CHAPTER 8 RENEGOTIATING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACESAnzaldua, G.(1987) The B... more CHAPTER 8 RENEGOTIATING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACESAnzaldua, G.(1987) The Borderlands/La Frontera New ... Foucault, M.(1980) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977 edited by Colin Gordon, New York ...
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1993
The crisis of representation highlighted by recent postmodern works in the social sciences has ex... more The crisis of representation highlighted by recent postmodern works in the social sciences has exposed the ethnocentric nature of (re)presentations of the world. Although it is recognised that the self-reflexivity which this project introduces has undoubtedly opened up the possibilities for more culturally sensitive work, its rejection of any notion of hierarchy could be read as precluding the deployment of political projects beyond this opening. It is the authors' contention that this need not necessarily be the case, that the postmodern challenge can be met without having to discard a political standpoint. This move is important because the power structures inherent in colonial discourses largely remain in place. Instances are explored where conflicting representations can be brought into collision so that the naturalized assumptions of hegemonic representation can be challenged. This meeting of discourses can facilitate the undermining of certain cultural assumptions in the r...
... that have preoccupied us concern individuals as en-meshed in their constraining and enablingn... more ... that have preoccupied us concern individuals as en-meshed in their constraining and enablingnetworks. ... drew on Bourdieu's 1984 empirical work on elites in France, which theorized their aestheticized lives. Like ... The Aestheticization of the Politics of Landscape Preserva-tion. ...
The aim of this dissertation is to address the classic problem of specifying the relationship bet... more The aim of this dissertation is to address the classic problem of specifying the relationship between social structures and human agency in geographical context. The greatest challenge in dealing with this problem lies in avoiding structural determinism on the one hand and individualistic ...
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This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American co... more This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American community. The research for this study focuses on the relationships among landscapes, social identity, exclusion, and the aesthetic attitudes of residents of Bedford, New York. By being thoroughly aestheticized, class relations are mystified and reduced to questions of lifestyle, consumption patterns, taste, and visual pleasure. Landscapes become possessions that play an active role in the performance of elite social identities. As such, social distinction is achieved and maintained by preserving and enhancing the beauty of places such as Bedford. This aestheticizing of place is managed through highly restrictive zoning policies for residential land and by "protecting" hundreds of acres of undeveloped land as nature preserves. This article explores the role of romantic ideology, localism, antiurbanism, antimodernism, and a class-based aesthetic in the construction of "wild" nature in these preserves. We argue that, in places such as Bedford, the celebration of localism, environmental beauty, and preservation mask the interrelatedness of issues of aesthetics and class identity on the one hand and residential land shortages in the New York metropolitan region on the other. The seemingly innocent pleasure in the aesthetic appreciation of landscapes and the desire to protect nature can act as a subtle but highly effective mechanism of social exclusion and the reaffirmation of elite class identities.
In this chapter we review the question of the relation between class and culture, first making br... more In this chapter we review the question of the relation between class and culture, first making brief reference to key texts in social and cultural theory. We then look at some of the more general statements on class in the geographical literature, with special attention to cultural ...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1996
The article by Don Mitchell (1995) should be seen as a valuable elaboration and refinement of the... more The article by Don Mitchell (1995) should be seen as a valuable elaboration and refinement of the culture concept in the'new cultural geography'. It is a fine statement of the dangers of reifying culture on the part of geographers who may be tempted to use it as an explanatory ...
Abstract Landscapes are produced and maintained in ways that are largely unseen by those who happ... more Abstract Landscapes are produced and maintained in ways that are largely unseen by those who happen to drive past, admiring the beauty of the landscape. Deeply embedded in the landscape are human costs invisible to the eye. In this paper we investigate some of the ...
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1988
Abstract (Re) reading the landscape J Duncan, N Duncan Received 21 September 1987; in revised for... more Abstract (Re) reading the landscape J Duncan, N Duncan Received 21 September 1987; in revised form 30 November 1987 Abstract. Insights from literary theory are applied to the analysis of landscapes. It is suggested that the concepts of textuality, intertextuality, and ...
... 2 On third space and'in-between spaces' also see Bhabha (1994 ... the future be sai... more ... 2 On third space and'in-between spaces' also see Bhabha (1994 ... the future be said, philosophy began to discover that its categories of reason and knowledge are marked by sexual difference. ... theory has inserted into the critical project of our era is the sexually specific body, as a ...
