Options
Mirrors, masks and diverse milieux
Author(s)
Date Issued
12 January 1990
Date Available
06T10:41:53Z June 2019
Abstract
Was Ihr den Geist der Zeiten heist
Das ist im Grund der Herren eigner Geist
In dem die Zeiten sich bespiegeln…
(Faust)
(And what you call the Spirit of the Ages
Is that the spirit of your learned sages
The times a-mirroring…)
At Columbus, Ohio, where the Association of American Geographers met in 1965, there was obviously something new in the air. Eminent geographers and psychologists charmed a packed auditorium with ideas about environmental behaviour and perception. This new frontier was to welcome not only interdisciplinary research, but it was also to offer a common focus of curiosity to geographers of both ‘man-land’ and ‘spatial’ traditions. Why, even the age-old impasse between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ orientations could be transcended. Some 17 years later in San Antonio, Texas, the same Association hosted sessions on environmental perception. One caught a glimpse of the volume and variety of research which the intervening years had produced and, even more, one noted the drama of a selective migration of ideas back and forth across the Atlantic: Marxist, positivist, phenomenological, and structuralist approaches were juxtaposed, not always too harmoniously.
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
Routledge
Start Page
253
End Page
276
Copyright (Published Version)
1989 the Authors
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
Part of
Boal, F.W., Livingstone, D.N. (eds.). The Behavioural Environment: Essays in Reflection, Application and Re-evaluation
ISBN
978-0415004541
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
Owning collection
Views
686
Acquisition Date
Dec 8, 2023
Dec 8, 2023
Downloads
168
Last Month
2
2
Acquisition Date
Dec 8, 2023
Dec 8, 2023