A Transdisciplinary, Engaged, Phenomenological Investigation of Dwelling and Landscape Language

Andrew Turk (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

641 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0964-7 (ISBN)

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This book includes revised dissertation chapters from the author's (second) PhD, which was awarded in 2020 by Murdoch University, Australia. It also includes three chapters summarising recent developments. This was an innovative, transdisciplinary, research project, using phenomenology as the over-arching meta-paradigm. The investigation involved collaborations and literature reviews across numerous disciplines, including philosophy, geography, ethnoecology, sociology and cultural studies. The book discusses three landscape language (ethnophysiography) case studies with Indigenous peoples in Australia and the USA. It features a detailed discussion of transdisciplinarity and provides a comprehensive example of how this approach can be applied to complex dwelling relationships, which people, from different cultures, have with specific topographic environments, turning terrain into landscape. It involves using phenomenology as a transdisciplinary meta-paradigm and describes phenomenological methods for integrating physical and social sciences, including an analysis of the worldviews of Indigenous peoples (for example, Manyjilyjarra Jukurrpa as Heideggerian topology).

Andrew Turk has qualifications in Surveying, Applied Science (Cartography), Psychology and Philosophy. He completed his first PhD in 1992 (concerning HCI for GIS) and his second in 2020. He was a mapping surveyor from 1969 to 1983, conducting research regarding satellite imagery, digital topographic mapping and geographic information systems. In 1983, Andrew started teaching at the University of Melbourne, Australia. From 1993, Andrew worked at Murdoch University, Australia, teaching human factors for information systems and conducting interdisciplinary research. Andrew also worked with Aboriginal communities regarding native title, community development, cultural information and media. From 2000, he researched cultural/linguistic aspects of landscapes, conducting Australian and USA case studies, and retired in 2007. In 2020 he achieved his second PhD, including a case study with Manyjilyjarra people, aided by linguist Clair Hill and Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa. He continues to research and publish as a Murdoch University Adjunct Associate Professor.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-0364-0964-3 / 1036409643
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0964-7 / 9781036409647
Zustand	Neuware