Landscape and Identity: Geographies of Nation and Class in England - Couverture rigide

Darby, Wendy Joy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1859734251 ISBN 13 : 9781859734254

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs perhaps provides the most compelling evidence of the important role landscape plays in people's lives. Not only is individual identity rooted in experiencing landscape, but under the multiple impacts of social fragmentation, global economic restructuring and European integration, membership in recreational walking groups helps recover a sense of community. Moving between the 1750s and the present, this transdisciplinary book explores the powerful role of landscape in the formation of historical class relations and national identity. The author's direct field experience of fell walking in the Lake District and with various locally based clubs includes investigation of the roles gender and race play. She shows how the politics of access to open spaces has implications beyond the immediate geographical areas considered and ultimately involves questions of citizenship.

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À propos de l?auteur

Wendy Joy Darby is an Independent Scholar.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859734251
• ISBN 13: 9781859734254
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 358
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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