Nancy Duncan

Landscapes of Privilege

The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 261
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415946889
• ISBN-10: 0415946883
• Artikelnr.: 21783656

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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