Denis Cosgrove
Biographic Data
| ID | 90179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Cosgrove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Cosgrove |
| SIGNATURE | COSGROVE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 718 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea
Empire in modern Rome: Shaping and remembering an imperial city, 1870–1911
This chapter focuses on various attempts by successive Italian governments to articulate the imperial identities of antiquity together with the contemporary imperial pretensions of the modern Italian kingdom in the reworked landscapes of central Rome. It argues that ideas of empire and romanità (the Roman Spirit) were crucial and continuing elements of Italian efforts to frame a new and national identity from the late nineteenth century. These id…
Geography's Cosmos The Dream And The Whole Round Earth
Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images - including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, and photographs - to explore and elaborate upon the many and varied ways in which the vast and varied earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined a…
Images and Imagination in 20th-Century Environmentalism: From the Sierras to the Poles
Recent claims that the environmentalist thinking and politics that dominated the last years of the past century were based on outmoded, 'Modernist' categories jibe with academic criticism of dualistic thinking about 'culture' and 'nature', and with attempts to acknowledge the roles of nonhuman agency in the coconstruction of social worlds. While acknowledging the salience of these arguments, the author claims that examination of pictorial images …
Epistemology, Geography, and Cartography: Matthew Edney on Brian Harley's Cartographic Theories
Key Words: cartographygeographygeosophyHarley debatewartime cartography Notes 1. This work emerged out of a session at the 1993 AAG meeting and subsequent discussions of Harley's ideas and legacy at geographical and cartographic meetings. 2. See also Edney (2005 Edney, M. H. 2005. The origins and development of J. B. Harley's cartographic theories. Cartographica, 40(1 &2) Monograph 54 [Google Scholar], 109, n. 3): “this realignment of cartographi…
Modernity, Community and the Landscape Idea
Landscape has recently achieved a broad intellectual prominence as a theoretical concept across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Its complex roots and meanings are scrutinized with particular attention given to the pictorial and scenic aspects of landscape, which are here historicized in relation to processes of cultural modernization. Landscape's roots in territorially based community governed by customary law have never been wholly de…
Tropic and Tropicality
The chapters in this book variously parse the discursive usages of "tropicality" as the concept evolved during the period of most intense European penetration into the geographic spaces and human worlds that bestride the equator. The term "visions" implies and as various chapters here testify, that Europeans did not arrive in tropical latitudes free from presumptions or anticipations about these regions of the globe. The framework of "Voyages," "…
Author's response
Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and Cartography in the Twentieth Century
While the history of cartography has freed itself from debilitating debates over the scientific and artistic status of maps, considerations of the relationship between art and cartography have continued to focus largely on pre‐modern maps, avoiding critical examination of twentieth‐century art and science in cartography and leaving intact the impression that these followed distinct paths in the modern period. In this paper, however, I have drawn …
Mapping Global War: Los Angeles, the Pacific, and Charles Owens's Pictorial Cartography
Writing on popular geographies has emphasized the shaping role of media. Newspapers and magazines, school texts, and atlases, had particular impacts on the twentieth century American geographical imagination, notably during World War II when news cartography became entwined with geopolitical mapping. The wartime mapmaker Richard Edes Harrison has been cited as exemplary of the role graphics played in promoting and popularizing an “air-age” geogra…
Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination
"In Apollo's Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.". "Cosgrove's…
Globalism and Tolerance in Early Modern Geography
Geography's voice within the debates on cosmopolitan citizenship initiated by Martha Nussbaum's 1994 Nussbaum, M. C. 1996. “Patriotism and cosmopolitanism”. In For love of country: Debating the limits of patriotism, Edited by: Cohen, Joshua. 2–17. Boston: Beacon Press. First appeared in The Boston Review October/November 1994, 3–6. Reprinted in [Google Scholar] restatement of Stoic cosmopolitanism has been strangely muted, especially given the si…
Cultural Geographies in Practice: Anti-Ecumene
Millennial Geographics
Urban Rhetoric and Embodied Identities: City, Nation, and Empire at the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument in Rome, 1870–1945
This essay examines the monument constructed by the Italian state in the center of Rome to commemorate Vittorio-Emanuele II, first king of united Italy. Opened in 1911 and constructed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style popular at that time as appropriately “imperial” for urban monuments throughout the West, the Vittoriano's symbolism and iconography produce a “memory theater” through which the official rhetoric of a united and imperial Italy w…
