Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure: Rethinking Frontiers

ISBN-13: 9781138701120 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Hayley Saul; Emma Waterton

Opis

Scholarly debates often entertain the perspective that 'the frontier makes the man'. This book considers human-frontier relations to be mutually constitutive and transformative and explores the range of 'frontiers' that we encounter in different 'spheres' of our life. It recognises that in experiences of extreme landscapes, risky physical and social endeavours, or at the fringes of human experience, a more complex and subtle emotional geography can be charted. This book seeks to curate the experiences of frontiers as spaces of transformation, exploration and adventure. It reflects on the nature, form and experience of frontiers in terms of individual engagements, cultural encounters, extreme or challenging experiences, danger and risk. It considers the frontier an experience where meaning is constituted from affective and emotional registers. It draws on a rich seam of critique that has developed that troubles the centrality of representational thinking, drawing on the more-than-human, the more-than-representational, post-humanism, new materialities and the politics of affect. With contributions from scholars, explores, and researchers, the chapters offer accounts of individual experiences and insightful interpretations from geographical, historical, feminist, post-colonial, anthropological, cosmopolitan and cultural studies perspectives.

Spis treści

Part I: Transformation 1: Taboo Desires? James Baldwin, African Americans, Homo-Eroticism and the Frontiers of Mind/Place/Race and Sex 2: The Spanish Imaginary: A Trilogy of Frontiers 3: Under a Volcano: A Journey through Ruin and Regeneration in Bali 4: Facing a New Frontier: Defining Nature and Culture within Dinosaur Parks in Europe Part II: Exploration 5: The Ogre 6: Kelakua 7: ‘Challenging Demoniacal Beings’: Extinction, Materialities and the Mortal Frontier in the Journeys of Alexandra David-Neel 8: Everest and the Himalaya: The Evolution of Mountain Travel and Exploration Part III: Adventure 9: Freefalling the Water Column: Raptures and Ruptures of the Deep 10: Women Mountaineers and Affect: Fear, Play and the Unknown 11: ‘Frontier Climbing’ in the Wild, Wild East 12: On the Trail of the New Frontier: Doing Things the Hard Way in Australian Overland Travel