Couper, Pauline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0083-223X (2023) Interpretive field geomorphology as cognitive, social, embodied and affective epistemic practice. The Canadian Geographer, 67 (3). pp. 430-441.

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Abstract

This article examines the epistemic practices of interpretive field geomorphology—that is, the in-the-moment act of “seeing the landscape” geomorphologically. Drawing on the philosophical works of Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty, it aims to bring to light the complex, multi-dimensional, knowledge-producing process of field observation and interpretation. Methodologically the study is based on geomorphologists' accounts of their fieldwork, gathered through questionnaire and interviews. By paying attention to what geomorphologists say they are doing in the field, interpretive field geomorphology is articulated as a combined cognitive, social, embodied, and affective experience through which understanding is arrived at. The paper thus sheds light on one part of what Brierley et al. call “the dark art” of geomorphological interpretation, and draws out implications in terms of researcher positionality, researcher training, and offering an epistemic justification for field-based pedagogies

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1111/cag.12821
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GB Physical geography
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7163

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