A Geography of the Lifeworld (Routledge Revivals): Movement, Rest and EncounterWithin the modern Western lifestyle increasing conflict is becoming apparent between that patchwork of isolated points such as the home or the office, which are linked by a mechanical system of transportation and communication devices, and a growing sense of homelessness and isolation. This work, first published in 1979, adopts a phenomenological perspective illustrating that this malaise may have partial roots in the deepening rupture between people and place. Whereas the problems of terrestrial space may have been overcome technologically and economically, it has been less successful regarding people. Experience indicates that people become bound to locality, and the quality of their life is thus reduced if these bonds are disrupted or broken in any way. The relationship between community and place is investigated, as is the opportunity for improving the environment, both from a human and an ecological perspective. This book will be of interest to students of human geography. |
Contents
Movement in the Geographical World | |
Cognitive and Behaviourist Theories of Movement | |
Habit and the Notion of BodySubject | |
MerleauPonty and Learning for BodySubject | |
Perception and a Continuum Of Awareness | |
Fluctuation Obliviousness and Watching | |
Noticing and Heightened Contact | |
Basic Contact Encounter and AtHomeness | |
Implications for Environmental Io Theory and Education | |
Searching Out a Whole | |
Movement and Rest | |
The Triad of Habituality | |
Body and Place Choreographies | |
Implications for Environmental Theory and Design | |
Rest in the Geographical World | |
AtHomeness and Territoriality | |
Centres Places for Things and the Notion of FeelingSubject | |
The Home and AtHomeness | |
Implications for Environmental Theory Education and Design | |
Encounter with the Geographical World | |
Place Ballet as a Whole | |
Evaluating the Environmental Experience Groups | |
Behavioural Geography Phenomenology and Environmental Experience | |
Selected Observations from Clark Environmental Experience Groups September 1974May 1975 | |
Commentaries on the Clark Environmental Experience Groups | |
Organising an Environmental Experience Group | |
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A Geography of the Lifeworld (Routledge Revivals): Movement, Rest and Encounter David Seamon No preview available - 2015 |
A Geography of the Lifeworld (Routledge Revivals): Movement, Rest and Encounter David Seamon No preview available - 2016 |