Introduction: Project Plowshare
The appointment of a new North American editor
Inhabiting modern landscape
Archaeology, anthropology, human geography: three disciplines born out of a nineteenth-century imperative among Europeans to apply a coherent model of understanding (Wissen-schaft) to varied forms of social life within a differentiated physical world; three disciplines stretched between the epistemology and methods of the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften) which promised certainty, and the hermeneutic reflexivity and critical doubt of the Hum…
Harris, R.C. 1971: Theory and synthesis in historical geography. Canadian Geographer 15, 157-72
Ideas and Culture: A Response to Don Mitchell
Windows on the City
Nigel Thrift's strictures against reading technological change and the emergence of information space as evidence for increased urban dehumanisation are well founded. Throughout the Modern period, distrust of the performative aspects of urban life has characterised puritan criticism and is linked to an elevation of textual over visual authority. Human corporeality resists techno-power; it has the capacity to escape sociological categorisation as …
Landscape and Identity at Ladybower Reservoir and Rutland Water
Large-scale water control projects have been a major component of environmental engineering and landscape transformation during the twentieth century, creating some of its most characteristic modernist forms. The discourses generated by their design and implementation articulate diverse and often opposing cultural identities. Those surrounding the design and construction of reservoirs at Ladybower (1935-45), in what is now the Peak District Natio…
Special Issue: Colonialism and postcolonialism in the former British Empire
Mapping the Modern Nation: Dudley Stamp and the Land Utilisation Survey
Simon Rycroft, Denis Cosgrove; Mapping the Modern Nation: Dudley Stamp and the Land Utilisation Survey, History Workshop Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1, 1 Oct
Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea
Contested Global Visions: One-World, Whole-Earth , and the Apollo Space Photographs
The paper examines two photographs of the Earth taken during the Apollo Space program in 1968 and 1972 as representations of the Earth whose cartographic significance is of less importance than their relations with the contemporary Western geographical imagination. Earthrise and AS17-148-22727 are unique as eyewitness photographs of the terracqueous globe. They are interpreted within a historical context of seeing and representation in which West…
Towards a Radical Cultural Geography: Problems of Theory
The meaning of the built environment: A Nonverbal Communication Approach
Urban Rhetoric and Embodied Identities: City, Nation, and Empire at the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument in Rome, 1870–1945
This essay examines the monument constructed by the Italian state in the center of Rome to commemorate Vittorio-Emanuele II, first king of united Italy. Opened in 1911 and constructed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style popular at that time as appropriately “imperial” for urban monuments throughout the West, the Vittoriano's symbolism and iconography produce a “memory theater” through which the official rhetoric of a united and imperial Italy w…
Conceptions of Space in Social Thought: A Geographic Perspective
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments
John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination
Landscape and Identity at Ladybower Reservoir and Rutland Water
Large-scale water control projects have been a major component of environmental engineering and landscape transformation during the twentieth century, creating some of its most characteristic modernist forms. The discourses generated by their design and implementation articulate diverse and often opposing cultural identities. Those surrounding the design and construction of reservoirs at Ladybower (1935-45), in what is now the Peak District Natio…
Modernity, Community and the Landscape Idea
Landscape has recently achieved a broad intellectual prominence as a theoretical concept across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Its complex roots and meanings are scrutinized with particular attention given to the pictorial and scenic aspects of landscape, which are here historicized in relation to processes of cultural modernization. Landscape's roots in territorially based community governed by customary law have never been wholly de…
Environmental Thought and Action: Pre-Modern and Post-Modern
The paper notes certain features of the post-modern debate within geography and in science generally: the crisis of foundationalism and the revision of geographical historiography. It draws parallels between these and aspects of natural philosophy at the opening of the 'modern' period in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A progressive historiography of geographical science is challenged and the continued significance of analogic…
Images and Imagination in 20th-Century Environmentalism: From the Sierras to the Poles
Recent claims that the environmentalist thinking and politics that dominated the last years of the past century were based on outmoded, 'Modernist' categories jibe with academic criticism of dualistic thinking about 'culture' and 'nature', and with attempts to acknowledge the roles of nonhuman agency in the coconstruction of social worlds. While acknowledging the salience of these arguments, the author claims that examination of pictorial images …
