work of geographers and others who have been drawing upon theories of practice to explore issues of mobility and how we encounter, apprehend, inhabit and move through landscapes. The con…
A geography of ghosts: The spectral landscapes of Mary Butts
The paper considers the writings of Mary Butts (1890-1937) to explore a geography of ghosts. After examining earlier geographical engagements with the spectral and magical, and outlining the terms of recent scholarly debate concerning spectrality, the paper introduces Butts' life and work, focussing on her ghostly writings in stories, novels, journals, autobiography and an essay on the supernatural in fiction. Butts' discussion of magic and place…
Nature voices
Describing Landscape: Regional sites
A regional conversation
In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads
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