Conversations with landscape

Karl Benediktsson, December 6, 2010

This is the title of a book just published by Ashgate in the UK and which is edited by my very own self, in collaboration with Katrín Anna Lund. Its approach to landscape studies departs from the assumption that the relations between the human and the landscape are more complementary than often assumed – the landscape (and in a wider sense, the non-human environment) speaks to those who dwell in it. This is a different approach from that which is most common, namely that landscape/nature is an objective reality outside of the person who is observing, classifying and measuring it. We have assembled a formidable group of Icelandic and international scholars as authors of chapters in the book, which is – in my not-s0-humble opinion – bloody good...  😉 Those interested can check for themselves here.