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 Gary Backhaus -- co-organizer of the annual conferences

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.

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.

Publications in which environment, space, place is thematic.

  • Backhaus, G. 1997. The Phenomenology of Telephone Space. Human Studies 20, No.2, 203-220.

  • Backhaus, G. 2001. The Creative Imagination and the Study of Place (book review), Journal for Philosophy and Geography 4.2: (August), 239-43.

  • Backhaus, G. 2001. An Incongruous Lifeworld: A Cultural Phenomenology of Tailor and Ansty. Analecta Husserliana LXXI Kluwer Academic Publishing, 193-219.

  • Backhaus, G. 2001. The Feel of the Flesh: Towards an Ontology of Music. Analecta Husserliana LXXIII. Kluwer Academic Publishing, 145-70.

  • Backhaus, G., and John Murungi (Eds). 2002. Transformation of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography, and Architecture. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, G. 2002. Auto-Mobility and the Route-Scape: A Critical Phenomenology. Transformation of Urban and Suburban Landscapes.

  • Backhaus, G, and John Murungi. 2002. Introduction, in Transformation of Urban and Suburban Landscapes.

  • Backhaus, G. 2002. (Book Review) Safeguarding Our Common Future; Rethinking Sustainable Development. Ingrid Leman Stevanovic, in Environmental Ethics 24, 437-40.

  • Backhaus, G. 2003. The Looking-Glass Self: Self-Objectivation through the Garden. Analecta Husserliana, LXXVIII. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 181-217.

  • Backhaus, G., and John Murungi, eds. 2003. Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, G. 2003. Introduction. Tensional Landscapes, xi-xxix.

  • Backhaus, G. 2003. Vindication of the Human and Social Science of Kurt H. Wolff. Human Studies 26, No. 3, 309-35.

  • Backhaus, G. 2004. Toward a Grounding of the Geographical Conception of Therapeutic Landscapes. Analecta Husserliana, LXXIX, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Backhaus, G., and John Murungi, eds. 2004. Earth Ways: Framing Geographical Meanings. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, G. 2004. Introduction: Earth Ways: The Primordial Relation Between Ways of Knowing and the Ways of Earthly Phenomena. Earth Ways: Framing Geographical Meanings. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, G. 2004. Toward a Phenomenology of Cognitive Mapping. Earth Ways. Lexington Books.

  • Nzi iyo nsenga, François-Xavier and G. Backhaus. 2004. Toward a Geography of Material Culture and a Metaphysical Basis for a Threefold Geography. Earth Ways.

  • Backhaus, G. and John Murungi, Eds. 2005. Lived Topographies and Their Mediational Forces. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, G. 2005. Introduction. Lived Topographies.

  • Backhaus, G. and John Murungi, Eds. 2006. Ecoscapes: Geographical Patternings of Relations. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, G. 2006. An Introduction to the Conceptual Formation of Ecoscape. Ecoscapes.

  • Wolff, Carla E. 2007. Places and Continents. Edited with Commentary by G. Backhaus. The Sociology of Radical

  • Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff’s Existential Turn. Edited by Gary Backhaus and George Psathas. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, G. and John Murungi, eds. 2007. Colonial and Global Interfacings: Imperial Hegemonies and Democratizing Resistances. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Backhaus, G. 2007. Introduction: Forming the Interfacing Model. Colonial and Global Interfacings.

  • Backhaus, G. and John Murungi, eds. 2008. Symbolic Landscapes. Springer.

  • Backhaus, G. 2008. Introduction I: The Problematic of Grounding the Significance of Symbolic Landscapes. Symbolic Landscapes. Springer.

  • Backhaus, G. 2008. Introduction II: An Apology Concerning the Importance of the Geography of Imagination. Symbolic Landscapes. Springer.

  • Backhaus, G. 2008. The Philadelphia Flower Show and its Dangerous Sensibilities. Symbolic Landscapes. Springer

  • Backhaus, G. and John Murungi, eds. 2008. Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization: Socio-Political Volatility. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Backhaus, G. 2008. Introduction: The Globalization of Incommensurability as the Paramount Concern. Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization: Socio-Political Volatilities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Backhaus, G. 2008. “Foreward.” Negotiating Environmental Dilemmas: Ethical Decision Making. Robert Mugerauer and Lynne C. Manzo. Lexington Books.

  • Backhaus, Gary. 2008. Philosophy: Phenomenology/Phenomenological Geography. The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elvesier.

  • Backhaus, G., V. A. Heikkinen, Edwards Huijbens, Matti Itkonen, Paul Majkut, Jarmo Valkola. 2008. The Illuminating Traveler: Expressions of the Ineffability of the Sublime. University of Jyväskylä, Icelandic Tourism Research Centre, University of Lapland.

  • Backhaus, G. 2008. “Sublimity in Otherness: Biography as Spatial Enactment and its Pronounced Intuition through Tourism.” The Illuminating Traveler: Expressions of the Ineffability of the Sublime.