scholarly journals The screams all sound the same: The music of Of Monsters and Men and the Icelandic imaginary as geographical discourse

Area ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
Fiona Tweed ◽  
Allan Watson
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Discourse

scholarly journals Place matters: geographical context, place belonging and the production of locality in Mediterranean Noirs

GeoJournal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Gabellieri
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Geographical Discourse ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Narrative Medium ◽  
Geographical Context

AbstractScholars have been investigating detective stories and crime fiction mostly as literary works reflecting the societies that produced them and the movement from modernism to postmodernism. However, these genres have generally been neglected by literary geographers. In the attempt to fill such an epistemological vacuum, this paper examines and compare the function and importance of geography in both classic and late 20th century detective stories. Arthur Conan Doyle’s and Agatha Christie’s detective stories are compared to Mediterranean noir books by Manuel Montalbán, Andrea Camilleri and Jean Claude Izzo. While space is shown to be at the center of the investigations in the former two authors, the latter rather focus on place, that is space invested by the authors with meaning and feelings of identity and belonging. From this perspective, the article argues that detective investigations have become a narrative medium allowing the readership to explore the writer’s representation/construction of his own territorial context, or place-setting, which functions as a co-protagonist of the novel. In conclusion, the paper suggests that the emerging role of place in some of the later popular crime fiction can be interpreted as the result of writer’s sentiment of belonging and, according to Appadurai’s theory, as a literary and geographical discourse aimed at the production of locality.

scholarly journals The Quest for “Siwilai”: A Geographical Discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Siam

2000 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thongchai Winichakul
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
English Word ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Special Lecture ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Geographical Discourse

On 27 december 1932, prince bhidayalongkorn, the President of the Royal Institute of Siam, delivered a special lecture titled “What are the conditions called ‘siwilai’?” [Phawa yangrai no thi riakwa khwam siwilai]. Transliterated from the English word civilized, the term was widely used in public without elaboration. Bhidayalongkorn reported that there was a debate whether Siam was or was not yetsiwilai, often referring to England, China, Haiti, Tibet, and many other countries, but it was not clear what made themsiwilaior not siwilai. He went on debunking the general understanding that wealth, power, territory, monogamy, gender equity, cleanliness, dress, etiquette, or mechanization constituted the notion ofsiwilai. The meaning was slippery, no matter how anybody tried to claim or use it politically (Bhidayalongkorn 1970).

(Dis)placing Geopolitics: Writing on the Maps of Global Politics

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gearóid Ó Tuathail
Keyword(s):  
Global Politics ◽  
Critical Geopolitics ◽  
Conceptual Maps ◽  
Geographical Discourse ◽  
Governmental Institutions

The meaning of geopolitics is a curiously underexamined issue in ‘critical geopolitics’. In this paper I seek to outline and pursue a poststructuralist displacement of the concept, a displacement marked by hyphenization: geo-politics. Using Derrida's critique of Saussure, in the first part of the paper I interweave the problem of meaning with the discourse of geography so as to write on the concepts of ‘the map’ and ‘geography’. In the second part of the paper I explore the implications of this writing on or displacing for the analysis of geographical discourse and/in global politics. I concentrate on three issues: (1) problemattzing the traditional conceptual maps of ‘geopolitics’, (2) speculating on the historical problematic of geography and governmentality, and (3) suggesting a typology for the study of geo-politics which pays particular attention to how places are sighted/sited/cited by governmental institutions (geo-political sites).

Geografias Moderna e Pós-Modernas

GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Helio de Araujo Evangelista
Keyword(s):  
Critical Geography ◽  
Geographical Discourse

Resumo Instituído e sucessivamente recriado no âmbito da modernidade, o discurso geográfico vê-se já de um tempo desafiado pelas críticas e referências do pós-moderno. Sobretudo em face de as mudanças recentes envolvendo a geografia humanista e a geografia crítica terem passado ao largo do avanço cultural da pós-modernidade. Palavras-chave: modernidade, pós-modernidade, novas teorias. Abstract The geographical discourse, founded and successively recreated in the context of modernity, it's being challenged by critics and references of postmodernity. It occurs especially face to the recent changes in humanistic and critical geography that don't go along with the cultural advances on postmodernity. Keywords: modernity, postmodernity, new theories.

scholarly journals De volta às discussões sobre o significado de paisagem e outras avenças

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Douglas Santos
Keyword(s):  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Geographical Discourse

  Resumo Acompanhando as proposições metafísicas que sobrecarregam o discurso geográfico e, certamente, nossas noções de paisagem, este artigo dialogando com um conjunto de citações disponibilizado pelo professor e amigo Nicolás Ortega Cantero, em uma das aulas ministrada na Universidade Autônoma de Madri, é uma revisita ao tema – lembrando que os artigos que já publiquei sobre o assunto se encontram identificados na bibliografia.  Palavras-chave: Geografia, teoria e método, paisagem, território, região.    Abstract Following the metaphysical propositions that overload the geographical discourse and, certainly, our conceptions of landscape, this paper is a revisit to the theme and dialogues with a set of quotes, provided by the friend and professor Nicolás Ortega Cantero, in one of his classes given at the Autonomous University of Madrid – remember, the articles I have already published about the subject are identified in the bibliography.  Keywords: Geography; theory and method; landscape; territory; region   Resumen En el marco de las propuestas metafísicas que sobrecargan el discurso geográfico y, por supuesto, nuestras nociones de paisaje, este artículo, dialogando con un conjunto de citas ofrecido por el profesor y amigo Nicolás Ortega Cantero, en una de sus clases en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, es una revisita al tema - recordando que los artículos que ya he publicado sobre el tema se encuentran identificados en la bibliografía. Palabras clave: Geografía, teoría y método, paisaje, territorio, región.

scholarly journals Truth and Wonder in Richard Head’s Geographical Fictions

Sederi ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 117-137
Author(s):  
Sonia Villegas López
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Floating Island ◽  
The Status ◽  
Geographical Discourse

In line with the method prescribed by members of the Royal Society for natural history and travel writing, Richard Head explored the limits of verisimilitude associated with geographical discourse in his three fictions The Floating Island (1673), The Western Wonder (1674) and O-Brazile (1675). In them he argues in favor of the existence of the mysterious Brazile island and uses the factual discourse of the travel diarist to present a semi-mythical place whose very notion stretches the limits of believability. In line with recent critical interpretations of late seventeenth-century fiction as deceptive, and setting the reading of Head’s narrations in connection with other types of travel writing, I argue that Head’s fictions are a means of testing the readers’ gullibility at a time when the status of prose, both fictional and non-fictional, is subject to debate.

Geografias Moderna e Pós-Modernas

GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Helio de Araujo Evangelista
Keyword(s):  
Critical Geography ◽  
Geographical Discourse

Resumo Instituído e sucessivamente recriado no âmbito da modernidade, o discurso geográfico vê-se já de um tempo desafiado pelas críticas e referências do pós-moderno. Sobretudo em face de as mudanças recentes envolvendo a geografia humanista e a geografia crítica terem passado ao largo do avanço cultural da pós-modernidade. Palavras-chave: modernidade, pós-modernidade, novas teorias. Abstract The geographical discourse, founded and successively recreated in the context of modernity, it's being challenged by critics and references of postmodernity. It occurs especially face to the recent changes in humanistic and critical geography that don't go along with the cultural advances on postmodernity. Keywords: modernity, postmodernity, new theories.

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