The myth and the stones of Venice: An historical geography of a symbolic landscape
Place, Landscape, and the Dialectics of Cultural Geography
Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and Cartography in the Twentieth Century
While the history of cartography has freed itself from debilitating debates over the scientific and artistic status of maps, considerations of the relationship between art and cartography have continued to focus largely on pre‐modern maps, avoiding critical examination of twentieth‐century art and science in cartography and leaving intact the impression that these followed distinct paths in the modern period. In this paper, however, I have drawn …
Fieldwork as theatre: A week's performance in venice and its region
The conventions of fieldwork are reassessed in the light of teaching a week's field course on the landscape and culture of Venice and its region. The metaphor of 'theatre' helps conceptualise the present post‐structuralist insistence on representation in relations between land and life, as well as the more traditional geographic emphasis on observation. The metaphor of theatre is articulated through the exercises of the fieldwork, including urban…
Mapping Global War: Los Angeles, the Pacific, and Charles Owens's Pictorial Cartography
Writing on popular geographies has emphasized the shaping role of media. Newspapers and magazines, school texts, and atlases, had particular impacts on the twentieth century American geographical imagination, notably during World War II when news cartography became entwined with geopolitical mapping. The wartime mapmaker Richard Edes Harrison has been cited as exemplary of the role graphics played in promoting and popularizing an “air-age” geogra…
Globalism and Tolerance in Early Modern Geography
Geography's voice within the debates on cosmopolitan citizenship initiated by Martha Nussbaum's 1994 Nussbaum, M. C. 1996. “Patriotism and cosmopolitanism”. In For love of country: Debating the limits of patriotism, Edited by: Cohen, Joshua. 2–17. Boston: Beacon Press. First appeared in The Boston Review October/November 1994, 3–6. Reprinted in [Google Scholar] restatement of Stoic cosmopolitanism has been strangely muted, especially given the si…
Landscape studies in geography and cognate fields of the humanities and social sciences
Mapping new worlds: Culture and cartography in sixteenth‐century Venice
Then we take Berlin: Cultural geography 1989-90
Ideas and Culture: A Response to Don Mitchell
Orders and a new world: Cultural geography 1990-91
Millennial Geographics
A terrain of metaphor: Cultural geography 1988-89
Place, Landscape, and the Dialectics of Cultural Geography
Ron Johnston and structuralism
John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination
Teaching geographical thought through student interviews
A ten‐week experimental course in the history of post‐war geographical thought involved final‐year undergraduates at Oxford Polytechnic. It consisted of student‐led interviews of the geography staff The advantages and disadvantages of this method are outlined
The myth and the stones of Venice: An historical geography of a symbolic landscape
The Form of Cities
Geography as opera: The i.g.u. Working Party on Historical Changes in Spatial Organization (Hischsporg) Meeting in Rome, September 1982
Towards a Radical Cultural Geography: Problems of Theory
Conceptions of Space in Social Thought: A Geographic Perspective
Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea
David Harvey's Geography
1. Introduction. 2. Logical Empricist Geography: Scientific Explanation and Theory 3. Embracing Marxist Method: From Social Justice to Operational Structuralism 4. Applying Marxist Method: Urbanism under Capitalism and the Marxist Analytical Framework 5. Conclusion. Appendix: David Harvey's Writings, 1961-1981. Bibliography. Indices
The meaning of the built environment: A Nonverbal Communication Approach
Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape
Landscape Meanings and Values
Geography is Everywhere: Culture and Symbolism in Human Landscapes
On Saturday mornings I am not, consciously, a geographer. I am, like so many other people of my age and lifestyle, to be found shopping with my family in my local town-centre precinct. It is not a very special place, artificially illuminated under the multi-storey car park, containing an entirely predictable collection of chain stores — W.H. Smith, Top Shop, Baxters, Boots, Safeway and others — fairly crowded with well-dressed, comfortable family…
Fieldwork as theatre: A week's performance in venice and its region
The conventions of fieldwork are reassessed in the light of teaching a week's field course on the landscape and culture of Venice and its region. The metaphor of 'theatre' helps conceptualise the present post‐structuralist insistence on representation in relations between land and life, as well as the more traditional geographic emphasis on observation. The metaphor of theatre is articulated through the exercises of the fieldwork, including urban…
A terrain of metaphor: Cultural geography 1988-89
The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of past Environments
Then we take Berlin: Cultural geography 1989-90
Byzantium and venice: A study in diplomatic and cultural relations
Venetian vernacular architecture: Traditional housing in the Venetian lagoon
Artisans and architects: The Ruskinian tradition in architectural thought
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