The Emergence of Psychoecology: The New Nature Writings of Roger Deakin, Mark Cocker, Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey

Hunt, Stephen E.

doi:10.1080/14688417.2009.10589045

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“…However, one appreciation of the new nature writing describes key exponents (including Mabey, Deakin and Macfarlane) as a ‘green flânerie’, which:speaks to the emergence of a psychoecology, with richly attuned meanderings that have strategic affinities with the work of psychogeographers, such as Iain Sinclair and Will Self who in recent years have negotiated more urban terrain. (Hunt, 2009: 71)…”

Section: Mind the Gap: Psychogeography Beyond The Suburbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychogeography: Walking through strategy, nature and narrative

Sidaway

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Proposed as an urban pedestrian practice in French texts of the 1950s, the current vogue for English-language references to psychogeography dates from the 1990s. Sampling this corpus, much of it outside academic geography, this article examines some of psychogeography’s trajectories, connections and affinities, notably with nature writing. In minding gaps, the article considers gendered, decolonial and Muslim registers that extend the range of sites and protagonists, heralding other priorities and opportunities both within and beyond the North Atlantic. Finally, reflecting on what lessons lie in psychogeography and its margins for human geography, the article reconsiders questions of narrative and scale.

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Section: Mind the Gap: Psychogeography Beyond The Suburbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…speaks to the emergence of a psychoecology, with richly attuned meanderings that have strategic affinities with the work of psychogeographers, such as Iain Sinclair and Will Self who in recent years have negotiated more urban terrain. (Hunt, 2009: 71)…”

Section: Mind the Gap: Psychogeography Beyond The Suburbsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychogeography: Walking through strategy, nature and narrative

Sidaway

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…This has been called 'psychoecology' by Stephen Hunt. 68 Works built around country walks typically subvert the vision of the bucolic escape, using Sinclair's tactic of countermemory, which in Foucault's words 'makes visible all of those discontinuities that cross us.' 69 In The Old Weird Albion, a walk into the byways of the South Downs, Justin Hopper searches for ancestral 'reminders in the landscapephysical artifacts, like stone circles and burial mounds, but also cultural ideas that manifest themselves as place names and collective memories: folk tales, songs, legends.'…”

Section: Walking Counter-memory and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%