1 August 2008
CLASSIC LNL: For the Love of Place - Chorophiliac Passions and Topoleptic Visions
Originally broadcast on 15/8/2001.
A passion for particular places is powerful enough for nations to battle over.
Place is central to the Australian identity, but is it a constructed sense of place? This program explores the different ways of relating to, engaging with and depicting space, place and landscape, roaming from Ancient Greece to Aboriginal Australia, Macedonia to the Blue Mountains.
Guests
Dr Martin Thomas
Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Dr Ross Gibson
Creative director of Cinemedia - the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Dr Victor Walter
Professor Emeritus of Topistics and Sociology at Boston University.
Publications
Title: South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia
Author: Ross Gibson
Publisher: University of Indiana Press
Title: A Multicultural Landscape: National Parks and the Macedonian Experience
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher: Pluto Press
Title: The Artificial Horizon: Reading a Colonised Landscape
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Title: Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment
Author: E.V.Walter
Publisher: University of California Press
Story Researcher and Producer
Gretchen Miller
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