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Through his work on the social and cultural politics of landscape and representation Denis Cosgrove has established an approach to cultural geography that is firmly rooted within the tradition of the humanities. Studying the historical and symbolic meanings of landscape in a Western European tradition that stretches from early Renaissance Italy to the modern world, his main books include 'Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape' (1984), 'The Iconography of Landscape' (1988) and 'The Palladian Landscape' (1993).

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More recently, he has explored the workings of mapping and cartography in 'Mappings' (1999) and 'Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination' (2001). The following interview conversation, conducted during the Hettner Lecture in Heidelberg on 30th June 2005, aims at offering insights into the interrelations of Denis Cosgrove's biography and his scholarly work. Drawing upon Livingstone's approach of considering the interplay between biography, place and scientific practice in order to achieve a deeper understanding of his oeuvre (Livingstone 2002), we hope that our interview contributes to ongoing discussions on Cosgrove's approach to cultural geography and stimulates an interest in rethinking different ways of practising cultural geography.

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Notes Introduction / Migratory Workers and the CaliforniaLandscape, 1913-1942 1. Carey MeWilliams, California: The Great Exception (Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1976 ed.), xiii. Kenneth Olwig, 'Sexual Cosmology: Nation and Landscape at the Conceptual Interstices of Nature and Culture; or What Does Landscape Really Mean?'

In Barbara Bender (ed.), Landscape: Politics and Perspectives (Oxford: Berg, 1993), 307-43, quotations from 307-8, 339-40; W.J. Mitchell, 'Imperial Landscape,' in W.J. Mitchell (ed.), Landscape and Power (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 5-34, quotation from 5; Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove, 'Iconography and Landscape,' in Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels (eds.), The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 1-11. Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (London: Verso, 1989); Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith). Denis Cosgrove, Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (London: Groom Helm, 1984).

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Lefebvre, Production of Space, 44. Mitchell, 'Introduction,' in W. Mitchell, Power and Landscape (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 1—4; Elizabeth Helsinger, 'Turner and the Representation of England,' in ibid., 103—25. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), 32-34; Neil Smith, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990, 2nd ed.), chapter 2. Carl Sauer, 'TheMorphology of Landscape,' in John Leighly (ed.), Land and 203 204 / Notes to Chapter 1 Life: A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963, essay originally published 1925); Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I (New York: International Publishers, 1987 ed.), 40. Marx, Capital, Volume I, 173-74.

The language is dated, but the argument is valid; indeed, I would want to rewrite this quotation in the plural to better stress the social character of labor. Daniels and Cosgrove, 'Iconography and Landscape.' MeWilliams, California: The Great Exception, xiii; John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Viking, 1952); The Grapes ofWrath (New York: Viking, 1939); David Wyatt, The Fall into Eden:Landscape and Imagination in California(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); Joan Didion, SlouchingTowards Bethlehem(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1961).