Deviant Landscapes: A Journey to Exotic and Imaginary Places and Spaces

Deviant landscapes can be physical, or digital or outright fictitious. Whatever their nature or context, they do not conform to normality. Deviant landscapes can be encountered on the face of the earth, on computer screens, in people’s minds.

This anthology presents varying perspectives on deviant landscapes, widening the theoretical framework of spatial-and-landscape research by delving into the hitherto almost uncharted realm of deviant landscapes in a way that is missing in the academic literature.

It exposes a variety of perspectives on deviant landscapes, from disparate scientific domains (i.e. geography, literary studies, sociology, game studies, cultural studies) and delivers useful insights into the diverse theoretical approaches that can be adopted to examine such landscapes (neopragmatist, social constructivist, scientometric, art theoretical etc.).

The Editors

Dr. Dr. Fivos Papadimitriou is at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and at the University of West Attica. He is the author of the monographs ＂Spatial Complexity＂, ＂Spatial Entropy and Landscape Analysis＂, ＂Modelling Landscape Dynamics＂ and ＂Geo-Topology＂ (all published by Springer).

Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne is Professor of Urban and Regional Development at the Department of Geography and the Institute of Political Science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He is particularly concerned with landscape theory, landscape governance, regional geography, and the effects of policies on landscapes and urban development processes. His theoretical foundations are neopragmatism and social constructivism, while his spatial research focuses on Central Europe, Italy, and the United States of America.