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| − | '''Kenneth Robert Olwig''' (b. 1946) is an American landscape geographer specializing in the study of the Scandinavian landscape |
+ | '''Kenneth Robert Olwig''' (b. 1946) is an American-born landscape geographer, specializing in the study of the Scandinavian landscape. He is best known for his work on the conceptual understanding of landscape, and for advocating a "substantive" and integrated rather than critical approach to landscape. Olwig's books include ''Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic'' (2002) and ''Nature's Ideological Landscape'' (1984). |
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| + | Olwig is a professor of landscape architecture at the [[wikipedia:Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences|Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences]] in Lund, Sweden, which he joined in 2002. He commutes to the university from Copenhagen, Denmark.<ref name="lrg"/> |
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==Early life and education== |
==Early life and education== |
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| − | Olwig grew up in [[Staten Island, New York]].<ref name="lrg">{{Cite web|url=http://www.landscaperesearch.org/about/lrg-directors/kenneth-olwig/|publisher=Landscape Research Group|title=Kenneth Olwig|author=Kenneth Olwig|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> |
+ | Olwig grew up in [[Staten Island, New York]].<ref name="lrg">{{Cite web|url=http://www.landscaperesearch.org/about/lrg-directors/kenneth-olwig/|publisher=Landscape Research Group|title=Kenneth Olwig|author=Kenneth Olwig|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> He left high school early to attend [[Shimer College]], which for more than 50 years has offered an [[Early_entrance_at_Shimer_College|early entrance program]] for talented high schoolers ready to enter college early.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm|title=Early Entrant Program|publisher=Shimer College|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> He did a junior year abroad in Denmark,<ref name="lrg"/> and graduated in 1967. |
| ⚫ | For graduate school, Olwig attended the [[wikipedia:University of Minnesota|University of Minnesota]], where he completed a master's degree in Scandinavian "language, literature, history and geography" in 1971. For his doctorate, he transferred to the geography department, where his advisor was [[wikipedia:Yi-Fu Tuan|Yi-Fu Tuan]].<ref name="slu">{{Cite web|url=http://www.slu.se/kenneth_olwig_eng|title=Kenneth Olwig|publisher=Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> He completed his doctorate in 1977;<ref name="slu"/> his dissertation was titled "The morphology of a symbolic landscape : a geosophical case study of the transformation of Denmark's Jutland heaths circa 1750-1950."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/morphology-of-a-symbolic-landscape-a-geosophical-case-study-of-the-transformation-of-denmarks-jutland-heaths-circa-1750-1950/oclc/4079419&referer=brief_results|title=|work=Worldcat|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> |
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| − | Olwig left high school early to attend [[Shimer College]], which for more than 50 years has offered an [[Early_entrance_at_Shimer_College|early entrance program]] for talented high schoolers ready to enter college early.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm|title=Early Entrant Program|publisher=Shimer College|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> He did a junior year abroad in Denmark,<ref name="lrg"/> and graduated in 1967. |
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| ⚫ | For graduate school, Olwig attended the [[wikipedia:University of Minnesota|University of Minnesota]], where he completed a master's degree in Scandinavian "language, literature, history and geography" in 1971. For his doctorate, he transferred to the geography department, where |
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==Academic and research career== |
==Academic and research career== |
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| + | From 1993 to 1996, Olwig worked at the Man and Nature Humanities Research Center at [[wikipedia:Odense University|Odense University]] in Denmark, as a senior research fellow.<ref name="slu"/> He later taught at the [[wikipedia:Norwegian University of Science and Technology|University of Trondheim]] in Norway.<ref name="slu"/> |
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Olwig's ''Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic'' (2002) was assessed by [[wikipedia:Denis Cosgrove|Denis Cosgrove]] as "by far the most sustained conceptual interrogation of landscape to appear in the past two decades."{{sfn|Cosgrove|2003|p=136}} |
Olwig's ''Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic'' (2002) was assessed by [[wikipedia:Denis Cosgrove|Denis Cosgrove]] as "by far the most sustained conceptual interrogation of landscape to appear in the past two decades."{{sfn|Cosgrove|2003|p=136}} |
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| + | In January 2002, Olwig joined the faculty of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, teaching landscape theory and history.<ref name="slu"/> |
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| + | Olwig became a director of the [[Landscape Research Group]] in 2005.<ref name="lrg"/> |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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Revision as of 06:43, 13 June 2013
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Full name |
Kenneth Robert Olwig |
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Alternative names |
Kenneth R. Olwig, K.R. Olwig |
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Presence at Shimer |
–1967 |
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Presence on Earth |
1946– |
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BA |
Shimer College 1967 |
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MA |
University of Minnesota 1971 |
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Ph.D. |
University of Minnesota 1977 |
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Mount Carroll period alum |
Kenneth Olwig was a student at Shimer College during the Mount Carroll period, graduating in 1967.
