Duncan Landscapes of Privilege

The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-93927-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

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

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

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.