Landscapes of Privilege

The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-94688-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duncan, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Bedford in Context 3. The Narrative Structures: The Cultural Codes of a Landscape Aesthetic 4. Anxious Pleasures: Place-Based Identity and the Look of the Land 5. Legislating Beauty: The Politics of Exclusion 6. The Taxman Cometh: The Gift of Nature in Suburbia 7. Fabricating History: The Production of Heritage in Beford Village 8. Another Country: Latino Labor and the Politics of Disappearance 9. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

James Duncan is a University Lecturer in Geography at Cambridge University, and Nancy Duncan is Affiliated Lecturer of Geography at Cambridge University.