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The Geophilia Society
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Gary Backhaus conducts research through
transdisciplinary/ interdisciplinary/applied phenomenology and other related qualitative orientations and methodologies. His research ranges over the human and social sciences, the humanities, and fine arts. His interest in place/space and in the geographical component in all phenomena has been nurtured through such phenomenological thinkers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edward S. Casey, Gaston Bachelard, Christian Norberg-Schulz, David Abram, David Seamon, and Robert Mugerauer, and through including environmental philosophy in his teaching. He also finds that the work of humanistic geographers such as David Ley, Anne Buttimer, and Yi-Fu Tuan to have influenced him.
Published articles/reviews that highlight or include place/space thematics are:
- “The Phenomenology of Telephone Space” 1997
- “An Incongruous Lifeworld: A Cultural Phenomenology of Tailor and Ansty” 2001
- “The Creative Imagination and the Study of Place” (book review) of Analecta Husserliana Volumes XLIV, LI, 2001
- “The Feel of the Flesh: Toward an Ontology of Music” 2001
- “The Looking-Glass Self: Self-Objectivation through the Garden” 2002
- “Auto-Mobility and the Route-Scape: A Critical Phenomenology” 2002
- Book review of Ingrid Leman Stevanovic’s Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development 2002
- “Toward a Grounding of the Geographical Conception of Therapeutic Landscapes” 2003
Gary Backhaus has served as program chair and currently serves on the executive committee for the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. He serves as Administrative Assistant for the World Phenomenology Institute. He is co-organizer for the annual
conferences at Towson University for the International Association for
the Study of Environment, Space, and Place. He teaches philosophy at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.