Landscape experience’s emotional value. Fondness and affective landscapes

Abstract

The paper analyses the centrality of emotional features to modern geographical thought on landscape experiences, as well as the relevance of the idea of effort and its embeddedness within processes of moral self-improvement and transformation as understood by late-modern landscape metaphysics. We reflect on the idea of “affective landscapes” in connection with contemporary changes in geographical experience and the recent retrieval of emotional values for geographical analysis.