The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780367640156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 400 str.

Opis

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century, not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity.

Recenzje

"The remarkable volume brings together some of the most thoughtful, insightful scholars of the American landscape in a book that provides a revealing portrait into the vitality and relevance of landscape study. The book is full of thought-provoking insights into the changing American scene. It serves as a powerful reminder of why ‘reading the landscape’ is such a valuable component of efforts to understand the cultural, social, and political world we inhabit."

Alec Murphy, University of Oregon, USA.

Spis treści

Foreword: Reading the Landscape  Introduction: Twenty-first Century American Landscapes  Part I: Environmental Landscapes: The American Environment  1 Changes Across Rural America: Agricultural Landscapes  2 Fluid Landscapes  3 Energy Landscapes  4 Wastescapes  5 Public Landscapes  6 American Landscapes of Environmental Injustice  Part II: Social, Cultural, and Popular Identities in the American Landscape  7 "This is Not the America I Know": Reading the White Unseen Within the American Landscape  8 Gender, Sexuality, and Landscape  9 Ethnicity and Transnationalism  10 Interpreting the Landscapes of a New Religious America  11 The American Cinematic Landscape Inscribed @Work  12 Music and the American Landscape: Rhythms of Continuity and Change  13 Sports and the American Landscape  14 From Post-Scarcity Utopia to Zombie-Infested Hellscape: Continuity and Change in the Landscape of a Future North America Special Essay: Bridging Social and Political Landscapes: American Landscapes Under Siege: A Provocation  Part III: US Political Landscapes 15 American Imperalism 16 Iconographic Landscapes of US Borders and Immigration Controls 17 (De)constructing the Grid: The Public Land Survey System and the Production of Abstract Space in the Early Republic  18 Landscape and Politics: The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States  19 America’s Contemporary Commemorative Landscapes: Themes and Practices in Memorial Mania  20 Place (Re)Naming  21 The Landscape of Incarceration in the United States  Part IV: Urban and Economic Landscapes in the US 22 Urban Sustainability  23 The Ordinary-Extraordinary Automobile Landscape 24 Tourism in the American Landscape  25 The Changing Rural Landscape  26 Rooted in Place—Retail on the American Landscape  27 Post-Industrial Landscapes  28 Labor and the Changing Economic Landscape of the United States  Afterword