Phil Hubbard, "Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England" (Manchester UP, 2022)
New Books in Geography
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The Borderscape
The border is not necessarily where we can best understand processes of bordering. Bordering is something that happens everywhere. I was interested in reading that border scape thinking about it's aesthetically, socially and culturally what images does it give us. And there are three literatures there that should really kind of inspirational to me. One is a very kind of traditional geographic literature on landscapes which goes back against a car sour in the US or Hoskins in the UK. The second is a kind of a literature on the new nature writing and there's a lot of this, particularly in the UK at the moment. These are some of the people who your listeners may have come across mainly UK writers who try
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