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Infrasecular geographies: Making, unmaking and remaking sacred space by Dora, Veronica della

“…Debates on the postsecular have been paralleled by a growing body of work on sacred space. Most of this work has generally focused on its ‘making’ and on the…”
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Listening to the archive: Historical geographies of sound by della Dora, Veronica

“…Sound is a fundamental dimension of human experience. However, its ephemeral nature poses specific challenges to historical geographers and other scholars…”
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Infrasecular geographies by Dora Veronica della

“…Debates on the postsecular have been paralleled by a growing body of work on sacred space. Most of this work has generally focused on its ‘making’ and on the…”
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The rhetoric of nostalgia: postcolonial Alexandria between uncanny memories and global geographies by Della Dora, Veronica

“…Memory, nostalgia and place are subjects of increasing scholarly interest. While invoked by cultural geographers as a 'productive force' moulding urban…”
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Crossing Surfaces in Search of the Holy: Landscape and Liminality in Contemporary Christian Pilgrimage by Maddrell, Avril, della Dora, Veronica

“…This paper examines the role of surfaces in pilgrimage practices and experiences in two denominational and cultural contexts and landscape settings for…”
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Mapping Global War: Los Angeles, the Pacific, and Charles Owens's Pictorial Cartography by Cosgrove, Denis E., della Dora, Veronica

“…Writing on popular geographies has emphasized the shaping role of media. Newspapers and magazines, school texts, and atlases, had particular impacts on the…”
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Travelling landscape-objects by della Dora, Veronica

“…Over the past few years the notion of `landscape as a text' has been increasingly problematized. A number of experiments have been attempted to approach…”
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We have never been canonical by Keighren, Innes M, Abrahamsson, Christian, Dora, Veronica della

“…In responding to the commentaries on Keighren et al. (2012), we discuss in this paper the nature of memory and forgetfulness in geography and examine what the…”
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Engaging Sacred Space: Experiments in the Field by della Dora, Veronica

“…This article reflects on the experience of theorizing sacred space through field practice as part of a fieldtrip to Barcelona. In particular, it focuses on the…”
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“Dreams so Big Only the Sea Can Hold Them”: Man-Made Islands as Anxious Spaces, Cultural Icons, and Travelling Visions by Jackson, Mark, della Dora, Veronica

“…This paper explores a new phenomenon which is assuming global proportions: the planning and construction of artificial islands. Varying in size, shape, and…”
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Mountains and memory: embodied visions of ancient peaks in the nineteenth-century Aegean by Della Dora, Veronica

“…Over the past few years, the relationship between landscape and the body as two physical entities mutually informed through performance has been increasingly…”
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Anti-Landscapes: Caves and Apophasis in the Christian East by della Dora, Veronica

“…Caves occupy a special place in the Christian East. According to the Byzantine traditions, caves are the spaces where biblical paradoxical wonders took place,…”
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Alexander the Great's Mountain by Dora, Veronica Della

“…The metaphorical power of natural landscapes and geographical objects has attracted an increasing amount of critical interest. The myth of Dinocrates planning…”
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High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science by Denis Cosgrove, Veronica Della Dora

“…High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are exciting and special environments. 13 leading international geographers explore different aspects of these…”
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The Geographical Unconscious by Dora, Veronica Della

“…[...]we encounter Picasso and Dali while contemplating the focal multiplicity of a Byzantine icon; we stumble in archaic layers of mythical ancient and…”
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On canonical geographies by Keighren, Innes M., Abrahamsson, Christian, della Dora, Veronica

“…Histories of geography are, by their very nature, selective enterprises. The apparent tendency of geographers to disparage particular periods of the…”
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Making Mobile Knowledges: The Educational Cruises of the Revue Générale des Sciences Pures et Appliquées, 1897-1914 by della Dora, Veronica

“…Over the past few years there has been an increasing acknowledgment that all knowledge is "sited knowledge." While place, mobility, and travel have become…”
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Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet by della Dora, Veronica

“…Geographies of Mars recounts the cultural history of how the red planet was inscribed and shaped by human vision and imagination between the late nineteenth…”
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Editorial: Spaces of Renewal by Maddrell, Avril, della Dora, Veronica

“…Change can be sudden or gradual; it can happen in a specific moment in one's life, or take an entire life time consider, for example, the physical and…”
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Mapping Pathways to Heaven: A Topographical Engraving of Meteora (1782) by della Dora, Veronica

“…The subject of this article is the first extant topographical engraving of Meteora, the second largest monastic complex in Greece and one of the most…”
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