Paper short abstract:

Since its emergence, the concept of landscape has spread so widely that it has become virtually synonymous with nature. Recently, new approaches have renewed interest in it, especially based on developments in the field of Anthropology, which opens up perspectives that can be particularly productive

Paper long abstract:

The origin of the idea of landscape has been most commonly associated with a pictorial genre in which the representation of nature acquired an aesthetic meaning. In addition to its developments in art history, the term became key to geographical thought, was read from political and sociological perspectives, caught the attention of philosophers, especially in the area of phenomenology, and was the object of literary studies related to descriptive writing and to the relationships between nature, subjectivity and memory. In recent decades, Anthropology has become one of the most productive fields for adding to the concept, based on the contributions of researchers such as Tim Ingold, Philippe Descola, Eric Hirsch and Christopher Tilley. Their work has allowed environmental humanities to problematize traditional approaches to the concept, going far beyond the field of representation to allow the incorporation of the dimensions of experience, perception and agency. From then on, it’s possible to pay more attention to aspects such as: the centrality of emotional motivations in the subjects’ engagement with the environment; the somatic culture involved in the pleasures and displeasures of the environment; the structure of feelings involved in the enjoyment of nature; the subjects' point of view in relation to their own physical location in a landscape produced through everyday practices in living and working spaces.