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Walking Inside Out

Contemporary British Psychogeography
Place, Memory, Affect

von: Tina Richardson
48,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield International
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	07.07.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781783480876
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	272

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Titelbeschreibung

Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the individual. 
 

 
Through a variety of case studies, it offers a British perspective of international spaces, from the British metropolis to the post-communist European city. By situating the current strand of psychogeography within its historical, political and creative context along with careful consideration of the challenges it faces Walking Inside Out offers a vision for the future of the discipline.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book brings together contemporary theorists and practitioners to critically explore the state of psychogeography today.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication / Introduction: A Wander Through the Scene of British Urban Walking / Part I: The Walker and the Urban Landscape / 1. Longshore Drift: Approaching Liverpool from Another Place by Roy Bayfield / 2. Walking the Dog by Ian Marchant / 3. Incongruous Steps Towards a Legal Psychogeography by Luke Bennett / Part II: Memory, Historicity, Time / 4. Walking Through Memory: Critical Nostalgia and the City by Alastair Bonnett / 5. Selective Amnesia and Spectral Recollection in the Bloodlands by Phil Wood / 6. The Art of Wandering: Arthur Machen’s London Science by Merlin Coverley / 7. Wooden Stones by Gareth E. Rees / Part III: Power and Place / 8. Psychogeography Adrift: Negotiating Critical Inheritance in a Changed Context by Christopher Collier / 9. Confessions of an Anarcho-Flâneuse or Psychogeography the Mancunian Way by Morag Rose / Part IV Practising Psychogeography/Psychogeographical Practices/ 10. Psychogeography and Mythogeography: Currents in Radical Walking by Phil Smith / 11. Developing Schizocartography: Formulating a Theoretical Methodology for a Walking Practice by Tina Richardson / 12. Route Planning a Sensory Walk: Sniffing Out the Issues by Victoria Henshaw / Part V Outsider Psychogeography/ 13. Re-walking the City: People with Dementia Remember by Andrea Capstick / 14. Psychogeography, Anti-Psychologies and the Question of Social Change by Alexander John Bridger / Conclusion: The New Psychogeography / Notes on Contributors / Index

Autorenportrait

Tina Richardson is an independent scholar and guest lecturer in the field of psychogeography and urban semiology. She completed her PhD research at the University of Leeds, developing her own psychogeographical methodology called schizocartography. She ran Leeds Psychogeography Group from 2009 to 2013 and worked on a collaboration exploring the semiotics of the British seaside, "Reading the Arcades/Reading the Promenades." Tina has had a number of articles published, including in Spaces and Flows and disClosure. She has presented a number of conference papers, for example at ‘Situationist Aesthetics: The SI, Now’ (University of Sussex) and was the invited speaker at the Land2 Symposium "Close to Home: Artists Reconsider the Local" (Leeds). Tina acted as co-editor for Parallax and associate editor for Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and Extraurban Studies. She featured on Radio 4 as a psychogeographer and in the local press in regards to a recent psychogeographical talk she presented on the musician Nick Drake. Tina runs a blog dedicated to Psychogeography and Cultural Theory called Particulations: http://particulations.blogspot.co.uk/ which she has been writing since 2009, in addition to a website oriented around her own form of psychogeography: www.schizocartography.org and a research-based twitter account @concretepost.

Alternativtitel

The edited volumes which are most similar to the proposed one are:
 

 
Beaumont et al, ed. Restless Cities, Verso 2010, £12.99
 

 
Keiller, A View From the Train, Verso 2013, £14.99
 

 
 However, Restless Cities concentrates on just city life and while including the work of both academics and writers, deals specifically with London. A View From the Train is an audit trail of Keiller’s own work and while it is a hugely valuable book for those interested in the city, architecture and culture - especially in regards to film - it does not have the depth and breadth the proposed volume does in dealing specifically with contemporary psychogeography.
 

 
Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age, Routledge 1992, £38.99
 
Closest in terms of academic rigour but this is very much situationist text and does not offer the mix of academic/practitioner or the contemporary analysis of this text.

Sonderbeitrag

Offers a combination of theoretical texts, urban walking accounts and alternative approaches to urban walking.
 

 
Responds to the recent surge in political activism taking place in our cities through movements such as Occupy.
 

 
Deemphasises the prevalence of London-centric texts which have traditionally predominated the field.