"Landscape and Englishness" (Matless, 1998)
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Landscape_and_Englishness.html?id=34oeGQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
refers to a citizen-scientist. This citizen the knowledge seeking naturalist/walker ranging the hills with guide book and map in hand (touched with a case of rationalist planner). Discovering and recovering landscape though techniques of mapping and categories of natural history. This re-enforced in the urban with ever more extensive heritage geographies, forms of natural history of the built environment.
I am a citizen scientist myself enjoying the aesthetic of guide books and maps. For a number of years as a walking guide I carried this forward as a profession. It tends towards the citizen performing science with space for radical or critical encounter/result circumscribed by the very tools that allow it.
I've been doing some work with 'spotters' recently, lorry spotters to be exact. Citizen scientists they are, very exact, precise lists of things already known or newly accounted for through the particular manner of their listing. So there is then perhaps room for manoeuvre.
Tim
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