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Beyond the Post-Colonial Gaze: Recognising Pachamama
Series: - Transcultural Aesthetics, Volume: 7
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Landscapes are the skin of the Earth: they reflect the environmental and cultural well-being of human communities, especially in an age of climate crisis. Focusing on Peru’s Huancavelica region, this book affirms the philosophical value of Andean cosmovision, challenging dominant aesthetic paradigms shaped by tourism and media. The book advances an original onto-phenomenological theory of landscape, bridging prevailing spatial models with insights from diverse disciplines in a transdisciplinary and innovative framework.
Paolo Furia, Ph.D. (2017), University of Torino, is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Torino. He has published monographs in Italian, including Spaesamento. Esperienza estetico-geografica (2023), many peer-reviewed articles, and contributions in edited volumes on the relationship between aesthetics and geography. In 2023 he was a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima (PUCP), at the Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica (UNH) and at the Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino in Lircay (UDEA). In 2024 he was a visiting professor at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Guangzhou, China).
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Aestheticised Landscape
1 Substance without Subjects
2 Subject without Substances
3 The Modern Splitting of Space: Geography and Aesthetics
4 Towards the Modern Geographical Constellation
5 Putting Landscape into Perspective
6 The Agreeable Contemplation of Nature
7 The Geographical Constellation in Practice
8 Tourism and Staged Authenticity
2 Towards the Andes
1 Landscape between the Substance and the Spirit
2 The Hermeneutic Circle of Geographical Understanding
3 Landscapes and Landscape Conceptions
4 Geographical and Anthropological Understanding
5 Huancavelica: the Colonial Landscape
6 Lircay: la Pequeña Suiza
7 Up to the Pastures
8 El Gran Apu
Interlude
1 The Fight of the Mountains
2 Bella and Tambraico
3 Substantive Landscapes
1 Landscape, Ayllu and Pacha
2 Amerindian and Andean Ontology
3 Andean Philosophy: a Philosophy of Spatiality
4 Andean Landscape and the Arts
5 The Ornament of the Pacha
6 Geographical Experience between Implacement and Displacement
7 Humboldtian Landscapes
8 Substantive Landscape and the Reform of the Geographical Constellation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Aestheticised Landscape
1 Substance without Subjects
2 Subject without Substances
3 The Modern Splitting of Space: Geography and Aesthetics
4 Towards the Modern Geographical Constellation
5 Putting Landscape into Perspective
6 The Agreeable Contemplation of Nature
7 The Geographical Constellation in Practice
8 Tourism and Staged Authenticity
2 Towards the Andes
1 Landscape between the Substance and the Spirit
2 The Hermeneutic Circle of Geographical Understanding
3 Landscapes and Landscape Conceptions
4 Geographical and Anthropological Understanding
5 Huancavelica: the Colonial Landscape
6 Lircay: la Pequeña Suiza
7 Up to the Pastures
8 El Gran Apu
Interlude
1 The Fight of the Mountains
2 Bella and Tambraico
3 Substantive Landscapes
1 Landscape, Ayllu and Pacha
2 Amerindian and Andean Ontology
3 Andean Philosophy: a Philosophy of Spatiality
4 Andean Landscape and the Arts
5 The Ornament of the Pacha
6 Geographical Experience between Implacement and Displacement
7 Humboldtian Landscapes
8 Substantive Landscape and the Reform of the Geographical Constellation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
This book is of interest to researchers in Aesthetics, Transcultural Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, Contemporary Philosophy, Mountain Studies as well as to human geographers, cultural anthropologists, academic libraries, and master students in both Europe and Latin American universities.