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Drawing from a range of examples from mental and emotional health, and using theoretical foundations from across the subject of geography, the idea of therapeutically productive landscapes and geographies will be discussed and explored. Students will consider how different cultures and paradigms have explored sites with healing reputations and potential. Student learning will focus on how specific landscapes of healing are (per)formed, (re)produced, sustained and experienced and will draw from both formal and informal healing environments. The subject will also be explored from a number of theoretical positions including phenomenology, actor-network theory, nature-culture relations and emotional geographies.
Topics to be discussed include: 1. Water, Health and Place; 2. Theory in Places of Health and Healing; 3. Geographies of Mental Health; 4. Therapeutic Landscapes: Definitions, Trends and Applications; 5. Performances of Health and Healing; 6. Narratives of Health and Healing.
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