Description
Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to case studies not previously visited within cultural geography texts.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of boxes
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Cultures and landscapes
1.1 The desire for cultural landscapes
1.2 Defining 'culture' and 'landscape'
1.3 Moving through Landscapes
Chapter 2 Changing geographical approaches to cultural landscapes
2.1 Environmental determinism
2.2 The Berkeley School of cultural geography
2.3 'New' cultural geographies
2.4 Texts, expert decoders and real landscapes
2.5 Approaching the cultural landscape
Chapter 3 Landscapes of everyday popular cultures
3.1 Defining the popular
3.2 Everyday landscapes of cultural globalisation
3.3 Everyday landscapes of national identities
3.4 Everyday landscapes of local identities and communities
3.5 Summary
3.6 Notes
Chapter 4 Landscapes of power
4.1 Landscapes of power and power of landscapes
4.2 The power of the state: lanscapes of 'nationhood'
4.3 Capital, class and the rewriting of landscapes
4.4 Race and the inscription of power
4.5 Gendered lanscapes
4.6 Intersecting powers
4.7 Summary
4.8 Notes
Chapter 5 Lanscapes of conflict and resistance
5.1 Conflicting ideologies, contested landscapes
5.2 Symbolic resistance
5.3 Overt conflicts, contested terrains
5.4 Summary
Chapter 6 Landscapes on the margin
6.1 Marginalisation and marginal landscapes
6.2 Obsolete landscapes
6.3 Landscapes of the poor
6.4 Liminal landscapes
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7 Landscapes of the body
7.1 Bodies as social constructions
7.2 Bodies as sites of resistance
7.3 Summary
Chapter 8 The role of Landscapes
8.1 Approaching landscapes
8.2 Politics of landscape
8.3 The contribution of Landscapes
