1st Edition

Landscapes Ways of Imagining the World

By Hilary P.M. Winchester Copyright 2003
    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Winchester, Hilary P.M.