Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World

ISBN-13: 9780582288782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 216 str.

Winchester, Hilary P. M.

Opis

An analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes, this book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary as well as spectacular landscapes.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Winchester, Hilary P.M.