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Exploring John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critically engage with his work as a writer, critic, collaborator, playwright, filmmaker and artist.

The contributors connect Berger's work to cultural geography, including through a photo essay that articulates personal encounters with place, as well as discussion of his notion of “confabulation” and what it offers for writing cultural geographies. Each chapter delves into themes like Berger's interest in questions of representation, migration, ethics and the limits of political action.

Garlick and Sekulic underline Berger's enduring relevance and resonance for contemporary academic, conceptual and worldly developments. In doing so, contributors – hailing from both within and beyond the 'discipline' of geography – emphasise and celebrate the value of cross-disciplinary dialogue, collaboration, and experimentation that crosses boundaries, begets conversations, and offers novel insights into our lived worlds and their processes.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface: John Berger: A Geo-biography
Tom Overton
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Geography with John Berger
Ben Garlick (Independent Scholar, UK) and Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK)
1. Geography of the Image: 'Between Here and There'
Agata Lulkowska (University of Staffordshire, UK) with a response by Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK)
2. Confabulations: A Geography without Clauses
Joe Gerlach and Thomas Jellis (University of Bristol, UK)
3. Out of Context: Place, Transcultural Communication and John Berger
Agata Lulkowska (University of Staffordshire, UK)
4. 'A Question of Geography': John Berger and the Limits of Place
Ben Garlick (Independent Scholar, UK)
5. A Seventh Man as a Critical Spatial Praxis
Dubravka Sekulic (Royal College of Art, UK)
6. On Intellectual Generosity: John Berger's Ethics
Leila Dawney (University of Exeter, UK)
Index

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jun 11 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 176
ISBN 9781978770720
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 17 bw photos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Ben Garlick

Ben Garlick is an independent scholar and formerly…

Anthology Editor

Dubravka Sekulic

Dubravka Sekulic is Senior Tutor and Programme Lea…

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Leila Dawney

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Joe Gerlach

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Thomas Jellis

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Agata Lulkowska

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Tom Overton

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