Stephen Daniels

Bio: Stephen Daniels is an academic researcher from University of Nottingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human geography & Historical geography. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 63 publications receiving 1840 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen Daniels include Cornell University.

The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of past Environments

Abstract: Preface Introduction: iconography and landscape Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove 1. The geography of Mother Nature Peter Fuller 2. The evocative symbolism of trees Douglas Davies 3. The political iconography of woodland in later Georgian England Stephen Daniels 4. Places and dwellings: Wordsworth, Clare and the anti-picturesque John Lacas 5. Art and agrarian change, 1710-1815 Hugh Prince 6. 'Fields of radiance': the scientific and industrial scenes of Joseph Wright David Fraser 7. The privation of history: Landseer, Victoria and the Highland myth Trevor P. Pringle 8. The iconography of nationhood in Canadian art Brian S. Osborne 9. Rhetoric of the western interior: modes of environmental description in American promotional literature of the nineteenth century G. Malcolm Lewis 10. Symbolism, 'ritualism' and the location of crowds in early nineteenth-century English towns Mark Harrison 11. Symbol of the Second Empire: cultural politics and the Paris Opera House Penelope Woolf 12. The sphinx in the north: egyptian influences on landscape, architecture and interior design in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland Eric Grant 13. The geometry of landscape: practical and speculative arts in sixteenth-century Venetian land territories Denis Cosgrove 14. Maps, knowledge, and power J. B. Harley Index.

Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States

Abstract: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction11The Prince of Wales and the Shadow of St. Paul's112Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Power433Humphry Repton and the Improvement of the Estate804J. M. W. Turner and the Circulation of the State1125Thomas Cole and the Course of Empire1466Frances Palmer and the Incorporation of the Continent1747John Constable and the making of Constable Country200Conclusion243Index247

Lifepaths: geography and biography

Abstract: Despite the differences identified in the famous clerihew on the subject, the arts of geography and biography are historically connected. Narratives of the lifepath in western culture have been plotted in an explicitly geographical way, through the metaphor and technique of mapping. This is evident in a variety of forms of life writing: spiritual autobiographies, travel writings, novels, educational texts, sociological studies and memoirs of professional geographers. The papers which follow this introductory essay focus on relations between script and space in the making of life histories, both individual and collective.

Narratives of climate change: introduction

Abstract: This paper introduces a special feature on narratives of climate change, containing papers by Richard Hamblyn, Sverker Sorlin, Michael Bravo and Diana Liverman. The feature reflects the rising cultural profile of climate change in the public sphere, as represented, for example, by Al Gore's documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth , and art exhibitions devoted to the subject.

Mapping the modern city : Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham novels

Abstract: As a literary form the novel is inherently geographical. Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham novels deploy the rhetoric of mapping and map reading to articulate a series of perspectives on urban life. Against a background of post-war consumer culture and civic redevelopment, Sillitoe's novels map the modernity of urban life. A key trope in his work is the modernist axis of aerial and labyrinthine worlds. Saturday night and Sunday morning (1958/1976) charts a year in the life of an anarchistic 'angry young man', Arthur Seaton, around the labyrinthine world of working-class Nottingham. The death of William Posters (1965) charts the emergence of a socialist 'new man', moving from Nottingham to Algerian desert and the guerilla war against the French administration. Key to the door (1961b) and The open door (1989) chart the life of the modernist 'airman' Brian Seaton, whose literary and cartographic outlook parallel Sillitoe's own. In these novels Sillitoe portrays a belligerent image of Nottingham, contrary to the smoothly progressive image of the city in professional and academic publications of the time. Studies of geographic thought might broaden their scope to take more account of fictional writings.

The Annihilation of Space by Law: The Roots and Implications of Anti‐Homeless Laws in the United States

Abstract: There is a link between changes in the contemporary political economy and the criminalization of homelessness. Anti-homeless legislation can be understood as an attempt to annihilate the spaces in which homeless people must live, and perform everyday functions. This annihilation is a response to the economic uncertainty produced by the current political economy. The process of criminalizing homelessness 1) destroys the very right of homeless people to be; and 2) reinforces particularly brutal notions of citizenship within the public sphere. Such laws are made possible when urban government and surrounding communities and elites seek to promote the urban landscape at the expense of urban public space. This usurpation of public space will have profound impact not only on homeless people but also on how the housed interact with each other.

Climate change and the

Abstract: This review article surveys the complex terrain of the imagination as a way of understanding and exploring the manifestations of anthropogenic climate change in culture and society. Imagination here is understood as a way of seeing, sensing, thinking, and dreaming that creates the conditions for material interventions in, and political sensibilities of the world. It draws upon literary, filmic, and creative arts practices to argue that imaginative practices from the arts and humanities play a critical role in thinking through our representations of environmental change and offer strategies for developing diverse forms of environmental understanding from scenario building to metaphorical, ethical, and material investigations. The interplay between scientific practices and imaginative forms is also addressed. Thematically, this review addresses the modalities of climate futures, adaptive strategies, and practices of climate science in its study of key imaginative framings of climate change.  2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs Clim Change 2011 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.117

An Introduction to Critical Cartography

Abstract: This paper provides a brief introduction to critical cartography. We define critical cartography as a one-two punch of new mapping practices and theoretical critique. Critical cartography challenges academic cartography by linking geographic knowledge with power, and thus is political. Although contemporary critical cartography rose to prominence in the 1990s, we argue that it can only be understood in the historical context of the development of the cartographic discipline more generally. We sketch some of the history of this development, and show that critiques have continually accompanied the discipline. In the post-war period cartography underwent a significant solidification as a science, while at the same time other mapping practices (particularly artistic experimentation with spatial representation) were occurring. Coupled with the resurgence of theoretical critiques during the 1990s, these developments serve to question the relevance of the discipline of cartography at a time when mapping is increasingly prevalent and vital.