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Kenneth Robert Olwig (b. 1946) is an American landscape geographer specializing in the study of the Scandinavian landscape. Since 2002, he has served as professor of landscape architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is best known for his work on the conceptual understanding of landscape, and for advocating a "substantive" and integrated rather than critical approach to landscape. Olwig's books include Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic (2002) and Nature's Ideological Landscape (1984). Olwig received his bachelor's degree from Shimer College, where he enrolled through the early entrance program, and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, where he studied under the noted geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. (from Shimer College Wiki)
Biography
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Kenneth Robert Olwig (b. 1946) is an American-born landscape geographer, specializing in the study of the Scandinavian landscape. He is best known for his work on the conceptual understanding of landscape, and for advocating a "substantive" and integrated rather than critical approach to landscape. Olwig's books include Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic (2002) and Nature's Ideological Landscape (1984).
Olwig is a professor of landscape architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Lund, Sweden, which he joined in 2002. He commutes to the university from Copenhagen, Denmark.[1]
Early life and education
Olwig grew up in Staten Island, New York.[1] He left high school early to attend Shimer College, which for more than 50 years has offered an early entrance program for talented high schoolers ready to enter college early.[2] He did a junior year abroad in Denmark,[1] and graduated in 1967.
For graduate school, Olwig attended the University of Minnesota, where he completed a master's degree in Scandinavian "language, literature, history and geography" in 1971. For his doctorate, he transferred to the geography department, where his advisor was Yi-Fu Tuan.[3] He completed his doctorate in 1977;[3] his dissertation was titled "The morphology of a symbolic landscape : a geosophical case study of the transformation of Denmark's Jutland heaths circa 1750-1950."[4]
Academic and research career
From 1993 to 1996, Olwig worked at the Man and Nature Humanities Research Center at Odense University in Denmark, as a senior research fellow.[3] He later taught at the University of Trondheim in Norway.[3]
Olwig's Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic (2002) was assessed by Denis Cosgrove as "by far the most sustained conceptual interrogation of landscape to appear in the past two decades."[5]
In January 2002, Olwig joined the faculty of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, teaching landscape theory and history.[3]
Olwig became a director of the Landscape Research Group in 2005.[1]
Works
- Nature's Ideological Landscape (1984)
- Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic (2002)
- The nature of cultural heritage and the culture of natural heritage : northern perspectives on a contested patrimony (2006, coeditor)
- Justice, power and the political landscape (2007, coeditor)
- Nordic landscapes : region and belonging on the northern edge of Europe (2008, coeditor)
Works cited
- Cosgrove, Denis (2003). "Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World by Kenneth Olwig". Geographical Review 93 (1): 136-138. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30033895.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kenneth Olwig. "Kenneth Olwig". Landscape Research Group. http://www.landscaperesearch.org/about/lrg-directors/kenneth-olwig/. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
- ↑ "Early Entrant Program". Shimer College. http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Kenneth Olwig". Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. http://www.slu.se/kenneth_olwig_eng. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
- ↑ "Template:Citation error". Worldcat. http://www.worldcat.org/title/morphology-of-a-symbolic-landscape-a-geosophical-case-study-of-the-transformation-of-denmarks-jutland-heaths-circa-1750-1950/oclc/4079419&referer=brief_results. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
- ↑ Cosgrove 2003, p. 136.
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