Salvatge, verge, erm, and silvestre—Catalan | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by master’s student Luis Fernández Fernández, highlights different adjectives that are used in Catalan to describe wilderness.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by master’s student Luis Fernández Fernández, highlights different adjectives that are used in Catalan to describe wilderness.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by geographer Bill Adams, looks at the history of modern British interpretations of “wilderness.”
This chapter in the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by Raymond Chipeniuk, shows that in many cultures the idea of wilderness has been borrowed from the English-speaking world.
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
The German term Wildnis, as is demonstrated in this part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition by historian Patrick Kupper, has always referred to places of difference, distinct by their very separation from society’s cultivated spaces.
The chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Unnur Karlsdóttir, analyzes the Icelandic notion of wilderness which refers to the natural landscape as a space, as a visual experience, sublime and aesthetic.