Geographies of Disorientation

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ID8093774
AuthorsMarcella Schmidt di Friedberg (0000-0001-7465-7927, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages256
Publication date2017-08-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGeographies of disorientation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315584683
OpenAlexW2784526911
Open LibraryOL44080004M
ISBN9781315584683
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Spatial disorientation is of key relevance to our globalized world, eliciting complex questions about our relationship with technology and the last remaining vestiges of our animal nature. Viewed more broadly, disorientation is a profoundly geographical theme that concerns our relationship with space, places, the body, emotions, and time, as well as being a powerful and frequently recurring metaphor in art, philosophy, and literature. Using multiple perspectives, lenses, methodological tools, and scales, Geographies of Disorientation addresses questions such as: How do we orient ourselves? What are the cognitive and cultural instruments that we use to move through space? Why do we get lost? Two main threads run through the book: getting lost as a practice, explored within a post-phenomenological framework in relation to direct and indirect observation, wayfinding performances, and the various methods and tools used to find our position in space; and disorientation as a metaphor for the contemporary era, used in a broad range of contexts to express the difficulty of finding points of reference in the world we live in. Drawing on a wide range of literature, Geographies of Disorientation is a highly original and intruiging read which will be of interest to scholars of human geography, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cognitive science, information technology, and the communication sciences

Geography · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · General · Geographical perception · Orientation (Psychologie) · Orientation (Psychology) · Perception géographique · Perception spatiale · Space perception

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