What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one ... more What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one of the central concepts in Anglo-American geography? This chapter addresses these questions as it traces various geographical approaches to landscape research. We look at ...
What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one ... more What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one of the central concepts in Anglo-American geography? This chapter addresses these questions as it traces various geographical approaches to landscape research. We look at ...
45 Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape* James S. Duncan and ... more 45 Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape* James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan * Source: Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan (eds)(1992) Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape, Routledge. ...
Annals of The Association of American Geographers, 2001
This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American co... more This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American community. The research for this study focuses on the relationships among landscapes, social identity, exclusion, and the aesthetic attitudes of residents of Bedford, New York. By being thoroughly aestheticized, class relations are mystified and reduced to questions of lifestyle, consumption patterns, taste, and visual pleasure. Landscapes become possessions that play an active role in the performance of elite social identities. As such, social distinction is achieved and maintained by preserving and enhancing the beauty of places such as Bedford. This aestheticizing of place is managed through highly restrictive zoning policies for residential land and by "protecting" hundreds of acres of undeveloped land as nature preserves. This article explores the role of romantic ideology, localism, antiurbanism, antimodernism, and a class-based aesthetic in the construction of "wild" nature in these preserves. We argue that, in places such as Bedford, the celebration of localism, environmental beauty, and preservation mask the interrelatedness of issues of aesthetics and class identity on the one hand and residential land shortages in the New York metropolitan region on the other. The seemingly innocent pleasure in the aesthetic appreciation of landscapes and the desire to protect nature can act as a subtle but highly effective mechanism of social exclusion and the reaffirmation of elite class identities.
Page 1. Introduction: political uses and abuses of the culture concept The key concept of culture... more Page 1. Introduction: political uses and abuses of the culture concept The key concept of culture has recently been undergoing critical reassessment, and in some cases replacement, by cultural theorists in a number of fields. ...
CHAPTER 8 RENEGOTIATING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACESAnzaldua, G.(1987) The B... more CHAPTER 8 RENEGOTIATING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACESAnzaldua, G.(1987) The Borderlands/La Frontera New ... Foucault, M.(1980) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977 edited by Colin Gordon, New York ...
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1993
The crisis of representation highlighted by recent postmodern works in the social sciences has ex... more The crisis of representation highlighted by recent postmodern works in the social sciences has exposed the ethnocentric nature of (re)presentations of the world. Although it is recognised that the self-reflexivity which this project introduces has undoubtedly opened up the possibilities for more culturally sensitive work, its rejection of any notion of hierarchy could be read as precluding the deployment of political projects beyond this opening. It is the authors' contention that this need not necessarily be the case, that the postmodern challenge can be met without having to discard a political standpoint. This move is important because the power structures inherent in colonial discourses largely remain in place. Instances are explored where conflicting representations can be brought into collision so that the naturalized assumptions of hegemonic representation can be challenged. This meeting of discourses can facilitate the undermining of certain cultural assumptions in the r...
... that have preoccupied us concern individuals as en-meshed in their constraining and enablingn... more ... that have preoccupied us concern individuals as en-meshed in their constraining and enablingnetworks. ... drew on Bourdieu's 1984 empirical work on elites in France, which theorized their aestheticized lives. Like ... The Aestheticization of the Politics of Landscape Preserva-tion. ...
The aim of this dissertation is to address the classic problem of specifying the relationship bet... more The aim of this dissertation is to address the classic problem of specifying the relationship between social structures and human agency in geographical context. The greatest challenge in dealing with this problem lies in avoiding structural determinism on the one hand and individualistic ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1111 0004 5608 00250, Mar 15, 2010
This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American co... more This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American community. The research for this study focuses on the relationships among landscapes, social identity, exclusion, and the aesthetic attitudes of residents of Bedford, New York. By being thoroughly aestheticized, class relations are mystified and reduced to questions of lifestyle, consumption patterns, taste, and visual pleasure. Landscapes become possessions that play an active role in the performance of elite social identities. As such, social distinction is achieved and maintained by preserving and enhancing the beauty of places such as Bedford. This aestheticizing of place is managed through highly restrictive zoning policies for residential land and by "protecting" hundreds of acres of undeveloped land as nature preserves. This article explores the role of romantic ideology, localism, antiurbanism, antimodernism, and a class-based aesthetic in the construction of "wild" nature in these preserves. We argue that, in places such as Bedford, the celebration of localism, environmental beauty, and preservation mask the interrelatedness of issues of aesthetics and class identity on the one hand and residential land shortages in the New York metropolitan region on the other. The seemingly innocent pleasure in the aesthetic appreciation of landscapes and the desire to protect nature can act as a subtle but highly effective mechanism of social exclusion and the reaffirmation of elite class identities.
