| Kenneth Olwig | |
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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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Role(s) |
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 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).
Early life and education
Olwig grew up in Staten Island, New York.[1]
Olwig 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 he studied under the noted geographer 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
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]
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 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 "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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