Defining Wilderness—Japanese | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by MSc student Natasha Yamamoto, looks at how wilderness may be expressed and understood in Japanese.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
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.
In this chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, the author Britt Stikvoort states that the Dutch term “wildernis” is today often used for areas that are not visibly and recently touched by people.
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.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historical geographer Philippe Forêt, looks at cartographic representations and nomenclature of wilderness in French.
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.
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by Iosif Botetzagias, looks at the meaning of “wilderness” in modern Greek.