Thinking about Place and Culture: An American Geographer in Catalunya
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YEAR:
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2006
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Journal Article
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Catalunya (Catalonia), Garrotxa (comarca), Olot (city)
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Geography
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-448-561
(Last edited on
2009/04/18 11:43:20 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
In this essay on the geography of the heart, I use my experience in Catalunya to elaborate how geographers discover places and how a foreign encounter can transform one's thinking. Intellectual inspiration in this trajectory has come from Goethe (self-aware traveler with an open mind), Herder (originator of the notion of cultural-linguistic diversity), A. Humboldt (scientist curious about foreign lands),Royce (philosopher of the periphery), and Sauer (maestro of a cultural-historical approach to geography). Learning about place at three scales has been a process of discovery illuminated by revisitation, reflection, and comparison. The small city of Olot has offered perspectives on pedestrian-oriented urban living; the comarca of La Garrotxa has stimulated thinking about the logic of an environmentally coherent
micro-region; and Catalunya has provided an example of how solidarity, a sense of the past, but also the conjuncture of the Zeitgeist, have led to an extraordinary cultural resurgence.
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