Publisher's Synopsis
This book captures the significance of John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience.Geography with John Berger explores John Berger's work, thought, and life within cultural geography, and spatial theory and practice. Ben Garlick, Dubravka Sekulic, and the contributors highlight Berger's insights and contributions to geographical and spatial knowledge through critical engagement with his works and literary practices as an author, critic, collaborator, playwright, filmmaker and artist.Contributors present a photo essay that is a reflection on, and engagement with, images that articulate personal encounters with two places, documented by the photographer for two different reasons (one personal, one public). They analyse Berger's invoking of confabulations and the sense of how confabulations might contest the ways in which they are arranged. They explore the connectedness of seeing, place, and physical (as well as digital) forms of representation in conversation with John Berger. They discuss themes of time, limits of place and ethics in Berger's work.This book serves to open Berger to further interest and scrutiny, building on existing engagement with the author within geography and cognate fields to prompt further discussions of the enduring relevance and resonance of his work for contemporary academic, conceptual and worldly developments. In so doing, the chapters - provided by authors both within and beyond the 'discipline' of geography - model a cross-disciplinary dialogue, emphasising the value of experimentation and creative conversation, as a route to the production of novel arguments and interventions into the understanding of space, place and landscape.
