Views on the globe

Views on the globe

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

aerial view

cosmography

geographical imagination

The position which consists in observing the earth from above is very old in geography. Yet we should also add that this view from above has been identified in geography - from the very beginning, with the view of the map of the world or of the artificial globe. The map and the “artificial” globe are substitutes for a direct view of the “natural” globe, which is thought to be impossible to the human eye. The aerial view and the view of the map are therefore often confused. It is this ambiguity between the object (the earth) and its representation (the map or the globe) that I would like to discuss and illustrate here. I'll take three examples, chosen from different periods in the history of geography: I will focus 1) on the relationship between the aerial view and philosophical thought; 2) on the question of the geographical imagination; and 3) on the view from the airplane.

Besse, Jean-Marc

The aerial view : spatial knowledges and spatial practices, Edimbourg, Architecture/History of Art

2007-02-07

ENG

conference, seminar, workshop communication

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00191981

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/19/81/PDF/Views_on_the_the_globe.pdf

Edimbourg

United Kingdom