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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 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.
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 | Apr 02 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 |