Spaces in-between

Mark Luccarelli is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Oslo (Norway). He is the principal founding member of Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary International Studies (NIES) and is co-editor of Green Oslo (Ashgate 2012). He has published widely on Lewis Mumford, environment and planning, the aesthetics of landscape representation, and environmental literature in the United States.Sigurd Bergmann is Professor in Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He initiated the European Forum for the Study of Religion & the Environment. Among his many publications are God in Context (Ashgate, 2003), The Ethics of Mobilities (co-ed. Ashgate, 2008), Religion, Space and the Environment (Transaction, 2014), and Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred (co-ed. Ashgate, 2015).

• IntroductionReconsidering Environment: Spatial Contexts and the Development of the Environmental Humanities, Mark Luccarelli and Sigurd BergmannI: Lived Spaces & Political ContextsStrindberg’s Modern Ecological Subject: “Swedish Nature” Viewed From a Train, Linda Haverty RuggThe Romance of Reinhabitation: Jack London and Knut Hamsun, Peter MortensenA Cosmopolitan Sense of Place, Carmen Flys JunqueraHannah Arendt on Transcendence in the Public Sphere, Firmin DeBrabander“City Creeks: Lessons in Sustainable Environmental Discourse from a Florida Boom Town”, Thomas HallockAllotment and Community Gardens: Commons in German Cities, Werner BigellII: Reconceiving Environmental Space Natural or Political Public Space? Spaces of Interpretation, Environmentalism, and the Sacred Depth, Forrest ClingermanReconstituting the geographical place: the design of public spaces of exception in the contemporary city, Rodrigo CoelhoLiving in Bubbles: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes BergthallerConclusionMedieval Green Cities: Third Space and the Challenge of History, Mark LuccarelliContributorsIndex