Geography with John Berger
Questions of Space and Practice
Geography with John Berger
Questions of Space and Practice
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Description
This book argues for 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 assembled authors highlight Berger's insights and contributions for geographical and spatial approaches through critical engagement with his work and praxis as a writer, critic, collaborator, playwright, filmmaker and artist.
Across the collected chapters, the contributors address varying aspects of Berger's work, including a photo essay that mobilises Berger's work to articulate personal encounters with place and a discussion of his notion of “confabulation” and what it offers for writing cultural geographies. In addition, the contributors consider broader themes, such as Berger's interest in seeing, questions of representation, migration, ethics and the limits of (political) action in place.
This book serves, therefore, to open Berger's ideas, approaches and propositions for further interest and scrutiny of geographers and spatial practitioners in cognate fields. As a starting point for further discussion, the collection underlines Berger's enduring relevance and resonance for contemporary academic, conceptual and worldly developments. In so doing, its contributors – hailing from both within and beyond the 'discipline' of geography – emphasise and celebrate the value of cross-disciplinary dialogues, collaborations, experimentations and creative conversations when advancing novel arguments and interventions for the understanding of space, place, and landscape.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface: John Berger: A Geo-biography
Tom Overton
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Geography with John Berger
Ben Garlick (Independent Scholar, UK) and Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK)
1. The Geography of the Image: 'Between Here and There'
Agata Lulkowska (University of Staffordshire, UK) with a response by Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK)
2. Confabulations: A Geography without Clauses
Joe Gerlach and Thomas Jellis (University of Bristol, UK)
3. Out of Context: Place, Transcultural Communication, Decolonialism, and John Berger
Agata Lulkowska (University of Staffordshire, UK)
4. “A Question of Geography”: John Berger and the Limits of Place
Ben Garlick (Independent Scholar, UK)
5. A Seventh Man as a Critical Spatial Praxis
Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK)
6. On Intellectual Generosity: John Berger's Ethics
Leila Dawney (University of Exeter, UK)
Index
Product details

Published | 02 Apr 2026 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 176 |
ISBN | 9781978770720 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 17 bw photos |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |