Sensuous Geographies. Body, Sense and Place

The contemporary challenge of postmodernity draws our attention to the
nature of reality and the ways in which experience is constructed.
Sensuous Geographies
explores our immediate sensuous experience of the world. Touch, smell,
hearing and sight - the four senses chiefly relevant to geographical
experience - both receive and structure information. The process is
mediated by historical, cultural and technological factors.
Issues
of definition are illustrated through a variety of sensuous geographies.
Focusing on postmodern concerns with representation, the book brings
insights from individual perceptions and cultural observations to an
analysis of the senses, challenging us to reconsider the role of the
sensuous as not merely the physical basis of understanding but as an
integral part of the cultural definition of geographical knowledge
TOCPart 1 Sense and Geography; Chapter 1 Sensuous Geography; Chapter 2
Perception Theory and the Senses; Chapter 3 The Character of Sense; Part
2 Sense, Space, Place; Chapter 4 Haptic Geographies; Chapter 5
Olfactory Geographies; Chapter 6 Auditory Geographies; Chapter 7 Visual
Geographies; Part 3 Sense and Reality; Chapter 8 Sensuous Geography and
Transformation; Chapter 9 Images, Themes and Postmodern Geographies;
Chapter 10 Sense and Hyper-Reality;