In this chapter we review the question of the relation between class and culture, first making br... more In this chapter we review the question of the relation between class and culture, first making brief reference to key texts in social and cultural theory. We then look at some of the more general statements on class in the geographical literature, with special attention to cultural ...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1996
The article by Don Mitchell (1995) should be seen as a valuable elaboration and refinement of the... more The article by Don Mitchell (1995) should be seen as a valuable elaboration and refinement of the culture concept in the'new cultural geography'. It is a fine statement of the dangers of reifying culture on the part of geographers who may be tempted to use it as an explanatory ...
Abstract Landscapes are produced and maintained in ways that are largely unseen by those who happ... more Abstract Landscapes are produced and maintained in ways that are largely unseen by those who happen to drive past, admiring the beauty of the landscape. Deeply embedded in the landscape are human costs invisible to the eye. In this paper we investigate some of the ...
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1988
Abstract (Re) reading the landscape J Duncan, N Duncan Received 21 September 1987; in revised for... more Abstract (Re) reading the landscape J Duncan, N Duncan Received 21 September 1987; in revised form 30 November 1987 Abstract. Insights from literary theory are applied to the analysis of landscapes. It is suggested that the concepts of textuality, intertextuality, and ...
... 2 On third space and'in-between spaces' also see Bhabha (1994 ... the future be sai... more ... 2 On third space and'in-between spaces' also see Bhabha (1994 ... the future be said, philosophy began to discover that its categories of reason and knowledge are marked by sexual difference. ... theory has inserted into the critical project of our era is the sexually specific body, as a ...
What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one ... more What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one of the central concepts in Anglo-American geography? This chapter addresses these questions as it traces various geographical approaches to landscape research. We look at ...
What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one ... more What's so important about landscape? How has it survived over the last hundred years as one of the central concepts in Anglo-American geography? This chapter addresses these questions as it traces various geographical approaches to landscape research. We look at ...
45 Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape* James S. Duncan and ... more 45 Ideology and Bliss: Roland Barthes and the Secret Histories of Landscape* James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan * Source: Trevor J. Barnes and James S. Duncan (eds)(1992) Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape, Routledge. ...
Annals of The Association of American Geographers, 2001
This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American co... more This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American community. The research for this study focuses on the relationships among landscapes, social identity, exclusion, and the aesthetic attitudes of residents of Bedford, New York. By being thoroughly aestheticized, class relations are mystified and reduced to questions of lifestyle, consumption patterns, taste, and visual pleasure. Landscapes become possessions that play an active role in the performance of elite social identities. As such, social distinction is achieved and maintained by preserving and enhancing the beauty of places such as Bedford. This aestheticizing of place is managed through highly restrictive zoning policies for residential land and by "protecting" hundreds of acres of undeveloped land as nature preserves. This article explores the role of romantic ideology, localism, antiurbanism, antimodernism, and a class-based aesthetic in the construction of "wild" nature in these preserves. We argue that, in places such as Bedford, the celebration of localism, environmental beauty, and preservation mask the interrelatedness of issues of aesthetics and class identity on the one hand and residential land shortages in the New York metropolitan region on the other. The seemingly innocent pleasure in the aesthetic appreciation of landscapes and the desire to protect nature can act as a subtle but highly effective mechanism of social exclusion and the reaffirmation of elite class identities.
Page 1. Introduction: political uses and abuses of the culture concept The key concept of culture... more Page 1. Introduction: political uses and abuses of the culture concept The key concept of culture has recently been undergoing critical reassessment, and in some cases replacement, by cultural theorists in a number of fields. ...
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